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Gregor Aisch

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Senior Visual Data Journalist at @zeit.de. Co-founder and former CTO of @datawrapper.de. Former @nytimes.com graphics editor #datajournalism #graphics #maps #cartography #dataviz (he/him)

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There's been about a 10-point increase in support for attacking Iran since Feb 23, according to YouGov. That's driven entirely by Republicans rallying around Trump

06.03.2026 13:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 292 ๐Ÿ” 55 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36 ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

Second reason is that I wanted to fully control the player UI, autoplay, the scrub bar, overlays etc. With standard players like YouTube youโ€™re limited in that regard.

04.03.2026 16:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wanted to be able to adjust the video crop last-minute (without re-rendering), so I didnโ€™t want to bake the timestamps into the frames. And I had just built a custom video player for a separate project - with support for HTML subtitles - so this was a nice use case.

04.03.2026 16:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And when I say "I", I mean: me with a little help from AI agents.

Don't really know what ownership means these days, as it feels like someone else is doing the hard work. So thanks to all the open-source contributors whose code made it into the LLM training data, I guess ๐Ÿ’š

04.03.2026 11:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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StraรŸe von Hormus: So legt der Krieg die StraรŸe von Hormus lahm Seit Samstag droht der Iran damit, Schiffe anzugreifen, die die StraรŸe von Hormus passieren. Sehen Sie hier, welche Folgen das fรผr den Verkehr in der Meerenge hat.

I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com.

Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte.

๐ŸŽ www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

04.03.2026 11:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 71 ๐Ÿ” 26 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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Trump helps MAGA influencers flee Middle East war zone on private jet Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz, dogwalker Sarah Daither, former lobbyist Jay Footlik, and others managed to escape on a private plane thanks to the White House.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

04.03.2026 01:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 3820 ๐Ÿ” 2480 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 336 ๐Ÿ“Œ 557

Of course, solid showing of the "you must never truncate your y-axis" fraction in the comment section of our article ๐Ÿ˜„

02.03.2026 18:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the ZEIT homepage on Monday, March 2. It features a line chart showing the surge of intraday crude oil price following the attacks on Iran.

Screenshot of the ZEIT homepage on Monday, March 2. It features a line chart showing the surge of intraday crude oil price following the attacks on Iran.

Screenshot of the ZEIT homepage on Monday, March 2. It features a line chart showing the surge of intraday crude oil price following the attacks on Iran.

Screenshot of the ZEIT homepage on Monday, March 2. It features a line chart showing the surge of intraday crude oil price following the attacks on Iran.

๐Ÿ“ˆ SveltePlot is on the DIE ZEIT homepage again! www.zeit.de/index

02.03.2026 07:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Iโ€™ve drawn a newspaper, and itโ€™s called โ€˜The Daily Newsโ€™ and the headline says โ€œ For Fuckโ€™s Sake, What Now?!โ€™ and thereโ€™s an article below it with a picture of a guy in a big red tie and shit hair. Actually a pretty good drawing of a newspaper to be honest, really happy with it. Its got an imperceptible beige to it and I even did some nice shadows and everything. Nailed it.

Iโ€™ve drawn a newspaper, and itโ€™s called โ€˜The Daily Newsโ€™ and the headline says โ€œ For Fuckโ€™s Sake, What Now?!โ€™ and thereโ€™s an article below it with a picture of a guy in a big red tie and shit hair. Actually a pretty good drawing of a newspaper to be honest, really happy with it. Its got an imperceptible beige to it and I even did some nice shadows and everything. Nailed it.

28.02.2026 20:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 50 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Today's episode in the series of beautiful maps

27.02.2026 08:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Ah, ja das ist genau das Video was ich gern in dem Artikel gehabt hรคtte. Schade dass es nicht verlinkt war. Aber das schaffen wir bestimmt auch noch ๐Ÿ˜…

22.02.2026 09:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A graph of the timeline of Trumpโ€™s second term trade war

A graph of the timeline of Trumpโ€™s second term trade war

The President responded to yesterdayโ€™s SCOTUS ruling that his IEEPA tariffs were illegal with new 10% tariffs based Section 122, yet that still left a net ~3 percentage point reduction in average tariff rates. Tariffs on imports from countries like Brazil or Vietnam were reduced significantly.

21.02.2026 19:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 188 ๐Ÿ” 31 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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The Supreme Court Ruled Against Trump's Tariffs. Now What? Charting the Impact of the Supreme Court Ruling and What Comes Next

NEW from me:

Yesterdayโ€™s Supreme Court ruling was the largest pushback on Trumpโ€™s trade war

Even though Trump imposed a new 10% tariff, it resulted in a 3% reduction in overall tariff rates, a large restriction in his tariff powers, and possibly >$150B in refunds๐Ÿงต
www.apricitas.io/p/the-suprem...

21.02.2026 19:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 324 ๐Ÿ” 79 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8
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Problem mit Briefkastenfirmen: Zossen muss Millionen an Gewerbesteuereinnahmen zurรผckzahlen 150 Unternehmen in einem kleinen Gewerbehaus โ€“ kann das sein? Die Stadt Zossen scheint ein Problem mit Briefkastenfirmen zu haben und muss nun Millionen an Gewerbesteuereinnahmen zurรผckzahlen.

From
@fragdenstaat.de und @zdfmagaz.in
with LOVE!

www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/bran...

21.02.2026 14:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 786 ๐Ÿ” 177 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
Merkel beim CDU-Parteitag: Rรผckkehr auf die politische Bรผhne | AFP
Merkel beim CDU-Parteitag: Rรผckkehr auf die politische Bรผhne | AFP YouTube video by AFP Deutsch

Fรผr alle, denen es geht, wie mir: Hier hab ich dieses Video von AFP gefunden. Wird leider schon bei Merz' erstem Unterbrechungsversuch abgeschnitten. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Vq...

21.02.2026 14:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sowohl SPIEGEL als auch ZEIT berichten รผber den Merkel-Besuch beim CDU-Parteitag. Dass Merz der Applaus zu lange gedauert hรคtte. Was ich als Leser jetzt vor allem sehen will: den Applaus in seiner vollen Lรคnge. #Video ist leider noch nicht angekommen im deutschen Journalismus.

21.02.2026 14:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Live Updates: Supreme Court Strikes Down Trumpโ€™s Sweeping Tariffs

And there it is

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

20.02.2026 16:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 606 ๐Ÿ” 72 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 24 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Talk submissions for posit::conf(2026) close this Friday! So youโ€™ve still got a few days to tell your awesome story ๐Ÿ˜€ pos.it/conf-talk-2026

19.02.2026 16:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous: Semantic Ablation. โ€œThe AI identifies high-entropy clusters โ€” the precise points where unique insightsโ€ฆreside โ€” and systematically replaces them with the most probable, generic token sequences.โ€ [theregister.com]

17.02.2026 19:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 45 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Gallup Will No Longer Track Presidential Approval Ratings The monthly poll has been used to measure presidential performance for almost nine decades.

After nearly 90 years, the Gallup Organization will no longer track presidential approval ratings.

12.02.2026 03:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 121 ๐Ÿ” 53 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 71 ๐Ÿ“Œ 28
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paulโ€”an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

11.02.2026 16:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 11391 ๐Ÿ” 6556 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 274 ๐Ÿ“Œ 625

Da wรผrde ich so pauschal jetzt erstmal ein groรŸes Fragezeichen ranmachen. Das TV-Formate im ร–RR auch privatwirtschaftlich produziert werden ist doch nichts Neues und an sich doch auch รผberhaupt kein Problem. Ob man die einzelnen Produktionen mag oder nicht, ist natรผrlich eine andere Sache.

08.02.2026 10:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@driven-by-data.net's SveltePlot is such a fun data visualization library. I was able to prototype this basketball shot app in an afternoon.

07.02.2026 18:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Some contextโ€ฆ Bezos is killing the Post by choice, not by necessityโ€ฆ

04.02.2026 19:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 1471 ๐Ÿ” 564 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72 ๐Ÿ“Œ 27

Youโ€™re welcome ๐Ÿ™‚

06.02.2026 08:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
SveltePlot - SveltePlot The best visualizations are built with <span>Svelte.</span>

SveltePlot is such a gem. Especially as a person who is not that into data viz. It makes it so easy to! Thank you @driven-by-data.net ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

svelteplot.dev

04.02.2026 15:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐ŸŒถ๏ธ take from @kevinak.se in this weeks Svelte Radio episode. What do you think? Are we all ๐Ÿž?

04.02.2026 10:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You can ignore science, but science will never ignore you.

Measles incidence in the United States.

28.01.2026 01:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 459 ๐Ÿ” 159 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17 ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
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Die groรŸartige @mariettaslomka.bsky.social, die seit 25 Jahren das โ€žheute-journalโ€œ moderiert, in der SZ รผber kritische Fragen an Politikerยทinnen:

22.01.2026 17:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 773 ๐Ÿ” 185 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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The power of data visualisation, with Andy Kirk The King of Data Viz ๐Ÿ‘‘ spoke to me about high impact design, 'hidden thinking,' and how to get started with the craft of making data beautiful

I've put the full episode up in video form which is even better because it includes visuals of charts we talk about.

It's a handy explainer for people curious about the whole idea of data viz and potentially wanting to get started with it themselves.

georginasturge.substack.com/p/the-power-...

13.01.2026 08:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0