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honestly if software companies/projects just started adding a "this is not an AI project" disclaimer, I would go out of my way to support them

(maybe I should add this to my projects...)

some might say appropriately salty!

today I met a farm cat

There are no job losses in Ba Sing Se

There‘s a bunch of wholesome nerdy people in my TL but they only post once a day (sometimes once a week) at most. So do I.

I bet everyone is just busy and tired all the time (both from paid work and from nerd-sniping themselves).

And I wished we could all just hang around somewhere in a Nerd Café.

An email that reads: "Hi. I was doing some work today and accidentally stumbled on your website This is a Thing. I just wanted to thank you and let you know that these were the exact words I needed to hear at the exact time I needed to hear them."

this made my day, and has me in the mood to do more creative coding when I get the chance

you could work directly with the CEO, though!

this and Color Theory by Soccer Mommy got me through early COVID

thank you!! I scraped my own Google Timeline data. I figured if it's being tracked, I might as well do something with it myself lol

I got inspired to do some type of visualization with my personal data from a friend, who did a similar radial visualization showing their sleep data over a year

I sometimes feel like I'm picking between creativity and utility in #dataviz, but that's a false dichotomy

With some thoughtfulness in design and engineering, we can have the best of both worlds

Live link to this example: perthirtysix.com/visualizing-...

one of my data viz hot takes is I really don't like waterfall charts

"respectfully yours" after writing hundreds of words of garbage is a choice

studies have shown that if you give a rat a button for food, if the button:

- ALWAYS gives them food, they'll hit it just when they're hungry

- SOMETIMES gives them food, they'll get obsessed with it and ignore everything else

intermittent reinforcement is a bug in our brains too

Miso!

📊 The Dispatch is back with a double edition and a tiny new feature for die-hard fans! You can now use a navigation bar for a quick overview or to go to your favourites. Topics include the Big Beautiful Bill, extreme weather, and animals from children's books. 🐰

www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

"There is a marginal risk of severe weather today." in scary red text

I would prefer a severe risk of marginal weather

sticker game is strong!

I've been seeing some meta-analysis about data viz on my feeds and I wish I was as optimistic about some of the stuff I was reading (in terms of societal impact).

My $.02 is that good data communication can help a critical thinker think critically, but it won't make someone a critical thinker.

it's gambling all the way down baby

social media platforms, especially infinite algorithmic short video type of stuff, creates some of the same psychological dependencies as gambling too!

that's the idea! 🙂

but point taken, thanks for the feedback

A screenshot of the Communal Plot project, with an arrow pointing at the "Total Response" number, which is at 50,000.

Last year I launched a daily data viz poll game, and today it hit 50,000 total responses across 162 countries! super cool

it's at communalplot.com if you're interested in checking it out!

A data viz that shows wealth inequality in America using stick figures and areas. The data shows that the top 0.1% has 13.8% of the wealth, the next 0.9% has 17%, the next 9% has 36.4%, the next 40% has 30.3%, and the bottom 50% has 2.5%.

Thanks Michael! It looks like the link preview on Bluesky actually crops out the bottom 50%. I'm not sure if that's the image you were referring to, or the full image, but here's the full image if helpful!

For a while now, I've been trying to think of ways to visually and viscerally communicate just how ludicrous the wealth that the top 1% has accumulated is. This one (not mine) is pretty good...

America Gets Wealthier But The Poor Get Poorer Dive into American wealth inequality through rich, interactive visualizations. Learn how wealth is distributed across income groups and what the data reveals about economic disparity.

Thanks, Francis! Yes, it's from a piece I put together a few months ago: perthirtysix.com/tool/america...

Essentially a nice shell on top of some Federal Reserve data I was interested in exploring

A data viz that shows wealth inequality in America using stick figures and areas. The data shows that the top 0.1% has 13.8% of the wealth, the next 0.9% has 17%, the next 9% has 36.4%, the next 40% has 30.3%, and the bottom 50% has 2.5%.

how the side the on the left keeps convincing the side on the right that they need more space is beyond me

me before I go 3 for 18 with 9 turnovers at pickup ball

dead internet theory looking more and more true every day