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Belatedly: There's also a shortform video version of this story! www.instagram.com/p/DNynfsr3uIW/

Hear New Orleans' rising temperatures in music Average temperatures have been going up in many cities, including New Orleans. Here's what those higher temperatures sound like.

📊🔊 Data sonification: New Orleans' rising temperatures, conveyed via the tempo of a brass band's music www.npr.org/transcripts/...

Adobe Illustrator: "Save for Web" panel buttons are ordered Done, Cancel and Save. The "Save" button is colored blue.

Adobe Photoshop: The buttons in the "Save for Web" panel are labeled "Save...", "Cancel" and "Done" — the opposite order from Illustrator.

I just realized that Illustrator and Photoshop's versions of the "Save for Web" panel have the Save/Cancel/Done buttons in the same place but in different order. Maybe that's why I always accidentally cancel out of them so often — I mean to click "Save" but click "Done" by mistake.

Made this little guy to track the substantial growth of Erin's tropical-storm-force winds #mapshaper #turfjs #flubber #svelte5 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I wanted to try an interrupted projection as part of a globe -> orange peel -> mercator/equalearth progression, but ran out of time. github.com/d3/d3-geo-pr...

African Union backs campaign to replace Mercator map that distorts Africa's size Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.

Got to nerd out a little about world maps. www.npr.org/2025/08/21/n...

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Today marks 9 years since NPR colleagues David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna were killed on assignment in Afghanistan. The memorial display at NPR honors their memory. The camera David was carrying when he died is on the left.
We remember them on this day and always.

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In first 100 days, Trump tests limits, creates chaos and turns from allies From foreign policy and tariffs to immigration changes and targeting of DEI, here's a look back at some of the major moves made in the past 100 days of President Trump's second administration.

TIMELINES: 100 days of major Trump admin actions re: DOGE, immigration, tariffs, foreign policy, retribution, civil rights and Signalgate, compiled by Domenico Montanaro @npr.org @heidiglenn.bsky.social. SO MUCH has happened in the past 3 months; it's really something to see it listed out.

Our Gaza investigation has been translated into 2 additional languages:

* Arabic: apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...

* Hebrew: apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...

* English: apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...

Working on another story translation project and came across this really useful guide to design/css/code considerations when working with RTL languages: rtlstyling.com/posts/rtl-st...

🌸 Update to this project, just in time for spring: @danielpwwood.bsky.social added support for zip code search and made transition animations sensitive to whether `prefers-reduced-motion` is set.

Making of the New York and Erie Railroad organizational diagram Org charts tend to be a rather boring affair—with their lists of names and who reports to whom—but they didn’t start out that way. One of the first in American business, is a stunning portrait of a cl...

Fascinating deep-dive on an 1855 railroad company org chart, unearthed in the Library of Congress archives:

www.c82.net/blog/?id=98

On a technical note: The flowcharts were produced in Illustrator and converted to HTML using ai2html. Then I used IntersectionObserver to track all the <p> tags and toggle a CSS class to fade them in as they became visible onscreen. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

@ximenabustillo.bsky.social did extensive reporting and research for this, and we worked together to boil this complex process down into a series of flowcharts. Thanks as well to to editor Anna Yukhananov, art director @emilybogle.bsky.social, illustrator Ana Galvañ and copy editor Pam Webster.

Also, until this week I didn't realize that flag emojis 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇨🇳 🇪🇺 are unevenly supported on Windows machines. Found a polyfill to make those work. www.npmjs.com/package/coun...

It's been a wild rollout of Trump's tariffs. Here's how we got here President Trump's tariff talk has been big — and also unpredictable. He's frequently made threats only to back off or shift deadlines. Here, a look at how the tariff agenda has rolled out.

The back-and-forth volley of tariff threats so far this year:

This visual narrative includes a reconstruction of what happened the night of the strike and in the aftermath, the Israeli military's response, a detailed family tree mapping out the extent of the family's loss, satellite imagery and original drone video from their neighborhood.

One family. One attack. 132 names. A Gaza investigation. More than 50,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war with Hamas, Gaza health officials say. We reconstructed what happened in one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the war.

New project: An Israeli strike on a Gaza apartment building killed 132 members of one family in October 2024. It was one of the deadliest Israeli strikes of the Israel-Hamas war. The few survivors documented the dead via handwritten lists, which they shared with NPR. apps.npr.org/gaza-buildin...

An Agoraphobe Goes to the Grocery Store It had been more than 365 days since I went to the supermarket. So I steeled myself and ventured out.

This illustrated/animated NYT essay about agoraphobia and the grocery store is so beautifully done. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Follow NPR's annotated fact check of President Trump's address to Congress As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact check and offer context as the speech unfolds.

As President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, reporters from across NPR's newsroom will fact-check and offer context as the speech unfolds.

Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at 74 Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

Kee Malesky, NPR's research librarian for more than 20 years, has died at age 74. She left NPR in 2014. She's remembered for her love of facts, and here's another irrefutable one: She will be missed.

As the Texas outbreak grows, how contagious is measles, really? Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. 25 years ago. But it can still spread in pockets where vaccination rates are low, like the west Texas county with a current outbreak. Here's how fast.

A look at the relative contagiousness of measles and other viruses, the role vaccination plays, and vaccination rates in TX counties.

I enjoy the use of sliders / interactivity here to demonstrate data viz literacy concepts.

More than a third of the contracts DOGE posted online would not actually save any money if canceled, according to DOGE themselves.

In all, estimated savings from the initial DOGE list of just over 500 contracts that @npr.org found to be cancelled runs closer to $2 billion.

Elections Slackbots How we used GitHub and Slack to stay up to date during the 2024 election season.

Recently on the team blog: Elections developer Shajia Abidi wrote about some experiments with AP testing and results data, Github Actions and Slack notifiers. blog.apps.npr.org/2025/01/29/e...

Update (3pm ET on February 5th): the Census FTP site, including the ACS flat files and TIGER/Line shapefiles, is back up!

This means that your #rstats / #Python Census geodata packages are now working as normal.

Get your data now!