Ahmad Barclay

Screenshot of the Open Visualization Academy's website, showcasing our logo and all courses available tomorrow

The Open Visualization Academy launches TOMORROW MORNING (EST) openvisualizationacademy.org with 7 courses; we'll release 1-2 more/month beginning in February.

Sneak peek at our website, designed by @vsueiro.bsky.social and Melissa Strong #dataViz #dataVisualization #infographics #dataJournalism

Tonight Maccabi Tel Aviv Ultras viciously attacked a Palestinian owned car washing business in Tel Aviv, shouting "death to the Arabs" as the police looked by

🌎 Today, I'm happy to release "First Basemap," a free tutorial that shares one of our most valuable recent innovations at Reuters. https://palewi.re/docs/first-basemap/

A picture is worth 1000 words...

This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.

Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.

Chapeau!

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026

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Wonderful article, just lovely.

Gaza: The Reckoning The debate on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide is now closed, and has been closed for a while.

"The important question is not whether a genocide has been taking place in Gaza, but how it happened and how it was allowed to happen."

brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaza-the-r...

@brunomacaes.bsky.social

I'm struggling here, but I _think_ they're trying to say parking is £1 per hour #Fareham

Vase on a potter's wheel with a shape approximating the deprivation profile of Tamworth (stock image)

Would love to see each of these recreated as a vase on a potter's wheel. Here's my entry for Tamworth...

Mondoweiss exists because 🇵🇸 voices can't wait for the New York Times to get it right. #GivingTuesday

This work pisses off a lot of people (mostly Zionists) & gets us banned from platforms. It also costs money.

Support our work here 👇👇👇
mondoweiss.net/donate?sourc...

And Ireland is all just wet regardless of elevation😭

Hanging ivy pot plant attached to Edward Tufte's book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"

Hanging ivy pot plant attached to Edward Tufte's book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"

Hanging ivy pot plant attached to Edward Tufte's book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"

This hanging ivy isn't supposed to cling to anything, but for some reason it's taken an interest in my copy of Edward Tufte's #DataViz classic "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"

I have hazy memories of sitting listening to the radio in my PJs praying for a day off... But I'm pretty sure my inner city primary in Norwich was never closed once😕. In some ways I guess Sid was the voice of disappointment for thousands of children around Norfolk...

#30DayMapChallenge
Day 1: Points

Worked on this experimental dot density map using UK population data by age and sex. The points are generated and coloured in real-time as you explore the map.
onsdigital.github.io/dot-map-poc/
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GitHub - ONSdigital/dot-map-poc: Experimental interactive dot density map Experimental interactive dot density map. Contribute to ONSdigital/dot-map-poc development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you're interested in how it works, the source code can be found here. It is a SvelteKit app using Maplibre for the map rendering. The custom dot density functions can be found in /src/lib/make-points.js
github.com/onsdigital/d...
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Coloured points representing ages in Greater Manchester

The points are placed using custom code based on Mitchell's best candidate algorithm to achieve an even spread. More points are generated as you zoom into the map, and the point locations and colours remain consistent as you change years.
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#30DayMapChallenge
Day 1: Points

Worked on this experimental dot density map using UK population data by age and sex. The points are generated and coloured in real-time as you explore the map.
onsdigital.github.io/dot-map-poc/
1/3

Won't lie - it has been a bit of a lifelong dream to work on the release of Indice of Deprivations interactive offer...

...very proud of what the team has delivered today. Check it
out - deprivation.communities.gov.uk

Introducing The Art of Visualization with ggplot2 – Nicola Rennie I’ve written a book! This blog post gives a brief introduction to The Art of Visualization with ggplot2, a book of data visualization case studies showing the end-to-end process of building charts, st...

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"!

This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots!

nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-...

#RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

Why would someone pay $20k for a robot controlled by a human in a remote location to do things more slowly and clumsily when the median wage for a maid or housekeeper is $33k per year, which is typically spread across 10-20 households?

"Can't miss the boat"
"Embrace it or be left behind"
"You'll be replaced by someone using AI"

These are all marketing slogans that prey on FOMO rather than value propositions. Anyone making decisions based on this kind of shaky logic is just another layer in the pyramid scheme.

Announcing: A Mentorship Program Helping Gaza’s Tech Students Graduate We are introducing a global mentorship initiative connecting experienced tech professionals with students in Gaza to help them finish graduation projects, build industry-ready skills, and access…

Coders: help mentor Gaza's CS students! Final year university students in Gaza are looking for mentorship in completing their undergraduate projects. Great opportunity to help students suffering under occupation.

updates.techforpalestine.org/introducing-...

A grid of 24 data visualizations all rendered in a sketchy style. From left to right, top to bottom: An area chart in red and black; a vector arrow in red; a grid with axis labels; three red dots; an empty frame; a world map; a bar chart; a Bollinger chart; three box plots; a grid; a hex bin density plot in red and blue; a red line with one maximum and one minimum point of inflexion; a contour plat in rainbow colours; three elliptical regions in yellow, blue and red; a dodge plot showing two peaks; a scatterplot of blue points with red linear regression line; 4 lines intersecting at a central point; a normally distributed histogram; a normally distributed histogram represented as red vertical lines; vertical tick marks in red looking like a bar code; a tree diagram with 8 nodes; a vector arrow; a voronoi diagram with yellow, blue and red regions; a waffle chart showing 3 categories as vertical stacked squares in blue, orange and red.

Do you want a bit more sketchiness in your #datavis?

Here's my @observablehq.com Plot plugin that turns an Plot specification into a sketchy version with minimal extra work:

observablehq.com/@jwolondon/m...

Builds on the work of Gordon Tu and rough.js

Text excerpt from Digital ID explainer saying "Digital credentials will be stored directly on your own device"

I wonder what the implications of this are for people who don't have/want a smart phone? Or who lose their phone or who have run out of battery when their ID is requested?

Only good omen for #ManUtd is that in 1992/93 they went on to win their first league title in a quarter of a century! #MOTD

Join us a week today!

Speakers include:
- @bothness.bsky.social, ONS, on 'Surfacing Local Insights: Mapping, Scrollytelling and (Semi)Automation'
- Andrea Barry, Youth Futures Foundation, on their data dashboard
- Leonardo Mazzone, Dept for Business and Trade, on matching companies across datasets

Neat tool from @forensicarchi.bsky.social for live tracking the #Gaza #flotilla. 22 ships currently sailing flotilla-orpin.vercel.app

A silver laptop is open, with a pink background. The screen has the following text (in black) on a background of light pink with bright pink dots: data bites #58 18 September 2025 18:00 GMT pd

🚨 NEW DATA BITES 🚨

Join @publicdigital.bsky.social & me in person/online, 6pm, Thurs 18 Sept, for Data Bites #58!

Speakers will include:
- @bothness.bsky.social, ONS
- Andrea Barry, Youth Futures Fdn, on their dashboard
- DBT on matching companies across datasets

public.digital/events/data-...

Have you never wondered what made up places you might find between #Iceland and #Ireland, or between #Northampton and #Southampton? Today, you can open up this new world of possibilities with #PlaceNameTweener, inspired by @terriblemapshq.bsky.social! bothness.github.io/placetweener/

Ps, if you liked this, you might also be interested in visiting my MySpace bsky.app/profile/both...