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Kristoffer Magnusson

@rpsychologist.com

Understanding Maximum Likelihood Estimation, now in 3D!:

rpsychologist.com/likelihood

#dataviz #stats #rstats

October 25, 2026 at 12:44 PM

Alex Usher

@alexusherhesa.bsky.social

Excellent dataviz

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 1d

Kevin Bacon is not the center of Hollywood. “In fact, he never has been, and almost certainly never will be.”

The Real Kevin Bacon

Demystifying the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: the past, present, and future centers of Hollywood

pudding.cool

October 26, 2026 at 11:09 PM

David H. Montgomery

@dhmontgomery.com

Here's the actual data. More here: www.artio.so/dataviz/page...

A table of rent and renter income by metro area.

October 26, 2026 at 2:02 PM

Attila Bátorfy

@attilabatorfy.bsky.social

Information Design Conference in Hilversum, the Netherlands is coming this Friday! Here are some of my favourite historical Dutch dataviz and cartograms. attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/idc26-spec...

October 26, 2026 at 4:19 PM

Mike Honey

@mikehoney.bsky.social

Interactive dataviz, code, acknowledgements and more info here:
github.com/Mike-Honey/c...
🧵ends

GitHub - Mike-Honey/covid-19-au-vaccinations: DataViz on Australian COVID-19 Vaccinations and related statistics

DataViz on Australian COVID-19 Vaccinations and related statistics - Mike-Honey/covid-19-au-vaccinations

github.com

October 25, 2026 at 3:57 AM

David H. Montgomery

@dhmontgomery.com

Median rent as a share of median income of renter households in major U.S. metros, 2010 vs. 2024.

Minneapolis is lowest on the list, at 29%, down from 30.4% in 2010.

www.artio.so/dataviz/page...

A chart with the title, "Rent takes 38.6% of the typical Miami renter's income, the most of any big US metro"

October 26, 2026 at 1:52 PM

Voilà: Francis Gagnon

@chezvoila.com

I'd really like to see more posts from women in the Data Viz feed that Jacque has created and maintains. You have sign up below and then use the #dataviz and 📊 tag to appear in it.

I jus did a quick survey of the last 100 posts that appear there and posts by women only represent 20% of them.

Who's using the #dataviz / chart tag in the dataviz feed?
Pie chart showing men 73%, women 20%, unknown 7%.

October 27, 2026 at 12:23 PM

Robert Simmon

@rsimmon.bsky.social

It’s interesting that early #dataviz, like early arcade & video games, had not yet settled on standardized encoding (control) schemes.

This is my favorite graphic in the post.

Vintage map of planetary orbits from the early 19th century. It looks like lots of looping squiggles.

October 26, 2026 at 4:39 PM

Niall Roe

@niallroe.bsky.social

www.benfry.com/traces/

This is cool. Watch the Origin of Species develop. (Evolve?)

#philsci #hps @benfry.com #dataviz

the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry

www.benfry.com

October 27, 2026 at 2:40 PM

Jen Christiansen

@jenchristiansen.com

Damn, it’s nice to see a climate dataviz that shows humans blasting past projections in a *positive* way. Last week I (belatedly) learned about @aukehoekstra.bsky.social's 2017 Twitter-famous solar capacity chart. Here's my animated homage. Read more here: www.jenchristiansen.com/climate/exce... 📊

October 28, 2026 at 1:19 PM

Alberto Cairo

@albertocairo.com

The thread deriving from @mjskay.com's response to my post reminds me of good, old #dataViz Twitter. I miss this type of conversation!

Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 4d

I think this depends on dialect and audience

To me there's a definition of misleadingness (or maybe correctness) where if there are perceptual operations on a chart your audience will tend to perform and those operations do not correspond to valid data operations, arguably the chart is incorrect

October 24, 2026 at 9:17 PM

Ivi Choc

@ivichoc.bsky.social

#ZackLabe #DataViz
#Arctic #ArcticAdventure #nature #PolarBear

😍 Majestic!

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d

My first hour on the tundra has some curious visitors… 🥶

October 27, 2026 at 9:49 PM

Nicola Rennie

@nrennie.bsky.social

If you're starting to think about the #30DayMapChallenge, here are some resources you might find helpful 👇

nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ma...

Links to free books, colour palettes, data, and inspiration 📊

#RStats #DataViz

Mapping resources

A collection of useful, freely-available geospatial, mapping, and cartographic resources and links.

nrennie.rbind.io

October 27, 2026 at 10:06 AM

Jan Broder Engler

@jbengler.de

Here are some #tidyplots use cases for bioinformatics 🔥

Complete with data and code 🚀

https://tidyplots.org/use-cases/#bioinformatics

#rstats #dataviz #phd

October 25, 2026 at 6:01 PM

Kang Wu

@wukang.bsky.social

Legend position using #tidyplots

See the code at:
tidyplots-book.pages.dev/plots-and-sk...

#stats #dataviz #phd

October 27, 2026 at 4:23 AM

Jacque Schrag

@jacqueschrag.com

Some good #dataviz discussion on the pros/cons on the usage of choropleth maps in this thread, and who has responsibility for clarity and understanding.

Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 5d

As much as I like lovely exercises like this, we need to stop saying that the choropleth map is "misleading". It can be misleading *if you don't know how to read it for the purpose it was created for*—to show who won were, nothing else. The problem isn't the map, but its improper interpretation.

Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · 5d

🇺🇸🗳️ With the 2026 midterms two weeks away, I felt this election deserved a better map. 🧵

October 26, 2026 at 2:21 PM

Data Science Learning Community

@dslc.io

It's #TidyTuesday y'all! Show us what you made on our Slack at https://dslc.io!
#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #RustLang #DataViz #DataScience #DataAnalytics #data #tidyverse #DataBS

Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 2d

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 43 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring IKEA Sofas and Their Swedish Places!

📂 https://tidytues.day/2026/2026-10-27
📰 https://karaman.is/ikea-place-names

#RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

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Map of Sweden with a dot for each place that shares its name with an IKEA sofa or armchair in the Swedish range. Filled dots are sofas, hollow dots armchairs, and ringed dots names used for both. The dots are densest in the south, especially in Skåne, Småland and around Stockholm, and thin out towards the north, where only a handful sit in the interior of Norrland. A red cross marks Älmhult in Småland, where IKEA started. One place, Herråkra in Småland, is highlighted with its name in a blue label.

October 27, 2026 at 6:09 PM

Aman Bhargava

@aman.bh

The monsoon is over, and almost 40% of the 74 major Indian dams are at their lowest late-October level in eight years. The typical dam is usually 0.4 m below full at this time of year, but this year it's 3.5 m. @diagramchasing #dataviz

October 27, 2026 at 12:38 PM

Michael Friendly

@datavisfriendly.bsky.social

#dataviz
I got a lovely gift in the mail today, @laurenfkennedy.bsky.social Data by Design
The historical and modern content is amazing, but I'm also drooling over the wonderful look and page design 💯