Simon Straubinger

Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org

Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

Geografisk spredning i investeringer: pensionsselskaber vs. husholdninger vs. MSCI World Index

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/slam
#smbc

(including the best closing line I've ever written)

South Korea gender divide update 😲

Young men lean right by 50 points
(74% conservative vs 24% centre-left)

Young women lean left by 22 points
(58% centre-left vs 36% cons)

Economic uncertainty update:

The thing about veering wildly between policy positions, favouring and then discarding a new maverick advisor each week, and using contradictory justifications at every turn, is that even if one particular pivot is in the direction of sanity, chaos is the constant.

New consumer sentiment data just out for April:

Americans’ expectations for how the economy will fare over the next year are now at their worst in 45 years.

Consumer confidence is down 40% since Trump’s inauguration, including a 20% drop among Republicans.

NEW 🧵

The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border.

Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

Screenshot of the forecast page, showing a time series of the Liberal Party's chances of winning the election rising from 4% in January to 83% today

Our forecast of the Canadian election is live 📈🇨🇦

We give the Liberal Party an 83% chance of winning the most seats on 28th April

www.economist.com/interactive/...

NEW 🧵

A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:

1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.

These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism

Just a reminder that all the data FiveThirtyEight collected—polls, election results, and much more—is available for download (for now) on our GitHub page. github.com/fivethirtyei...

GDPNow Provides a

ATLANTA FED: "The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2025 is -1.5 percent."

www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

DOGE savings www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

"Societies change their minds faster than people do: Generational replacement is what shifts public opinion"

www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Godot Showcase - Museum of All Things What if Wikipedia was a place you could visit? That’s the idea behind The Museum of All Things, a free and open-source procedurally-generated museum built on Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base.

What if Wikipedia was a place you could visit? That’s the idea behind The Museum of All Things, a free and open-source procedurally-generated museum built on Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base 🖼️

godotengine.org/article/muse...

Clear east-west divide in Germany this election

NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany:

Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.

www.ft.com/content/29fd...

Defense Against Dishonest Charts This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Opinion | The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours (Gift Article) What happens when ambition no longer checks ambition?

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/o...

The Doomsday Clock has never been closer to metaphorical midnight. What does it mean? The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

The Doomsday Clock now stands at 89 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe in its nearly eight-decade history. Here's a look at how — and why — it's moved.

YouTube video by Sky News Are we on the verge of a global trade war? | Ed Conway analysis

📽️What on earth is happening with US tariff policy?
Could tariffs really, as Donald Trump hinted, replace income tax?
And what does this mean for everyone else?
My five minute primer. An attempt to Make Tariffs Interesting Again 👇
youtu.be/59cf99eJcJM?...

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

medium.com/nightingale/...

hexagonal tile with 10 package logos

new week, new packages and tools in the LLM + #rstats space

{gander} joins the family and has a very cool logo
luisdva.github.io/rstats/LLMsR/

YouGov's MRP for the 2025 German election shows a strong East/West divide, with the AfD leading in all but two constituencies in the former East Germany

yougov.co.uk/internationa...

Elon Musk's recent interventions in the UK and Germany have gone down poorly in both countries

- 69-73% say Musk trying to influence national politics is unacceptable
- 63% say Musk knows little to nothing about issues in their country
- Musk net favourability: -52/-53

yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

The Trouble with Elon I didn’t set out to become an enemy of the world’s richest man, but I seem to have managed it all the same.

"Of all the remarkable people I’ve met, Elon is probably the most likely to remain a world-historical figure—despite his best efforts to become a clown."

It's worth reading Sam Harris on the end of his friendship with Musk. samharris.substack.com/p/the-troubl...

posit::conf(2024) Quarto talks – Quarto Videos of talks from posit::conf(2024) are posted, we’ve compiled a playlist of Quarto talks for you!

Interested in the latest developments & tips on Quarto? Check out all the Quarto talks from posit::conf(2024)!
quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

And consider joining the Posit community for posit::conf(2025).
Learn more and register at posit.co/conf.

#quarto #rstats #python #pydata #datascience

Re: Greenland / Denmark / US: From the 1916 Treaty between Denmark and the United States, the US Secretary ratifying on behalf of the US President:

YouTube video by MegaLag Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam

The Honey browser extension is a scam. Well done investigation by MegaLag (not on bsky) youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk?...

Godt nytår 🎉 Happy New Year