Daniel Wood

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

What's happening at the Post is a tragedy for the DC area, for journalism, for a number of my good friends. Please consider donating to the GoFundMe for laid off employees. www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

Thanks for including the Aral Sea piece!

By the way, I think the "reach out" link at the end has the wrong url. cheers!

New Stories from Space: More Satellite Imagery in Data Journalism Satellite data is currently all over the news. Color imagery illustrates the attacks on Iranian nuclear infrastructure, thermal data shows…

More Stories from Space! Here are some of my favorite recent examples of data journalism that use satellite data as a key element.

medium.com/@robsimmon/n...

If you’re interested in exploring the possibilities, please get in touch.

#dataviz #cartography 📊🗺️🛰️

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.

NPR exclusive: we reconstructed the impact of a single IDF strike in Gaza, one that killed 132 members of the same family. It's a horrifying look at what is possible in modern war.

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Offering a mea culpa here...it doesn't need a name. I've been reminded by Chazmo that names aren't really a thing.

Should just be Gulf of Chazmo.

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Gift Article) She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

A great article and belated obituary for Karen Wynn Fonstad, the cartographer who mapped Middle Earth, the Forgotten Realms, and more. I was entranced by her Atlas of Middle Earth, which contributed to my later career as a cartographer!

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

#cartography #fantasy

I'm not sure, to be quite honest. I can say that our estimates proved to be pretty accurate, based on the cost calculators we used (protomaps, and our own). If you're dealing with substantially higher request, it may become a factor though.

Hmmmmmmm

I've seen a lot of people on linkedIn with "experienced board member" in their bio. I'm thinking about adding "inexperienced board member" in mine.

And I think I've never paid for it, and just rolled the dice, and never been seated apart from my kids. But you do arrive at the airport terrified, so a guarantee would be awesome.

fwiw, I think there's been a push lately to guarantee this, without an additional fee. See here:
www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/...
www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/t...

This incredible timeline of notable peoplen since 3500BC

janwillemtulp.github.io/parallel-liv...

Flight of the common rose: How are Singapore’s butterflies impacted by climate change? Because they are such sensitive creatures, butterflies are like the proverbial canary in the coal mine for the environment. But urbanisation, and now climate change, have triggered their species and p...

Our former intern Stephanie Adeline at the Strait Times with this really cool piece on butterflies, with neat 3D graphics and maps: www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/g...

First this Reuters pieces is incredible, particularly the map: www.reuters.com/graphics/AFR...

Gonna bookmark some incredible graphics and maps from 2024 that I need to return to.

So good!

My followers apparently aren't fans of ODB aka Dirt McGirt aka Big Baby Jesus. They've never entered the Wu-Tang I guess.

Pretty sure ODB was also apprehended at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania. Really makes you think.

The 124 Best Songs of 2024 2024 was a year of breakthroughs, with new stars storming the top of the charts and artists across genres making modern classics. NPR Music's list of best songs of the year has something for everyone.

New collab w/ @nprmusic.bsky.social: The 124 best songs of 2024, in a filterable grid format. www.npr.org/2024/12/04/g...

whoaaaaa zoomable joyplot map 🤯🤯🤯

Nice! Let me know if you have questions. Brandon is also very responsive (Buy him a coffee tho :) )

And I found the typo but it was hardcoded into an image and i have been too lazy to regenerate it lol

Self-hosted slippy maps, for novices (like me) How we built our own explorable tile map without paying a fortune.

I finally got a chance to finish the blog post that elaborates on how we built and self-hosted an intricate slippy map using @protomaps.com. It's similar to my talk from NACIS, but in further depth. Let me know if you have questions!
blog.apps.npr.org/2024/11/26/s...

This is fabulous, even though I only acknowledge the original 150 pokemon as canonical, and I won't be convinced otherwise.

"the Circle, in the end, is broken". I see what you did there

Books We Love Here are 350+ great reads from 2024 hand-picked just for you by NPR staff and trusted critics.

Wake up babe, new Books We Love just dropped!!!!

apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

I'm very happy with Sill, but also, the best website in the world launched this year's version today. apps.npr.org/best-books/

So glad to hear that! That was my goal :)

YouTube video by NACIS Cheap and Pricey: NPR Leveraged Free Tools To Build and Host Our Own Slippy Maps. Was... Daniel Wood

Here's my talk from NACIS 2024 on how NPR built a super custom and highly detailed slippy map story last year. Any time you give me a mic, I sort of go into a theater-kid fugue state, so I hope it makes sense. Was fun to present! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abbt...