Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂

Is there a market on Kalshi where I can bet on the British Museum refusing to return the #BayeuxTapestry?

The report demonstrates how 2025 was the warmest year in the UK series from 1884, with the last four years in the top five warmest. The number of days over 30C has quadrupled for Greater London for the most recent decade compared to 1961-1990. 🧵2/

Took a break to build BinFax for the people of Clacton binfax.netlify.app

London Data Week #LDW starts today with an interesting and packed programme of free events (but book in advance): londondataweek.org/ldw26-events/ I will be giving a talk on Friday about revealing voting biases with 📊 following the recent local elections. londondataweek.org/ldw26-events...

I feel like I've been seeing a lot less #England flags around my neighbourhood for #WorldCup2026 than during previous major football tournaments... Which got me thinking whether it might have anything to do with culture wars and most people generally being decent human beings?! #VennDiagram

What if we made data tables where the numbers were sized according to the size of the number! No?!? #BadDataViz

such a cool chart. The UK just has no highly-productive mid-sized cities... look at the gap in the middle of the orange bubbles

Today we published an explainer looking at ONS numbers on British migrants; what we know and what we don't know. www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...

A ceasefire was declared in Lebanon on April 16. The data tells a different story. @fadahjassem.bsky.social and I analysed figures from @acleddata.bsky.social, UNHCR, and Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, and here are some of the numbers🧵 #datajournalism #datavisualization #dataviz

I shared the data from this recent interactive #TwinCities visualisation for this week's #TidyTuesday #DataViz challenge. So cool to see what people came up with. A few examples in this 🧵... bsky.app/profile/both... 1/n

Ahmad Barclay@bothness.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ever wondered what a network of twin cities around the world would look like? I grabbed some data from #Wikidata a while ago, and thought #Experimental day 5 of the #30DayChartChallenge was a good excuse to share this half-finished gizmo with the world. Enjoy! bothness.github.io/twin-cities/ 1/3

Ooh. Stats explained using the art of witchcraft...

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Updated my textbook with a cleaner lay-out, better accessibility, and eight new interactive visualizations made completely in html (such as this illustration of the positive predictive value). lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Israeli soldiers are detonating entire villages in South Lebanon while taking selfies. Ancient mosques, churches, cemeteries, schools, hospitals - all being obliterated by the genocidal regime www.instagram.com/reel/DWrg5xi...

Fantastic piece this on neuroscience, brain development and what this tells us about AI in educational settings:

The Cost of No Friction

Adolescence happens once.

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⏳ Deadline extended! Submissions for Visualising Climate 2026 are now open until 14 May (00:00 CET). We welcome talks, workshops & papers. Science, art & data storytelling meet. Come see the data. Imagine new ways forward. #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataViz Join us in Bologna visualisingclimate.com

Visualising Climate 2026 — Conference

The first global conference dedicated to how data visualisation can transform public understanding of climate change and support informed decision-making.

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People are good sometimes. I’m a disabled writer and editor who can’t offer preorders but everyone is coming together to make sure that I have my needs met while I put together this anthology. Just 10% to go now. www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Thyme Travellers 2

An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

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#Day19: Evolution Tried a chart about the evolution of charts! Centuries of trying to understand the world through data and graphics visualised. Data: www.datavis.ca/milestones/ by @datavisfriendly.bsky.social #30DayChartChallenge #dataviz @infobeautiful.bsky.social @datavizsociety.bsky.social

#HottingUp! A visualisation of the warmest years on record in 180 countries around the world. A belated entry for the #30DayChartChallenge Day 20 theme of #GlobalChange. 🧵1/4

I've recently made some changes to the gallery of all my data visualisations 📊 Most examples now have links to the underlying source code! If you see something you like, you can see how it was made 🤩 #DataViz #RStats

Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One of the things that has been on my to do list for a very long time, is building a gallery of all of the charts I've made across #TidyTuesday, #30DayChartChallenge, #30DayMapChallenge, and other miscellaneous projects 📊 And it's finally here! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/viz-gallery/ #DataViz #RStats

All that remains of the southern Lebanese village of Aita al-Shaab.

Ever wondered what a network of twin cities around the world would look like? I grabbed some data from #Wikidata a while ago, and thought #Experimental day 5 of the #30DayChartChallenge was a good excuse to share this half-finished gizmo with the world. Enjoy! bothness.github.io/twin-cities/ 1/3

The share of female astronauts among the crew members on space missions has risen slowly over the past few decades. Nevertheless, the crew remains predominantly male. Inspired by the #ArtemisII mission. #30DayChartChallenge | Day 3 - Mosaic #ggplot2

You’ve read heaps about the Strait of Hormuz recently. This visual guide by Al Jazeera features cool maps (worth skimming over even if you’ve done your research already). Source: aje.news/ttm5q7

Giving this a go, and I found loops like Dunedin - Edinburgh - Saint Petersburg - Shanghai -Dunedin interesting. But I am just as interested in what must be the history behind singletons like Otaru (only paired with Dunedin) bothness.github.io/twin-cities/

Ahmad Barclay@bothness.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Ever wondered what a network of twin cities around the world would look like? I grabbed some data from #Wikidata a while ago, and thought #Experimental day 5 of the #30DayChartChallenge was a good excuse to share this half-finished gizmo with the world. Enjoy! bothness.github.io/twin-cities/ 1/3

Ever wondered what a network of twin cities around the world would look like? I grabbed some data from #Wikidata a while ago, and thought #Experimental day 5 of the #30DayChartChallenge was a good excuse to share this half-finished gizmo with the world. Enjoy! bothness.github.io/twin-cities/ 1/3

So grateful to @bothness.bsky.social for introducing me to the Bluesky tag #30DayChartChallenge What a glorious series of posts to appreciate by so many folk around the world, inc @allisonhorst.bsky.social example below ❤️

Here's a starter pack in case you'd like to follow all of the beautiful nerds responsible for the nifty #charts 📊, #maps 🗺️ and fun interactive #DataVis tools (+ occasional games/quizzes) published by the ONS... And also some #30DayChartChallenge entries this month! go.bsky.app/Cq2r7z6

Just one day - or, depending on your timezone maybe just a few hours - until the next #30DayChartChallenge kicks off. 🚀 1 prompt for each day of April across 5 categories to spark inspiration, experimentation, and learning. 📊 Who's in? 👀 #dataviz #datavisualization

The Kickstarter for Thyme Travellers 2 is launching soon. Follow to get notified when the page is live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

Coming soon: Thyme Travellers 2

An anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction

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Watch out for some exciting charts from the ONS #DataViz team this month as part of the #30DayChartChallenge. I'll try to add them all to this 🧵 1/n

Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Day 1 of the #30DayChartChallenge: Part to Whole 📊 🍩 Donut chart made with #RStats showing the percentage of people who rank different terms as more likely than 'likely' #30DayChartChallenge2026 #Day1