Attila Bátorfy

I got my set of
@infowetrust.com 's Maps for Kids today. I thought for my grandkids, but I may end up keeping them myself.

This one, on Food Energy is particularly brilliant. The loveliest trilinear plot ever seen.

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A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 10: Python & the Command Line Scripting directly on the command line with Bash or Zsh is relatively straightforward: work out a sequence of commands, then wrap them in a…

Curious about using Python to make #maps but don’t know where to start? I wrote a tutorial that’s ostensibly about GDAL but is really a beginner’s guide to programming: medium.com/@robsimmon/a...

My time and cost version from years ago (car)

The Crunch: voting in Victoria; gambling in a crypto casino; and the sex lives of gen Z Victoria is the last state still using group voting tickets to elect its upper house – and now there are calls to abolish them

Small mention is still a mention, Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities on Guardian!

Here is the entire collection of Larkin's charts www.fellowshipbiblechurchorlando.org/blank

Misi Minkó sent me this diagram about Satan's past, present and future, and while searching the internet, I came across the Biblical charts of creationist Clarence Larkin. Every joke is new to a newborn!

This image of North and South America at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012. The new data was mapped over existing Blue Marble imagery of Earth to provide a realistic view of the planet. Most of the Earth appears as it would after dark, with city lights glowing underneath clouds. There’s a thin arc of atmosphere, simulating how daybreak would look from far above the Earth.

One from the archives. The first 6 months of VIIRS Day Night Band data, an instrument sensitive enough to see snow by starlight. Rendered in Cinema4D with a physically based atmosphere shader. I put *a lot* of work into the clouds, and how they would appear from space at night.

#dataviz #NASA #NOAA

Not just pretty pictures: interview with Michael Friendly The Curious Cabinet #2

"the inspiration to do our best today, to think and try to visualize data better, even if it means using novel graphic forms"— @datavisfriendly.bsky.social with @attilabatorfy.bsky.social attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/not-just-p...

let's get infografit book with Santa Claus hat

going to overeat at Christmas? Work it off with my new book as your guide! letsgetinfografit.com

A grid of thumbnails showing monthly highlights. Maps, illustrations, 3D models and sketches from 2025

Every year, as December approaches, I like to look back on the year. This was my 2025, told through stories with maps, illustrations, 3D models, and more: tinyurl.com/4wmzfawu Happy holidays! 🎄

Not just pretty pictures: interview with Michael Friendly The Curious Cabinet #2

Here it is! Thank you, Michael! @datavisfriendly.bsky.social

Photo of Twin Peaks VHS collection arranched in a way, so that it now says "AHPEKS TWIN".

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The interview with Michael Friendly is coming tomorrow! @datavisfriendly.bsky.social

This is my type of essay by Stefan Helmreich from MIT Anthropology. With lots of graphics! anthropology.mit.edu/files/anthro...

this proposal is too complex to me, while I'm struggling to find a good taxonomy for my collection. Sometimes I just want to filter for "circular", or "polar" diagrams. Here: www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.01724

Nobody asked me, but my favs

The USGS Cooperative National Geologic Map A new, colorful map from the USGS synthesizes decades of state and federal geologic surveys to create the most detailed visualization of the geology of the contiguous United States to date.

www.beautifulpublicdata.com/usgs-coopera... via @ashendruk.com

This is my favorite time of year: I get to send beautiful information graphics all over the world (over 60 countries and counting!).

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I don't understand why the Guardian publishes every idiotic article it receives. "liberal arts institutions should embrace a market-oriented mindset."

Breaking monotony with patterns The solution of the "Atlas of Philippine Statistics" from 1939.

A solution from the Philippines. New on Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities

According to the propaganda of the Hungarian government, anyone not belonging to the ruling party Fidesz is a warmongering puppet of "Brussels"

However, when PM Orbán repeats the Russian talking points about the war in Ukraine and serves Russian interests, he's displaying HU's proud sovereignty :)

One of Booth's large scale map showing levels of poverty in London by color shading

Zoomed in detail of one of Booth's poverty maps

Legend showing color coding in Booth's map, ranging from yellow (wealthy) through red (well-to-do), down to dark blue & black (very poor & criminal)

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
💀Nov 23, 1916 Charles Booth died in Thringstone, Leicestershire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

1889: Social mapping. Street maps of London, showing poverty and wealth by color coding--> transforming existing methods of social survey and poverty mapping towards the end of the 19th C

Moving past superficial histories: interview with RJ Andrews The Curious Cabinet #1.

We are putting together the next interview with Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social I can tell you, that it will be a tour de force about the history of dataviz. Coming soon! Until then you can read the first in the series with RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com.

There are some gems/rares that I cannot write about in more than a sentence. And yet these are the ones that make up the majority. These will be the Christmas gifts for readers. Here is a small sample of my favorites. This is about a tenth of them.

Aww

I will try to figure out something