We did a massive data-collection-and-joining effort combined with statistical modeling to estimate that about 200 to 400 pedestrians are dying each year who otherwise would have survived if vehicles were about the same size as they were around 20 years ago. Cumulatively, that's thousands of deaths.

Our latest investigation: How giant trucks and SUVs are far deadlier for pedestrians. “Before the driver knows what’s happened, the pedestrian’s head is under the wheel.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)

The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.

nytimes.com

Indian censor board cuts to any film used to be published in government gazettes by law. I collected 8,000 movies from the 1960s-90s and dug through them in this new post. Bond, Lawrence of Arabia, a lot of nervousness about communists and "suggestions of kissing". #dataviz aman.bh/blog/2026/hi...

Historical Indian film censorship from 1960s to 1990s | Aman Bhargava

I found decades of the Indian film censor board's cuts buried in old government gazettes on the Internet Archive, covering the 1960s to the 1990s.

aman.bh

C'est moi!

WEDODATA@wedodata.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🔍 Les infographies de propagande nazie analysées par RJ Andrews (@infowetrust.com) dans sa newsletter Chartography — un rappel que la dataviz peut manipuler autant qu'informer 🗺️ 700 graphiques dessinés à la main issus du recensement indien, dénichés par le studio Diagram Chasing (@aman.bh)

And with such a nice organic pie chart! (Enjoyed your article)

Aman Bhargava@aman.bh · 4mo ago

Absolutely honored to have been asked to write for Attila. His work has been such an inspiration and the Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities is one of my favorite #dataviz blogs! A look at some of my favorite picks from the 1971 and 1981 Indian censuses.

Absolutely honored to have been asked to write for Attila. His work has been such an inspiration and the Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities is one of my favorite #dataviz blogs! A look at some of my favorite picks from the 1971 and 1981 Indian censuses.

Attila Bátorfy@attilabatorfy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Read the great @aman.bh Aman Bhargava's fantastic article about the “Portraits of Population” series from India on Cabinet. The article offers insightful commentary on the censuses and chart making in India from the 1970s and 1980s.

This Monday, a fantastic guest post is coming to Cabinet of Infographic Curiosities by the great Aman Bhargava @aman.bh

AI hype is weird. I use Claude too, but I'm not a "fan". It's a tool. Does it not matter what it is being used to make? You can make good things or you can make mediocre things. If you make good things that others value too, then it is by "you". Why purely evangelize a tool and diminish yourself.

It's been a pleasure (and privilege) to see LayerChart grow and grow, getting better with each release. The new docs are wonderful. Indispensable chart tooling for Svelte!

Sean Lynch@techniq.dev · 4mo ago

📊 Massive LayerChart update (6 months in the making…) Data-driven primitives, overhauled state (transform, brush, series, tooltip), 10+ new components (image, statistical, spatial), canvas improvements, chart export (png, svg), new docs, and so much more! next.layerchart.com/docs/guides/...

The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. My new story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️ 🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...

I've been truly inspired by the archival work and writings on historical dataviz by @infowetrust.com, @attilabatorfy.bsky.social and @datavisfriendly.bsky.social. My main motivation here was to see if I can find #dataviz for the Indian context. This is a small start and part of the learning process!

Aman Bhargava@aman.bh · 4mo ago

The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. My new story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️ 🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...

The Census of India has never been very reader-friendly. But in 1970s, a series of events led to government putting effort into publishing very interesting, truly "Indian" #dataviz for the average reader. My new story, with an explorer and some comics! More ⬇️ 🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2026/portrai...

A reminder that if you’re looking for dataviz content on Bluesky, there’s a lot here 👇📊

Voilà: Francis Gagnon@chezvoila.com · 2y ago

Here you go. 🫡 Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊 go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy

I always think I should make a thread of it, but I can't find the time, so here it is, one of the projects I'm most proud of: we developed the dataviz standards for the Quebec government's website. 📊

Establish government-wide data visualization standards - Voilà:

How do we create data visualization standards for most provincial government departments?

chezvoila.com

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

wired.com

Really written with a lot of heart, full of interactive #dataviz AND if that wasn't enough, music by Shri himself (what a flex)!! Stunning piece of work.

shri@shrikhalpada.dev · 5mo ago

I wrote a lot of words and built a lot of interactives around AI-generated music!

Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?! I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote. But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land 🥰 Thanks, Emil! Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

📚 I'm happy to release free, online textbooks covering the two courses I taught at the hashtag#NICAR26 data journalism conference put on by Investigative Reporters and Editors last week in Indianapolis.

How I figure out how far to dive into the topic ... well that's a bit of an instinct I've developed from doing this for years. But basically I try to keep the idea to a single take-away (ie: wealthy live in the shade!), and I try to keep it under about 1000 words.

Another NICAR, another year of FOMO. One day.

I gave a guest talk at Purdue on intro to data storytelling in 'lowercase'. Writing it reminded me of when I was a student and thought only one kind of story, the Big Story, could exist. Some of this feels obvious to us in the #dataviz space, but maybe it isn't. Slides: aman.bh/blog/2026/da...

data storytelling in lowercase - guest talk at Purdue | Aman Bhargava

Thoughts on what it means for me to engage in data storytelling, in lowercase

aman.bh

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on! “Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤 A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

RE: https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/116000811728539952 Week 3's class, an introduction Svelte and component-based design, is live and free to anyone interested in taking it. https://palewi.re/docs/coding-the-news/scripts/week-3/

Ben Welsh@palewi.re · 6mo ago

📚 I'm pleased to release my syllabus and course materials for "Coding the News," the class I'm leading this semester for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Looks like my full series on using color in #dataviz finally made the migration to the new NASA science website: science.nasa.gov/blogs/earth-... If you’re new to visualization, or just want a refresher, it covers the basics of color theory, how to build a palette, plus some tips & tricks.

Introduction (Subtleties of Color, Part 1 of 6) - NASA Science

The purpose of data visualization—any data visualization—is to illuminate data. To show patterns and relationships that are otherwise hidden in an impenetrable mass of numbers.

science.nasa.gov

Get your submissions in!! @vizchitra.bsky.social #dataviz

Andy Kirk@visualisingdata.com · 6mo ago

After what looked a really successful event in 2025, VizChitra 2026 - India's premier Data Viz conference - is taking place again in July 2026 and there is just one week left to submit proposals for talks, dialogues, workshops, or exhibitions. Visit vizchitra.com/2026 to find out more!

🗞️ Nieman Lab republished the piece Scott Klein and I put together analyzing the decline of open-source news. If you haven't checked it out yet, here's another chance. https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/journalism-lost-its-culture-of-sharing-heres-how-we-rebuild-it/

Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it

The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed.

niemanlab.org

The Indian government released an MCP server that lets you query their survey data using plain English and get back aggregate statistics from national surveys. I explore some of its possibilities and limitations. #data #stats aman.bh/blog/2026/qu...

Querying India's MoSPI Data with Claude and MCP | Aman Bhargava

The Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released a new tool for LLM-assisted querying of their survey data. I explore some of it's possibilities.

aman.bh

Started to feel like I'm gatekeeping it so I'll rather just share the draft: Last fall I started a opinionated Svelte 5 onboarding flow / roadmap. Plan was to translate it into an interactive (with links and more details) over Xmas but I had to take a hard break. I'll probably go for it in February

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Bluesky Map

Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

bluesky-map.theo.io

I can't believe I get to see this be used in context lmao

Theo Sanderson@theo.io · 6mo ago

everything