Jason Forrest

At London Data Week, the @datavandals.bsky.social held a data-performance at London City Hall. The brief: add a bit of informative chaos to a professional event. Our answer: 10 inflatable balls per various metrics, thrown at the audience and 10 people on stage. Thanks Greater London Authority!

Our turtle took a ride in a NYC taxi today

Jerome Jim Sullivan · U.F.O. · Song · 2010

another winner: open.spotify.com/track/2Mmwaa...

Ragni Ehua · Panta Rei · Song · 2025

awesome tune: open.spotify.com/track/2eVyHt...

🚨🚨 We JUST heard that there are 2 last spots open for our workshop with Graphic Hunters in Utrecht on Aug 4&5! 🚨🚨 This is literally going to be one of the craziest, most interesting, fun, and totally unique 2 days of your life! 🚨 Sign up now!!!🚨 graphichunters.nl/data-vandals/

Gorgeous night in NYC!!!

This one was especially awesome today! Super interesting!!!

There’s a few more to go through, so I’ll keep sharing results over the next week or so!

It’s exciting to review my stash of Fortune Magazines!!! I’m happy to say they will get a nice home where people can use them soon!!

If, in the future anyone asks me what my favorite chart is, I will say it is this one:

I’m moving so that gives me a reason to look at some of the books in my collection. This totally blew me away - it’s a Marie Neurath chart from Future Books 3. I’ve looked at the book a ton of times it never realized this was her work too!

Oh, how I miss that lil Piaggio Ape!

Lowly Worm for life!!!!

The Great London Survey — Data Vandals We turn data into captivating art in cities, galleries, museums, and parks. Our work sparks conversations that encourage people to see and engage with their world in new ways.

We're back from London Data Week, and we just posted a TON of new photos and data!! Go check it out! datavandals.com/the-great-lo...

Data Vandals friend list Its not a newsletter - its a chance to be buddies!

If you're interested in how we can use data to spark covic conversations, why not follow our Data Vandals work @datavandals.bsky.social?? We are trying to pivot our newsletter past just spamming people things and more towards an actual conversation. Why not get involved?! datavandals.eo.page/219f9

Just back in NYC and here are photos from a fabulous week in London!

Hopefully we can return again next year for more fun!

London Data Week has been INCREDIBLE - so much to say, but only time for photos:

If you haven't seen our adorable lil 1980s-Piaggio-Ape-turned mobile-data-kiosk then you just aren't living:

Not at the moment - but we'd love to come sometime!!!

Graphic Hunters - 2 Day NL — Data Vandals We turn data into captivating art in cities, galleries, museums, and parks. Our work sparks conversations that encourage people to see and engage with their world in new ways.

Austrian Alps in mid-August!!! We'll be in the Slazburg area for a few days hiking! But this workshop in Utrecht is probably more what you're looking for: datavandals.com/graphic-hunt...

🚨 BIG NEWS: @datavandals.bsky.social are headed to London this week for an EPIC project. Read all about it below! Thanks to all our friends Flourish!! Maybe of interest: @londondatavis.bsky.social, @data.ft.com, @datavizsociety.bsky.social, @womenindataviz.bsky.social, @dataviz.bsky.social

YYYEESSSS! That's how I like it - Rando AF! hahah!

Stories and Memories - JF radio Playlist · Jason Forrest - NYC · 705 items · 7 saves

Sharing this playlist I have of 705 awesome songs - it's perfect for long flights, working, and dinner parties! open.spotify.com/playlist/2zX...

YouTube video by Dom Whiting Drum & Bass On The Bike - BERLIN

Dom Whiting is a real inspiration! Talk about civic activation- 4,000 people biking in Berlin listing to Drum and Bass: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKqS...

London, Utrecht, Budapest, Vienna, Los Angeles, Singapore!!!! That’s all coming up in the next few months!

Low Tides Thanya Iyer · Low Tides · Song · 2025

This song just hits on every level - major chills every time it comes on: open.spotify.com/track/7zZoFv...

Probably more most ambitious @datavandals.bsky.social project yet - this time in LONDON with our friends at Canva/Flourish for #LondonDataWeek:

A super cute morning in Central Park today: