Alberto Cairo

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

Screenshot of Gurman Bhatia's course

In the Open Visualization Academy:

NEW COURSE: The Craft of Building Stories with Data, by @chartwaali.bsky.social: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/the-...

Newsletter: Open Source Fuels the Future of Visualization (P.4 4) by Melissa Strong: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/how-open-s...

My uncle was an early IT entrepreneur. I remember him telling me in the 1990s that programming was not going to be a career for much longer because of progress in no-code software design tools. Yes, that was 40 years ago.

It feels good not to be alone

Show me better than this. Ann Marie Redfield: General view of the animal kingdom, 1857. More here attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/connections

Yep!

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn how to build stories with data. Plus, the course is, like all courses on the platform, for free. 3:30h worse to spend.

#measure #analytics

Good essay: "The AI hype reminds me of earlier breakthroughs in low and no-code tooling. I don’t doubt that AI can be a useful tool [...] But these arguments always leave me thinking about the accidental and essential complexity again."

Pay close attention to the sections about friction and care:

It's a fantastic course!!!

Screenshot of Gurman Bhatia's course

In the Open Visualization Academy:

NEW COURSE: The Craft of Building Stories with Data, by @chartwaali.bsky.social: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/the-...

Newsletter: Open Source Fuels the Future of Visualization (P.4 4) by Melissa Strong: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/how-open-s...

History of Philosophy - Summarized & Visualized An interactive summary of the history of philosophy showing the dis/agreement relationships between ideas

Deniz Cem Önduygu’s project tracking the conceptual connections between philosophers he reads is fantastic www.denizcemonduygu.com/philo/

Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

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

Christ ProPublica does good work.

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

Among the many problems I have with grifters like Benjamin Ryan or Jesse Singal is that they never explain why must keep questioning trans people about who they are, but we shouldn't do the same with cisgender people. The answer is obvious: In their minds, cis is normal & desirable, and trans isn't.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Moreover, it takes some serious cluelessness to say that *at Yale*

Reading that Buckley was a “philosopher” or that he was part of a tradition of “moderate” U.S. conservatism made me chuckle.

This is a great find!
1828-- Not long after Dupin published his first b/w choropleth (1826)
The use of color is subtle; uses what looks like a nice color ramp, but actually colored patterns. Great detail shown
I never heard of the cartographer -- F. von Doring

This:

I've now printed and shipped over 20,000 whistles, sent across the country to groups that need em. That's 20,000 off a single 3d printer that has basically run continuously in my basement since about mid-January. The crew I print with has sent out over 1M now, and we can send to you too. toot.supply

Cool

A short article explaining the vision for the Open Visualization Academy:

A short article explaining the vision for the Open Visualization Academy:

Visualization Bluesky, do your thing... #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism

Data/design folks, what is your favorite visual that focuses on the human cost of violence, tragedies and disasters? The most emotionally impactful visualization? The most visually striking?

Please share! I'd like to get as many examples as possible.

Speaker applications extended! Apply by March 8, 2026

📢 Outlier 2026 speaker applications have been extended to March 8. We want to hear from you! We're also looking for more interactive talks and workshops. Apply now: www.datavisualizationsociety.org/outlier-spea...

1) within any marginalized group, members will disagree & some individuals may espouse views that others find somewhat off-base or extreme 2) if you're a cis person whose entry point into a particular trans discourse is to amplify Jesse Singal & Noah Smith HotTakes™ about it, WTF is wrong with you?!

Since it seems like we're on newspaper opinion section discourse again: They are a vestigial limb of a time that's long over. Opinion is *everywhere* now, the water we all swim in. And, frankly, we've become so media illiterate now that opinion's existence does lasting harm to the reporting work.