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Tamara Munzner

@munzner.bsky.social

Visualization prof at UBC CS, author of Visualization Analysis and Design. https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm/ and many videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnuYznpiC6fO0XyLKGAGFng. See also mastodon at https://cosocial.ca/@tamara

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kepano@stephango.com · 3d ago

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

Xan Gregg@xangregg.bsky.social · 2d ago

The rollercoaster of getting a paper's data ↗ available in Zenodo repository ↘ 2GB, too big for Safari ↗ curl works ↗ files organized by figure ↘ it's only the figures ↗ there's also a code repo with a notebook ↘ nb depends on absent data files ↗ nb includes some static data ↘ not enough for plot

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d ago

2019 video of Heidi the Octopus, captured by Dr. David Scheel, a professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage & aired on PBS Nature program "Octopus: Making Contact". We think the color changes are the results of Heidi dreaming as she sleeps. Let's talk about it.

Nathan Lauster@lausterna.bsky.social · 2d ago

New post with @jensvb.bsky.social on the mystery behind Maple Street's spooky disappearing act, and how it's connected to Vancouver's housing shortage. Warning: there could be some time travel back to the 1970s involved, so bring your tie-dyes & bell bottoms! homefreesociology.com/2026/10/17/c...

Counterfactual Kitsilano

(Joint with Jens von Bergmann r and cross-posted at MountainMath) There are fun little mysteries all over Vancouver. Like how come Maple Street disappears between 6th and 7th Ave in Kitsilano? And …

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Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 2d ago

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

Tamara Munzner@munzner.bsky.social · 2d ago

Perfect timing, map projection lecture is this coming week, will demo this in my grad class. I love that I can make the projection point wrap around from positive to negative infinity. Just the right companion to the philogb.github.io/page/myriahe... demo that goes with the paper they're reading.

Nicolas Garcia Belmonte

Myriahedral Projections: Unfolding the Earth

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Daniel Huffman@pinakographos.bsky.social · 5d ago

What an excellent visualization tool. I would have loved to have had this available when I used to teach cartography. hypertidy.github.io/playproj/

Screenshot from the linked online site. Shows a wireflame globe and wireframe map. Lines connect the globe to the map, showing the projection.
Tamara Munzner@munzner.bsky.social · 2d ago

A brave, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful essay on what it means to rebuild and reconnect with academia, after the body and mind throw a halt: "research and science are what we do, not who we are" www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-e...

When external meanings collapse

They say that almost all people reach a moment in life when their life meanings collapse. Some call this depression, some a midlife crisis, and some just burning out – being busy with things that do n...

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Datawrapper@datawrapper.de · 7d ago

This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers Brazil’s age distribution 👥, Thailand's Girls' Love industry 📺🇹🇭, Trump's false election claims 🗳️, America's most popular fruit 🇺🇸, and the 2026 Nobel Prize winners🏆. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog👇 www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

An infographic illustrating the growth of Thailand's Girls' Love industry. In 2022, GAP The Series was the first Girls' Love series to air on Thai free-to-air television. It reached millions of viewers and attracted international audiences across Asia and Latin America. By 2026, the genre had grown, with 33 Girls' Love series having aired or being set to air, bringing the total number of airings on free television since 2022 to 52. Published by Kontinentalist.A Sankey diagram showcasing China’s current green energy generation and the excess resulting in significant amounts of unused energy. In the first half of 2026 alone, approximately 9% of China's wind and solar energy was left unused. Published by Bloomberg.A population pyramid showing Brazil’s age distribution from 1950 to a projected 2100. While the population was 53.4 million in 1950, it is projected to reach 163 million by 2100. Published by Karim Douïeb.A visualization showcasing the lives of Nobel laureates from their birth year to the year they won their prize in physics, chemistry, or medicine. The youngest winner was Lawrence Bragg, who won the Physics Prize at the age of 25, while the oldest was John B. Goodenough, who won the Chemistry Prize at the age of 97. Published by Elia Kabanov.
Cambridge Day@cambridgeday.com · 2w ago

MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network Tenured faculty are using rhinestones and googly eyes to demonstrate against 500-plus new cameras and plans to potentially implement AI capabilities....

MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network

Tenured faculty are using rhinestones and googly eyes to demonstrate against 500-plus new cameras and plans to potentially implement AI capabilities.

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Jens von Bergmann@jensvb.bsky.social · last wk.

Haven't had time to check out cool new technology recently, but decided to try parquet and DuckDB-WASM for cheap interactive Canada-wide dot-density maps. This is running in the browser backed by remote hosted parquet. Still lots of room for improvement, but this already works quite well.

Nick Sousanis@nsousanis.bsky.social · last wk.

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!