Neil Richards

@questionsindataviz.com

Dataviz blogger, author, Hall of Fame Tableau Visionary. Was @theneilrichards on here and the other place. Currently freelancing at neilrichardsdata.com (dataviz / fluency / storytelling) questionsindataviz.com https://routledge.com/9781032139449

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Neil Richards@questionsindataviz.com · 2mo ago

Starting tomorrow (Wednesday 10th) - our collaboration to help you with all things Tableau and AI, alongside a community of fellow learners on the same journey. Not too late to join for the very first session, at super discount founder member rates 👇 vizdj.thrivecart.com/tic-li/

View during the 2 day in person Data Visualisation & Storytelling course I delivered in Mallorca at the weekend. I can deliver the same great course for you/your team, on a sunny island, in the UK rain or online - passion and knowledge for dataviz is the same the world over! neilrichardsdata.com

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Starting tomorrow (Wednesday 10th) - our collaboration to help you with all things Tableau and AI, alongside a community of fellow learners on the same journey. Not too late to join for the very first session, at super discount founder member rates 👇 vizdj.thrivecart.com/tic-li/

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Neil Richards@questionsindataviz.com · 2mo ago

Announcing my collaboration with @vizdj.bsky.social - The Insights Collective Steve and I are investigating all things Tableau & AI, bringing learnings to our community via years of training experience. Join us as a founder member at heavily discounted rates Much more: vizdj.thrivecart.com/tic-li/

Announcing my collaboration with @vizdj.bsky.social - The Insights Collective Steve and I are investigating all things Tableau & AI, bringing learnings to our community via years of training experience. Join us as a founder member at heavily discounted rates Much more: vizdj.thrivecart.com/tic-li/

The Insights Collective - Join as a Founding Member

Stay ahead of Tableau and AI without spending hundreds of hours doing it alone. $365/year founding rate - 100 spots only.

vizdj.thrivecart.com

Announcing my collaboration with @vizdj.bsky.social - The Insights Collective Steve and I are investigating all things Tableau & AI, bringing learnings to our community via years of training experience. Join us as a founder member at heavily discounted rates Much more: vizdj.thrivecart.com/tic-li/

The Insights Collective - Join as a Founding Member

Stay ahead of Tableau and AI without spending hundreds of hours doing it alone. $365/year founding rate - 100 spots only.

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Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

Spaghetti chart showing Oxford Radcliffe Observatory daily maximum temperatures for every day of the year from 1815 to 2026. 211 years of historical data are shown as very faint grey lines tracing a seasonal cycle from around 5°C in winter to a summer peak of roughly 25–30°C in July and August. A blue smoothed 30-day mean line highlights the average annual temperature cycle. The 2026 line is shown in bold red, running from January through to late May before spiking sharply upward to reach 33.7°C on 26 May, well above the entire historical grey envelope for that time of year. A single dashed red reference line marks the previous May record of 30.6°C set on 29 May 1944. The 2026 reading exceeds this by 3.1°C and, in statistical terms, is the 6th most anomalous maximum temperature in Oxford's 211-year record, ranking as the most anomalous May maximum ever observed and coming within 0.6°C of the all-time June record of 34.3°C set in 1976.

Hi to all followers and bluesky folks - it's been a long six months since I posted. It's hard to condense into 200ish characters, so I'll just say that redundancy and cancer hit one after the other. But we fight on - slowly venturing into the freelance space while prioritising health and recovery!

NEW: Questions in Dataviz: Is it time to embrace Granny Life? Created by @mathgrrl.com - a geometrical mathematically-generated 10x10 grid physical dataviz, to be displayed in a mathematical art exhibition in Paris next year. Still time for all to take part! questionsindataviz.com/2025/11/11/i...

Is it time to embrace Granny Life?

Yes – It’s time for me to embrace the Granny Life. Not a sentence I was expecting to write any time soon. And also nothing to do with the recent realisation that my personal Meldrew Poi…

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When I have to randomly put a bunch of dots on a map, I too copy paste clusters and rotate them around to make it look like they are actually different

Shitty map from the US Department of War website claiming the military has 4800 sites in over 160 countries but the placements are laughably wrong - for example a bunch are in Russia, Venezuela, Iran, and China. Yellow circles highlight where the dots are clearly copy pasted.

A question for my German, Spanish and French friends on here: How to you refer to the term AI? Do people in French and Spanish refer to it as IA? And in German as KI? Or is it a global term known as AI pretty much everywhere? Thanks / Merci / Danke / Gracias!

My latest article for @datavizsociety.bsky.social’s Nightingale magazine is out now. Check out my interview with Angelica Lo Duca, author of “Become a Great Data Storyteller” - we discuss heroes, sidekicks, minions and more, along with the inevitable growth of AI …

Data Visualization Society@datavizsociety.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📊 Characters, heroes, and sidekicks aren't just for fiction writing & cinematography, but data storytelling, as well. Read Neil Richards' (@questionsindataviz.com) interview with Angelica Lo Duca where they discuss her book "Become a Great Data Storyteller." nightingaledvs.com/review-becom...

I've signed up for @mathgrrl.com 's amazing #grannylifecrochet project at www.grannylifecrochet.com. I'm not a granny and I've never crocheted but this looks like a great opportunity to take part in mass participation maths algorithm based art. What's not to like? Squares still available!🇫🇷🧶

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Granny Life

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mathgrrl@mathgrrl.com · last yr.

CALLING ALL CROCHET GEEKS AND GRANNIES Do you want to crochet something that ends up in a mathematical art exhibit in Paris* next summer? Join the project at www.grannylifecrochet.com * We will find out in September if the project makes it into the Paris exhibit