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KatieAK

@data-is-blue.bsky.social

Mostly a data viz lurker, with an offline life as a researcher and data visualisation practitioner. Mixing it up with my current project: https://www.mymatrescence.datais.blue/

35 Followers  |  186 Following  |  30 Posts  |  Joined: 02.02.2025  |  1.8587

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"In Experiment 1 we found that Jitter Plots reduced personal attribution (i.e. blame) by 7.0 points, relative to Bar Charts (p=0.0011)." @elibryan.bsky.social 3iap.com/dispersion-d...

30.07.2025 19:00 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I have to sing it, even in my head. #MyMatrescenceProject #Histogram #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

26.07.2025 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cosleeping saved us, but gosh it's chilly. #MyMatrescenceProject #TimeSeries #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

23.07.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I did/am doing a thing and then wrote about the doing!

15.07.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I really appreciate an alternative presentation but that's no excuse for sloppy work 🧣🧢

08.07.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of google image search results for "Ingela P. Arrhenius cat", showing two almost identical children's book covers with an illustration of a cat. One book is titled "Where's the cat?" and the other is titled "Where's Mrs Cat?"

Screenshot of google image search results for "Ingela P. Arrhenius cat", showing two almost identical children's book covers with an illustration of a cat. One book is titled "Where's the cat?" and the other is titled "Where's Mrs Cat?"

I love it! It brings to mind Ingela Arrhenius' animal lift the flap books, which were originally non-gendered but are inexplicably released in some markets (*cough*Australia*cough*) with gendered honorifics.

08.07.2025 04:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I love this so much. Unsurprisingly kangaroo trends she/her. I'd love to see an Australian version of this dataset...

08.07.2025 04:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it's useful! I am doing a lot of work generating word document survey analysis summaries using quarto which has been a real headache. Being able to look at other approaches is really helpful!

06.07.2025 03:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My most extreme act of nesting behaviour. #MyMatrescenceProject #TimeSeries #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

30.06.2025 05:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There's some things you just shouldn't say to people you don't know (or at all, honestly). #MyMatrescenceProject #Pictogram #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

25.06.2025 02:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

It's #ShowYourStripes day. Despite the freezing cold the last week or so, this has felt like a very warm dry winter and that's not a trend that brings me joy. #DataViz

20.06.2025 21:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'd never washed literally every towel in the house in one day before. #MyMatrescenceProject #BarChart #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

20.06.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A simplification, but a useful one. #MyMatrescenceProject #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

18.06.2025 04:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re thrilled to unveil the winners of the 2024 #IIBAwards! These works stand out not just for their mastery of #dataviz and storytelling, but for their impact and innovation. See the winners: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/680-ann...

14.06.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Thanks for a great presentation :) it made my day to get to watch something super relevant to what I'm working on at the moment during my standard working hours (unheard of!)

10.06.2025 11:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Too precious to waste. #MyMatrescenceProject #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

05.06.2025 06:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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There's no words for how deep this fear runs. #MyMatrescenceProject #SparkLine #TimeSeries #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

03.06.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We're two for two on purple projectile vomit at midnight. #MyMatrescenceProject #PieChart #SmallMultiples #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

31.05.2025 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There would be a pop of the highlight for each language and would draw more attention to languages with most bfrequent letters that aren't E (or would be a wall of bright green Es πŸ˜…)

22.05.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I like the experiment and the colour version more but maybe the colours could use some tweaking? It looks like the colours are an encoding of frequency across the entire dataset - maybe if the scale was frequency across the individual language the colour would add more to the visualisation?

22.05.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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A good night's sleep really does change everything. #MyMatrescenceProject #DivergentBarChart #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

21.05.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It was a super pleasant surprise to stumble on this the other night while hashtag surfing and get to read a whole set of Australian themed visualisations ❀️

17.05.2025 05:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I used to love getting in the car with a playlist and snacks. #MyMatrescenceProject #DivergentBarChart #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

17.05.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I guess you could call this a set of interdependent variables. #MyMatrescenceProject #PostpartumMentalHealth #TimeSeries #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

14.05.2025 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It's a clichΓ© for a reason. #MyMatrescenceProject #Love #DataViz #Datavis #DataHumanism

12.05.2025 20:49 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
My matrescence project A data visualisation project exploring my matrescence.

I'll be posting as I go, or you can check the project so far out at www.mymatrescence.datais.blue

11.05.2025 02:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What better day than Mother's Day to launch my new project? I've been using the language of data visualisation to explore my experience of matrescence (but without any recorded data, whaaaaaat?). #MyMatrescenceProject #HappyMothersDay #TimeSeries #DataViz #Datavis

11.05.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The thing that the narrative is trying to draw attention to (the difference/increase between the two periods) is visually subsumed because it's encoded as a thin grey line, surrounded by lots of colourful circles that catch the eye instead. I'd probably structure it more like a dumbbell chart.

09.04.2025 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Banner announcing that my work has been longlisted for the Information is Beautiful Awards 2024. The snippet image shows a detailed short of a colourful, stripy crochet scarf.

Banner announcing that my work has been longlisted for the Information is Beautiful Awards 2024. The snippet image shows a detailed short of a colourful, stripy crochet scarf.

Hooray! www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/762...

24.03.2025 04:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Out of interest, do you have a link to the article? I'd like to share it but haven't had any luck finding the right NYT article.

28.02.2025 07:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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