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Danielle Alberti

@daniellealberti.bsky.social

Axios managing editor for data viz, previously at Pew Research My favorite things are quilts, birds, books and maps https://www.daniellealberti.com

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Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's hard to pick favorites with my quilts, but I'm afraid this one might take first place. It was very much a skill-building project, from working with the gradient fabric to my first time hand-quilting and hand-binding. And obvi jackalopes are badass. (Original pattern via Amelia at Summer Sleet)

A small quilt showing two jackrabbits against an orange and red background. The quilting design includes intricate stitching and texture, highlighting the rabbits' fur and the landscape.A small quilt showing two jackrabbits against an orange and red background. The quilting design includes intricate stitching and texture, highlighting the rabbits' fur and the landscape.A small quilt showing two jackrabbits against an orange and red background. The quilting design includes intricate stitching and texture, highlighting the rabbits' fur and the landscape.A small quilt showing two jackrabbits against an orange and red background. The quilting design includes intricate stitching and texture, highlighting the rabbits' fur and the landscape.
Jacque Schrag@jacqueschrag.com · 3w ago

New story from @pudding.cool is out, featuring some unique #dataviz forms I immediately added to my inspo bookmarks. The sankey + vocab list combo was especially good

The Pudding@pudding.cool · 3w ago

New project! Two influential word lists made by language researchers define an "essential English vocabulary" for learners: one from 1953 and another from 2023. In this essay, Jasmine Nackash examines the differences between them and what that says about us. link: pudding.cool/2026/07/esse...

Jason Rabinowitz@airlineflyer.net · 2mo ago

A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it.

Steven Rich@datab.ae · 4mo ago

relatedly, the best editors are the ones who both make your prose better and who challenge your worldview and how you express it

Steven Rich@datab.ae · 4mo ago

i think one of the biggest flaws a lot of writers have, especially opinion writers, is this innate belief that their experience is *the* universal experience and when it manifests itself in a piece it annoys me to no end

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 5mo ago

My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've been birding for a while now and I still get unreasonably excited about a bird I've seen a hundred times. The common ones don't get any less good. There's probably a thought-leader-y data viz lesson in there somewhere but I'm not going to make it into a metaphor right now.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Google's constantly giving me pop-ups telling me I've used 89% of my storage space, so I need to buy more immediately. I've had this account for over 20 years and it took me that long to get to 89%, so I just don't feel like I'm going to use that last 11% imminently.

Meghan Hoyer@meghanhoyer.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Alyssa is both a serious data journalist with immense technical chops and a super-talented visualization guru, figuring out all sorts of solutions to create the best storytelling approach. Plus she's a great collaborative partner :) Someone needs to hire her ASAP.

Alyssa Fowers@alyssafowers.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I was laid off from the Washington Post today, along with hundreds (!!!) of incredible colleagues. If you need a data journalist, chart designer, or wacky-idea-specialist, give me a shout!

Ilana Masad@ilanaslightly.bsky.social · 11mo ago

BEINGS is out today! Writing can be a lonely project (and this book is about loneliness in many ways) but it is absolutely impossible, at least for me, without having a community of people who have your back (and this book is also, in many ways, about having, needing, or finding community).

photo of me, a white queer with glasses and long hair wearing a white tank top, holding my second novel, BEINGS, which is out today.photo of BEINGS's dedication, which reads:To Mike, who kicked this whole thing off, and to Micha, who unknowingly helped finish it Photo of BEINGS's epigraphs which read: Safe journey, space fans, wherever you are. - Stephen Hill, host and producer of Hearts of Space "It is not that I have no past. Rather, it continually fragments on the terrible and vivid ephemera of now." - Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren Words change depending on who speaks them; there is no cure. - Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts The start of BEINGS's acknowledgements (which are five pages long) which reads: Before I get to the thank-yous, I want to acknowledge that any misrepresentations of or factual errors regarding real places, time periods, or people--and any mistakes in general--are entirely my own. There are many, many people to thank (some of whom don't know I exist but whom I feel compelled to acknowledge anyway), so let's get started. Thank you to Mike Cahill, to whom this book is dedicated, for always listening to podcasts while making dinner, for letting me interrupt you...
Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti.bsky.social · last yr.

The best part about taking a trip is coming home and watching your inbox fill up with pleas to fill out surveys and write reviews for the hotel, the restaurants, the airline, the train, the rideshares, the theatre tickets, the tours.