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Dataviz | Information Design The person behind The Dataviz Bookshelf, The Data Design Manifesto & The Design Matters newsletter series. I don't use autocorrect. I own all of my typos. https://www.datarocks.co.nz
This is likely an AI-first approach to recruiting, where the LLM wrote the job description using the usual verbose word salad, without really saying anything meaningful.
Yay! Aotearoa NZ Birbs!
These are all marvellous pics.
A reminder that we are adding a new course to the Open Visualization Academy per month. We'll release 'The Craft of Building Stories with Data' by @chartwaali.bsky.social TOMORROW.
(We have 12+ courses at different stages of production!)
#dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism
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.
Meme using a scene from the movie Jaws, where the original dialogue would be "We're gonna need a bigger boat". The meme text reads "We're gonna need a smaller violin".
A female kΔkΔpΕ looking out of a nest, with one small chick showing. Credit: Andrew Digby
Female #kakapo Kohengi on her nest with a newly-hatched chick and an egg (unseen). We removed the egg from underneath her and gave it to another female (Phoenix) who had infertile eggs. We're trying to ensure each female on Anchor Island has 1-2 fertile eggs to hatch. #kakapo2026 #conservation
I have had my Kobo for several months now. Very happy in general. I had an age-old kindle that got replaced after it basically died of old age (it still has a physical keyboard and is black and white only, that's how old lol). If you have questions about specific features, just ask! :)
If you want, you can sign up to the Kobo store, but I haven't done that yet. You can also use Libby and borrow books from a library. Although I only learned after setting it all up that Libby on Kobo, for some stupid reason, only let you use 1 library from Libby at a time. Silly. Very silly.
I did not get the stylus version. The Kobo stylus is ridiculously overpriced. You can get any Surface compatible cheaper stylus and it works just fine. It is fun to annotate, highlight, and make notes in it. Decent feedback and speed. You can sync book notes back to Caliber with KoboUtilities.
Happy user of a Kobo Libra Colour here! Calibre is a must, as is the plugin KoboUtilities within Caliber. Once you have that, you can load whatever e-books and formats you have. Word of caution on PDFs though. I figured converting them to .cbr or .cbz files works best.
Glad to hear she's getting better Ben! Wishing you an ever increasing number of good days from here on. β€οΈ
In the Open Visualization Academy newsletter: Friends of the OVA, Episode 3, a conversation with @moritzstefaner.bsky.social about his recent State of Neuroscience project openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/truth-beau...
#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
The AI critics have, once again, been right about everything www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/t...
You probably have seen the party parrot before! Sirocco is world famous!
youtu.be/9T1vfsHYiKY
I saw a #kakapo hatch!
I saw a #kakapo hatch!
I saw a #kakapo hatch!
And now it squeaks like the world's tiniest kazoo and I'm here for it!
Did you know you can see highlights from our #kakapo nestcam: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...? In the last 24 hours we've seen a chick hatch and a rare short-tailed bat flying - and walking - around the nest. Exciting to see things never seen before! #conservation #kakapo2026
The live cam is a staple on my second monitor all day and this is one chirpy chatty little chick!
It's too much cuteness to miss.
If you're watching our live #kakapo webcam: an egg near to hatching (Vori-A1-2026) will be put into the next in the next 10 mins. Keep watching over the coming hours/days to hopefully see a chick hatch! #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots www.youtube.com/live/BfGL7A2...
Sharing some Open Visualization Academy (openvisualizationacademy.org) access numbers: Since we launched, less than a month ago, more than 1,600 people have signed up for it, even if there's no need to do so to watch any of the courses 1/x
#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #visualization
Turning 40 today.
My cats sum it up nicely.
Often I think we should all just try to make "Slow down! Fix things!" the next big motto.
Two young kΔkΔpΕ chicks being held during a health check. Credit: Lydia Uddstrom.
The #kakapo chicks are coming thick and fast! We're now up to 10 hatched. Here are Tiwhiri-A1 and Tiwhiri-A2 receiving a health check at Yasmine's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. πΈ: Lydia Uddstrom #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #parrots
Yay! Welcome!!
The #dataviz community is growing here. It's one of the few remaining good online places to be as of now.
Cover of a book named Feathers of Aotearoa: an illustrated journal by author Niels Meyer-Westfield. The cover shows several hand drawn illustrations of feather from New Zealand birds.
Early 40th birthday gift.
I'm a very happy kid βΊοΈ
I am off for the next few days (my birthday is on the 23), but I'll see what more data I can find and post when I do! :)
I guess the biggest contributing factor missing there, which is more just because the dataset itself focuses on sheep rather than animals in general, is the rapid rise and focus on the dairy industry since the 1990. Today we have more cows than sheep here, and that's the other side of this story.
Fun little game!
Also, one of the colours was an unfair advantage as it was very similar to my logo's background colour, which I stared at for hours tweaking before.
dialed.gg
