Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com
11.03.2026 02:14
👍 553
🔁 185
💬 5
📌 22
Minesweeper but it's the Strait of Hormuz. Source: sweepthestrait.com
when the lines in your shirt make the camera hurt, that's a moiré
Stack of tiny art cards showing U.S. state maps drawn with dot patterns, promoting “The Dormidots Tiny Atlas of the United States,” a set of 51 ACEO prints launching March 8.
From my sketchbook to your map collection: ✨ The Dormidots Tiny Atlas of the United States ✨
This series features 51 Dormidots ACEO map prints — all 📍50 states plus Washington, DC.
Launching March 8. www.studio6101.com
Or on Instagram @studio.6101
www.instagram.com/p/DVlwQ1eDX8...
I raise
Great insight about marriages in Spain by @pablogguz_! In 1976 over 99% of first marriages in Spain were Catholic. By 2024 the number of marriages has halved and about three in four marriages are now Civil. The country turned its back to religion and the institution of marriage.
Color map showing population density from Administrativ-Statistischer Atlas vom Preussischen Staate. It is the first known color choropleth.
YES! After a few hours searching, I finally dug up a high-quality scan of the first (known) color choropleth. From haab-digital.klassik-stiftung.de/viewer/fulls...
Thanks to @datavisfriendly.bsky.social & @infowetrust.com who helped with the search.
#cartography #maps #dataviz
Maps with hatchings in different colors and directions.
#wip
Scavi (excavations) by Karen Knorr. More: www.danzigergallery.com/exhibitions/...
One brillant idea here is to combine the inputs and outputs in the middle instead of trying to connect precisely the sources and destinations, creating an unreadable spaghetti.
Each page has a facing overview in four languages. Google translate is great for details.
Most of the recent examples already given are terrific charting, but not good at focusing on the human cost of
violence.
For that I recommend section VI of THE SACRIFICES OF GREECE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, titled "The sufferings of the inhabitants."
www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
I somehow missed this acquisition. The original flowmap. Likely directly inspired Minard during his tour of British rail systems. Look at those rich textures!
Henry Drury Harness, IRISH RAILWAY COMMISSION, 1838 www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet...
We enjoy making coloring pages for each other. One of us does the line work, the other does the fills. cc: @nsousanis.bsky.social
It's something like: Can you draw a rectangle? Great, you can draw Optimus Prime.
Yes, I have also gotten sucked into drawing bots. For example:
breakfast-table diagrams drawn while I packed lunch this morning
Front cover of CO2 Newsletter Vol 1 no 4, April 1980
Vol. 1, no.4 of the CO2 Newsletter, first published in April 1980 (that's not a typo) is now downloadable. Founded by American geologist William Barbat, each was 8 pages of excerpts from recent reports, editorials and deeply researched articles.
1/9
allouryesterdays.info/2026/03/01/t...
I explored doing a fat-composition inset chart in FOOD ENERGY. Determined it was too messy for the poster, but I'm still interested in the topic. visionarypress.com/products/foo...
“We probably could have figured this out sooner if we just asked how much money machines spend on discretionary goods. (Hint: it’s zero.)” … “Swaths of companies built on monetizing friction for humans disintegrated.” … “Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on those constraints persisting.” … “Turns out that a lot of what people called relationships was simply friction with a friendly face.” … “The businesses and jobs that AI was chewing up were not tangential to the US economy, they were the US economy.” … “A daisy chain of correlated bets on white collar productivity growth” … “The federal government’s revenue base is essentially a tax on human time." … “The Intelligence Premium Unwind” … “The canary is still alive.”
My favorite zingers from www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic (has @joshgans.bsky.social commented yet?)
Last night I shared my obsession for beautiful data graphics at @abaararebooks.bsky.social SF Book Fair. One of the sharpest audiences I've ever presented to.
RJ acquires another historic chart.
🤘
Thank you for writing this book, RJ! I appreciate your attention to detail; it made me smile more than once. :)
These visual breakdowns of everyday objects by Bryan Macomber are super satisfying mechanical-pencil.com
"An illustrated celebration of the engineering around us"
This is @garrykasparov.bsky.social versus Deep Blue (game 2). Explore and interact with other games here:
moebio.com/chess/
(including fast Hikaru versus Magnus, longest, shortest and oldest games ever!)
It’s nice to see different plotted alongside the original and updated data. It’s extremely difficult to discern the distance between two curves (we tend to perceive the maximum distance, not the vertical distance).
Future Books Volume I (1946) has been added to the Isotype Explorer, bringing our total to 140 classic pictorial-statistics figures. See them here: isotype.infowetrust.com#/?sort=oldes...
I made an animated version of the multivariate global income inequality diagram shared by @infowetrust.com
Mostly up and to the right, especially China, with Africa left behind.
Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/the-geomet...
Original: jackblun.github.io/Globalinc/ht...
About to go live chatting inequality with @jeremybney.bsky.social open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Me too! I generally believe stereograms deserve revival. See: www.chartography.net/p/the-stereo...
The graphic comparison at the heart of inequality—us versus them, rich and poor, haves and have-nots—feels older than money itself. The forms will keep changing. The comparison will not.
Read my latest for Chartography: www.chartography.net/p/the-geomet...
