end of an era. the lesson one should not take from this is that human annotation/labeling is over, but the players have changed. scale, surge, companies that work at larger scale, have taken over.

Techmeme@techmeme.com · last mo.

AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement (Simon Sharwood/The Register) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

I miss many social media interactions I had when I was very active, but my appetite for posting has just slowly dwindled since the post-Twitter community fracture... not sure if that energy will come back. Also, I'm apparently like 2 months away from embarrassing old-guy Internet nostalgia posts.

This video of @hankgreen.bsky.social crashing out for 30 straight minutes over graph manipulation & rhetoric makes me feel very seen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSgD...

A Masterclass in Manipulation

YouTube video by Hank Green

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I travelled 27 hrs, fought endless visa issues to give this talk for our award-winning paper at #CHI2026. Your turn to show up 📍 P1, Room 112, Apr 15 (Wed), 12 noon. But why? I wish the didn't impact every knowledge worker. Sadly, it does, and we need to talk about it. 1/n

If you're interested in pursing a teaching-focused academic career in computing, make sure to check out the (online) workshop series that @peck.phd and I will be running in May!

Computing Research Association (CRA)@cra-hq.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Thinking about a teaching-focused academic career in computing? Join the free, virtual CRA-E Workshop Series (May 5, 12, 19). Register: https://cra.org/crae/career-landscape-workshop/2026-workshop/

After attending 10 of 11 @acm-sigchi.bsky.social CHIs from 2009-2019, I'm going for the first time in 7 years next week; now with a new rank, new institution, new lab, and new gray hairs. Feel free to send me a DM/email. I'm eager to reconnect with folks I haven't seen in too-long #chi2026

WTF does this mean, past-Evan?

Since I'm using Ziptable to share data in my own class, I made a small change a couple of days ago to make my instructor flow better You can now filter columns to reduce dataset size, share shorter links, or choose targeted exports (e.g. to Datawrapper) Orig 🧵 on Ziptable: bsky.app/profile/peck...

Evan Peck@peck.phd · 5mo ago

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

A quick update to ziptbl.com: you can now open shared data directly in @datawrapper.de! The video shows the full flow: load data into Ziptable > share the link > create a 📊 in Datawrapper As always: the data stays off any servers until you send it to Datawrapper - it's just compressed in the url

Holy smokes - thanks for all the ZipTable love! A small update: - 🗺️ GeoJSONs! Share geo data and open it directly in geojson.io (vid) - Better sharing guidance based on link length (email vs. Slack vs. SMS) - Faster! Only 65 KBs on 1st load now. Repeat visits are ~3.5 KB. That's dial-up modem fast 😂

I made a tiny tool for quickly sharing small datasets (< ~1000 rows) without uploading any data to a server. 🔗 ziptbl.com It compresses the data into the link itself, so there’s no account, hosting, or storage layer involved. Here's Florence Nightingale's famous 📊 data: ziptbl.com#d=eNpdlE-LGz...

Data/design folks, what is your favorite visual that focuses on the human cost of violence, tragedies and disasters? The most emotionally impactful visualization? The most visually striking? Please share! I'd like to get as many examples as possible.

It's (finally) getting easier to produce accessible PDFs with LaTeX in Overleaf: www.overleaf.com/blog/accessi...

Accessible PDFs with LaTeX

An online LaTeX editor that’s easy to use. No installation, real-time collaboration, version control, hundreds of LaTeX templates, and more.

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Olympic medals are a good place to play with the Emojicon Creator I made last year: emojicon-creator.netlify.app 20 USA medals: 6 x 🥇, 9 x 🥈, 5 x 🥉: 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈🥈 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉 or 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈 🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉

I'm all for creating engaging visuals to capture attention, but I have mixed feelings about interactives that seem to use the visual language of charts to imply more data than is represented. I don't get much from the interaction, but maybe more people will read? 🔗 www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

An interesting 📊 choice from ESPN's Olympic medal coverage. By giving each country its own axis-range, the bar for USA's 8 silver medals is the same height as Norway's 12 gold. If you're trying to compare countries at a glance, USA's bars are all bit taller than they should be.

Two snowpack maps, similar data, very different vibes. In my vis courses, I always talk to my students about how color associations can manipulate the story of a visualization. This is a great, recent (and local!) example.

another look at this generational chart crime

I've been running a new vis course this semester that empowers students to invest in the vis tools, topics, practices that best align with their careers. Having a set of well-crafted resources like this to pass on is wonderful.

Alberto Cairo@albertocairo.com · 6mo ago

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and masked secret police roam our streets murdering civilians and abducting the witnesses. But at least now we have full sovereignty over a couple of military bases in Greenland.

I love how this graphic is totally unhelpful for determining whether you're going to get 30 inches of snow or half an inch of ice.

(the game is currently 24-21 with 6 minutes left, and Toney has 115 yards)

Given its quality + faithfulness to source material, I'm still not over The Odyssey going to Christopher Nolan instead of the Muppets

Evan Peck@peck.phd · 2y ago

I've done nothing wrong if my kids grow up believing that this is Charles Dickens

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

If you can't find me, I'm the one home sick 😷. It has been such a great semester together, and we're excited to share some of our ongoing research next year with you!

jonathan zong@jonathanzong.com · 8mo ago

the @data-and-design.org and information visions (@peck.phd) labs celebrated the end of the semester together yesterday! thanks for a great 2025!

the @data-and-design.org and information visions (@peck.phd) labs celebrated the end of the semester together yesterday! thanks for a great 2025!

#CHI2026 Student Mentoring Program is open for applications: chi2026.acm.org/authors/stud... with a brand new program: (1) CHI 101 (2) Building a Research Cohort (3) Dissertation Research Roundtable Deadline: 22 Jan! RT friends of @acm-sigchi.bsky.social @chi.acm.org

These are the kinds of example I love discussing with students. What does a city with 19.5%🔴 the workforce look like vs. a city with 20.1%⚫ of the workforce? 🤔 (I feel like I'm picking on the Economist a lot, but their charts consistently get promoted to me + glitch my brain)

I'll always donate part of my day to a good optical illusion, so here are a whole bunch of them: optical.toys

Not the first time that Anthropic has used truncated bar graph axes to visually exaggerate their performance vs competitors. 🔗 x.com/claudeai/sta...