Maarten Lambrechts
@maartenzam.bsky.social
Data visualization consultant at the Development Data Group of the World Bank www.maartenlambrechts.com
Stripes 1.1, my macOS screensaver, adds a tenth style, Warming. It builds the warming stripes from the coldest year to the warmest. Thanks to @cedricscherer.com for the idea! Download at karaman.is/blog/2026/10... or github.com/gkaramanis/s... #ShowYourStripes
The Guardian’s Visual & Data Journalism team is expanding! We have three exciting new roles, and we're looking for people who can help us push the boundaries of how we find, report and tell stories. 🧵⬇️
Fun locator map in Montparnasse station, Paris. Turn the whole thing and the map spins to be oriented toward the way you’re facing.
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Ships at Maas anchorage, swinging around their anchors with the tide during a 24hr period
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps
Crafting Apps: open-source creative tools
Image editing, vector illustration, video, photography, PDFs, motion graphics and page layout: seven native, open-source apps from the ArtCraft team, built in Rust and free to use.
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This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
The White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.”
Offshore wind turbines can leave their mark on the sea — quite literally. 🌊 #Sentinel2 reveals striking sediment plumes behind turbine foundations in the shallow waters off eastern China. Our new #BCEarthGallery post explores these patterns. #EarthObservation #Sediment Check it out: bit.ly/4rAXtO5
I've been wanting to make this for ages... finally got around to finishing it. Here's my family tree of French sauces! Are you hungry yet? #infographic #dataviz #cooking #sauces #foodinfographic
Happy to finally build and release the color ramp creator I’ve always wanted to use. Phosphor generates perceptually linear gradients and lets you edit, share, and export them for use in ArcGIS Pro, QGIS, GDAL, and other formats. I hope you find it helpful. www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/
Phosphor
Multi-hue color gradients with perceptually linear lightness. Export to CSS, Python, QGIS, ArcGIS Pro or GDAL.
joshuastevens.net
I've made an interactive map for exploring the terrain of the world! It uses @mapterhorn.com data and tiles, and WebGL for dynamic colors and animations. relief.bertspaan.nl/world?lang=en
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
Information+ 2027 is coming to Milan! Join us on 7-9 June 2027 at Politecnico di Milano for three days of presentations, talks, workshops and exhibition pieces around information design and data visualization. The website is now live: informationplusconference.com #InformationPlus2027
1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory
Just like many planes don't have a Row 13, the UNEP overshoot report does not have a "Section 1.5".
Instant classic, like the original. I learned so much from these
Craig Harrington@craigipedia.bsky.social · last mo.Oh my gosh, the best political video on YouTube just got updated after a decade and a half and it's still just perfect! It visualizes something that I've talked about a lot since the first video came out: The real problem is the billionaire class. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Gxl...
@steflhermitte.bsky.social, nice job using the PlanetScope data and the Planet Explorer to show what happened in Nepal in the news :) www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/ki...
VIDEO Glacioloog toont met satellietbeelden hoe ramp in Nepal ontstond | VRT NWS Nieuws
Glacioloog toont met satellietbeelden hoe ramp in Nepal ontstond. Bekijk de video op VRT NWS: nieuws.
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Come work with my team on the very best beat: the Economics of Climate Change!!! Excited to make many beautiful charts with whoever gets this gig :) job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...
De #Sentinel satellieten maken beelden in verschillende golflengtegebieden. Het nabije infrarood (SWIR) geeft duidelijk de brandhaarden op 16/08 aan in de #HogeVenen (met geel-oranje kleur). De satelliet passeert echter maar om de paar dagen over dezelfde plaats. Is de start zichtbaar? 1/n
Google Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...
Transform any place with Nano Banana in Google Earth
Custom images — generated from Google Earth satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery — help you redesign any location.
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📊 My and @jhilden.bsky.social’s book has been out of print for some time, as our publisher closed down its general publishing arm. We are working on a 2nd edition, but it is not going to be ready anytime soon, so we’re making the current edition available as an e-book for €9.90. payhip.com/b/zbl43
Data visualization handbook
The Data visualization handbook by Juuso Koponen and Jonatan Hildén is a practical guide for creating compelling graphics to explain and explore data. It is primarily aimed at designers, journalists, ...
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