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 · last wk.

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...

Announcing that I am officially on board of the organisation team of the Information Design Conference (Oct 30th Hilversum, NL) 🥳🙌 I have been involved for a bit already, arranging speakers plus other stuff and I will be there behind the curtains, #dataviz #conference #IDC26 1/4

Information Design Conference | Hilversum

Get ready for IDC26: an inspiring day about information design, infographics and data visualization in The Netherlands

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Capital Weather@capitalweather.com · 3w ago

DC still ranks as the world's third most polluted city Saturday morning. Wildfire smoke down but not out. Still Code Red levels lingering although there should be gradual improvement this afternoon, w/ Code Orange expected. Late day storms should help disperse smoke. Details at CapitalWeather.com

The South Carolina senator “passed away from a brief and sudden illness,” his office said in a statement. https://www.notus.org/senate/lindsey-graham-died

Lindsey Graham Has Died at 71

The senator’s office said he died after “ a brief and sudden illness.”

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We’ve revamped our pitch guidelines to help us surface the best ideas faster! 📢 Have a data story you're obsessed with telling? We want to hear it. pudding.cool/pitch/

Pitch a Story

How to collaborate on a story with The Pudding.

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🚨We're hiring!🚨 The @data.ft.com team is hiring a graphics journalist. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

25 years of NBA champions. Only 5 “ethical” rings. We crunched the playoff injury data to see which titles actually hold up without an asterisk. Let us know how mad you are in the comments. Remember, we don’t make the rules, the data does. #nba #dataviz pudding.cool/2026/06/ethi...

Ethical NBA Championships, Ranked

Which teams don’t need asterisks by their title?

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🗺️ 📣 I've been off bluesky for a while, but popping in to announce Graticule, my new app for making maps! graticule.org It's a work-in-progress but I'd love to hear any feedback. What features would you like to see next?

This is really promising. If you've ever looked for a map online that you could tweak, @willchase.bsky.social is building the vector map creator of your dreams (beta mode). 📊 🗺️ For me at least (a non-expert at GIS who needs quick maps), this fills an important gap. graticule.org

I’m just afraid that now I won’t get to hear what religion everyone’s mayor and bagels are anymore.

Happily ever afters often get thrown in our face, but rarely do we talk honestly about the hard work it takes to sustain a relationship. We tracked 1,000+ people over the course of 5 years + a pandemic. #lovestory #dataviz #thepudding pudding.cool/2026/06/love...

@erindataviz.bsky.social is back on her #dataviz names streak 👀 TIL I'm ~30 years younger than the average Jacqueline.

Erin Da(ta)vis@erindataviz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Coming out of my cave to share a new blog post: erdavis.com/2026/05/29/w... Still banging on about names. This time, I found the oldest name (as determined by average age of living people with that name) is... Myrtle! Included is a li'l interactive to look at your own name ☺️

We accidentally Pavlov’d our dog to alerting us to when the Mister Softee truck comes through our neighborhood. She got a pup cup one time and it changed her brain chemistry forever. It’s incredible to watch in real time.

WeRateDogs@weratedogs.com · 2mo ago

This is Edward. He was given 6 months to live after being found as a stray. His family was determined to give him the best few months possible, so they introduced him to the ice cream truck. That was 27 months ago. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: magnificent_foster_dogs)

This is one of the cooler uses of a pie chart I've seen in the wild. It's like that sky/pyramid illusion, but with real data! S/O to Ceren Dolma @datawrapper.de for this clever #dataviz! www.datawrapper.de/blog/twiligh...

Very cool #dataviz! Kudos to the developers too - the UX is incredibly smooth.

Joanna Bagniewska@joannabagniewska.com · 3mo ago

Have you heard of OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer? It's a great tool for visualising how all biodiversity in the world is related. And since it's #BiodiversityDay, well... Find yourself a friend whose love language is "I sponsored a slime mold for you". www.onezoom.org 🧪🌏 🦊🐦🐝 #biodiversity

If you use LLMs to do your data analysis, or if you listen to people who do, you should read this kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signa...

Real signals or artificial stereotypes?

Adventures with a cultural Copilot

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Your reminder to stop and smell the flowers on this beautiful sunny day!☀️🐺 #HappySunday

Wonderful, enraging post by Ana about experiences many of us have had. The only “woman in tech” talk I want to attend at this point is one where a man tells his fellow men to do the bare minimum & be a decent human being. And then follows up by actively calling out the shitty behavior as it happens

Ana Rodrigues@ohhelloana.blog · 3mo ago

It's often uneasy for me to share my experiences as a woman in tech, but this job market has me worried for everyone stuck somewhere harmful. I admire everyone who takes on "women in tech" speaking gigs but I am also angry for them and us. ohhelloana.blog/woman-in-tec...

Similes are all around us. But, if you haven’t considered this figure of speech since grade school this visual essay is for you: pudding.cool/2026/05/simi...

🚨Job🚨 at @data.ft.com: We're hiring a data journalist in the US, based in New York or Washington #ddj: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

Reminder that if you’re looking for a curated feed for #dataviz, it exists! It’s curated in the sense that I have to add you to a user list (nearly 500 users!) to have your appropriately tagged posts show up. It’s a nice balance between only your followers & the firehose of just the hashtag/topic

Ansgar Wolsing@ansgarw.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Here's a #dataviz feed: bsky.app/profile/jacq...

Florence and the Machine are truly one of the greats 💚

BIG OPEN VISUALIZATION ACADEMY UPDATE: 10+ more instructors and 10+ more courses to be released on a monthly basis #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization @alyssafowers.bsky.social @elsieleerobbins.bsky.social @petrinkae.bsky.social @rsimmon.bsky.social and many others

A big update on the Open Visualization Academy

New instructors, new courses, and what to expect in the next 12-15 months

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I don't think the creator is on Bluesky, but saw this pop up in my LinkedIn feed for #30DayMapChallenge and it was just too cool to not share with the #dataviz feed here. What a fun concept! 🪩

#30daymapchallenge #100daymapchallenge #threejs #webgl #datavisualization #cartography #etopo1 #noaa #creativecoding #animation | Alexa Cristina

Day 66. Disco Earth 🪩 Sometimes a serious dataset is a good excuse for something playful, especially when the goal is material and motion rather than reference mapping. Built for #30DayMapChallenge ...

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AND THEY SIT AT THE BAR AND PUT CHEESE IN MY JAR AND SAY MAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE

Another Angry Woman@stavvers.bsky.social · last yr.

On this day in 2006, Neil banged out the tunes

Science is good. We should fund it.

@marijanapav.com This digital stamp collection is one of the coolest web projects I've seen in a long time! Beautifully designed, fun to use, and delightful to explore ✨

Scrollytelling in space! Really excellent work by @driven-by-data.net and team!

Gregor Aisch@driven-by-data.net · 4mo ago

If all goes to plan, tomorrow night, a spacecraft with four astronauts will start its mission toward the moon - the first time since 1972. To illustrate the journey, we set out with a simple yet crazy idea: Let’s show this journey to scale. Here's the result: www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...

Forever and always, trans rights are human rights.