Gregor Aisch
@driven-by-data.net
Senior Visual Data Journalist at @zeit.de. Co-founder and former CTO of @datawrapper.de. Former @nytimes.com graphics editor #datajournalism #graphics #maps #cartography #dataviz (he/him)
Heute ist auch wieder die #Hitze 🥵 ein Thema. Nicht nur steigen die Temperaturen 🌡️ auf bis zu knapp 40°C, gleichzeitig ist es auch noch enorm schwül bei Taupunkten 💦 um 20°C. Dementsprechend laufen #Warnungen vor starker (hellviolett) oder extremer (dunkelviolett) #Wärmebelastung im ganzen Land.
Die #Feuer in Frankreich gehen weiter: jetzt mussten schon über 250.000 Menschen evakuiert werden. Hier eine Karte der Lage am Sonntagmorgen und mein Foto von der Fahrt nach Bordeaux am Freitagabend. Warum die #Erderhitzung die Brandgefahr eskalieren lässt: scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...
Die US-Regierung hat beschlossen, die Visadauer für internationale Journalist*innen auf 240 Tage zu verkürzen. Das erhöht nicht nur bürokratische Hürden, sondern führt zu extremer Unsicherheit: Das Heimatschutzministerium kann Anträge willkürlich ablehnen.
In April we published a searchable index of the Nazi Party membership files. Now we are following up with a database of personnel files of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and Schutzstaffel (SS), which were responsible for some of the most horrendous crimes in German history. www.zeit.de/wissenschaft...
SS-Akten: Durchsuchen Sie die Personalakten von SA und SS nach Ihrer Familie
SA und SS mordeten im Namen der NS-Ideologie. Wir haben Hunderttausende Akten erstmals aufbereitet: Recherchieren Sie in Lebensläufen, Briefen oder Charakterzeugnissen.
zeit.de
"98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI" ☝🏻 Report: How developers react to AI-scented blog posts writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reacti... Bookmarked.
Report: How Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts
98% of readers prefer imperfect-yet-authentic human writing; most will stop reading, block you, and downvote you if they suspect AI
writethatblog.substack.com
Cynthia Dunlop@cynthiadunlop.bsky.social · last mo.Here are the results writethatblog.substack.com/p/dev-reacti...
In Frankreich steht die dritte große #Hitzewelle dieses Jahres an. Schon wieder drohen über mehrere Tage Temperaturen um oder über 40 Grad. Es ist hier ein bisher historischer Sommer. #canicule kachelmannwetter.com/de/modellkar... /LD
Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...
SPD, stoppt den Frontalangriff auf die Informationsfreiheit!
Wir alle haben das Recht auf staatliche Informationen. Seit 2006 müssen Behörden auf Antrag nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) Dokumente herausgeben – seien es Verträge, interne Weisungen oder...
weact.campact.de
NEU: Die Bundesregierung plant den schwersten Angriff auf staatliche Transparenz in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik. Das IFG soll abgeschafft werden. Das ist nicht nur ein Bruch des Koalitionsvertrags, sondern beschädigt Presse- und Informationsfreiheit massiv. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/poli...
Beschluss des Koalitionsausschusses: SPD und Union planen Abschaffung des IFG
Es ist der schwerste Angriff auf staatliche Transparenz in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik: Der Koalitionsauschuss von SPD, CDU und CSU hat beschlossen, das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz de facto abzu...
fragdenstaat.de
JUST POSTED PART II A NYT ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTS OF INTERESTS EVIDENT IN TRUMP's $2.2 BILLION HAUL (free link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...
The Key Ways Trump’s Financial Interests Intersect With Government Policy
nytimes.com
All visualizations (except the map) in this project where built with #SveltePlot by @driven-by-data.net. Very nice to work with, offering quite some flexibility in terms of custom marks and responsive adaptation.
Ralph Spandl@spandl.ca · last mo.Public data is only useful if people can actually use it. After Montréal restored public access to its bike counter data last month, I decided to built a dashboard to explore cycling trends across these counters. 🚲 compteurs-cycliste.r42.ca Regularly updated as new data becomes available.
Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting
"but where are all the bluesky instances?" i've heard this so many times that i wrote an explainer
There Are No Instances in atproto — overreacted
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overreacted.io
Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?
Researchers have created the first high-resolution global map of the extent of one of Earth’s largest—and least visible—living networks
See the hidden fungal network so big it could stretch to Proxima Centauri and back
Researchers have created the first high-resolution global map of the extent of one of Earth’s largest—and least visible—living networks
scientificamerican.com
✨ New project! ✨ Mapping the hidden infrastructure which connects to >70% of plants, extends root networks up to 100x and reaches a length of 1 BILLION times the distance to the sun 🤯 Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi! Learn all about them here: a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth w/ @spun.earth 💚
A hidden infrastructure
Mapping Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the hidden infrastructure beneath our feet.
a-hidden-infrastructure.spun.earth
Here’s a really nice (and sad) story by my colleagues Katherine Chui and Catrin Einhorn. Truly a great multimedia piece to enjoy with sound on tinyurl.com/5dmu42zs gift link 🐳 🎧
the single biggest criticism svelte has received over the years is 'you can't have multiple components in a file'. so we fixed it! by making them unnecessary. with declaration tags (svelte.dev/docs/svelte/...), snippets/each blocks/etc can have their own state: svelte.dev/playground/a...
Antoine@antleth.fr · 2mo ago@const is dead, long live const! Svelte 5.56 allows for raw let/const ANYWHERE in the markup within {} brackets, deprecating {@const} This is huge! svelte-changelog.dev/pull/sveltej...
demoscapes.org is a visual atlas of demographic surfaces hosted at @mpidr.bsky.social. It is also my passion project growing out of my 2016 human mortality database explorer. Did you publish something containing Lexis surfaces? Consider reaching out and having your work featured on the site.
Leah Abrams@leahrabrams.bsky.social · 3mo agoCheck out @jschoeley.com's very cool project: Demoscapes! It now features interactive Lexis surfaces based on our recent PNAS paper tracking cohort trends in major causes of death in the US. It's (to us data lovers) so fun! demoscapes.org/collections/...
Wer sich in den vergangenen Wochen etwas mit der NSDAP-Mitgliederkartei beschäftigt hat, musste irritiert sein vom Stunt von Correctiv und Katapult. Viel zu spät haben die Medienhäuser begriffen, was sie da am Dienstag rausgehauen haben. Nun mussten sie ihre Veröffentlichungen zurückziehen. 1/12
Hey, I wonder how you're all dealing with agent-generated code! Do you keep a log of prompts? Do you commit after each prompt? For a recent project, I set up this Claude hook for exactly this (log prompt + commit w/ summary message) gist.github.com/gka/ce1d8c5a... Are there any best practices?
log-and-commit-prompt.sh
GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
omfg - the first link in this week‘s index: fraude.design
Fraude Design
The AI-free site builder for genius founders
fraude.design
Piccalilli@piccalil.li · 3mo agoIt’s Friday, so let’s close out the week with some Good Links™ in The Index #180! Sponsored by the fantastic CodePen 2.0. piccalil.li/the-index/180/
The FT @financialtimes.com is hiring a new data journalist to join our US data and visuals team in New York. Great job, great team, great place to work. Apply here 👉 job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
US Data Journalist
New York; Washington DC
job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io
Experimental: PickyPalette — a color picker that shows you the weight of each color as you build your palette. See how much space a color claims. Every color fights for its territory in the color space. So you know exactly how dominant or subtle your pick is. WDYT? meodai.github.io/color-palett...
Three weeks ago, we published an interactive story that lets our readers find their relatives in the Nazi Party membership archives. The response has been overwhelming, both in Germany and internationally. The story was covered by outlets such as Le Monde, CBC, Radio-Canada and CNN.
A new search engine that allows users to search Nazi party records in order to find out whether their ancestors were card-carrying members has been accessed millions of times since it was launched earlier this month. https://cnn.it/4tZZBiF
Can we please acknowledge that whatever AI #Apple is using for categorizing shopping list items in the Reminders app is the dumbest piece of software that has ever existed? How f$#^& hard can this be?
“.. Inflation was coming down in the United States — and then Trump’s tariffs happened.” @heathmayo.bsky.social
“The Weight of Rain” is back! Video of my 2014 talk disappeared for years, but Visualized kindly pulled a copy from their archives: style.org/visualized/
The Weight of Rain
My talk at Visualized.
style.org
