Amber Thomas

Amber Thomas

@amberthomas.bsky.social

Data Viz Engineer at USAFacts. Big fan of using data, visualization, and storytelling to make info simpler and more accessible. Opinions are my own.

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This is very fun! The letters filling the space beneath the line really makes the viz more impactful

Karim Douieb@karimdouieb.bsky.social

I built a fun little app to explore baby name trends over time! 👶📈 Type your name, watch its popularity evolve, and create a unique visual. Give it a try and let me know what you think! 👉 baby-names.jetpack.ai #BabyNames #DataViz #typography

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You probably know me as the person who made charts out of play doh: www.amycesal.com/portfolio#/d... Or as a co-founder of @datavizsociety.bsky.social I want you to know me as a person who can help you build a data viz style guide: www.datavizstyleguide.com

amycesal.comPortfolio — Amy Cesal

With the influx of dataviz people, let's do some re-intros. 📊 — What's your claim to fame? ✨ — How might we know you already? What have you done that we might have seen or read before? What would help us remember how we came across you? Don't be shy: it's helping us reconnect and remember you 💡

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Interested in how the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social 📊 data viz team builds interactive data tools? The @svelte.dev code powering this recent piece is open source and available on Github: github.com/UrbanInstitu...

github.comGitHub - UrbanInstitute/health-insurance-premium-tax-credit: Source code for: https://www.urban.org/data-tools/health-insurance-premium-tax-creditSource code for: https://www.urban.org/data-tools/health-insurance-premium-tax-credit - GitHub - UrbanInstitute/health-insurance-premium-tax-credit: Source code for: https://www.urban.org/data-too...
Mitchell Thorson@mitchellthorson.com

📊 A new data tool from @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows that millions of Americans would lose their health insurance if the enhanced premium tax credits are allowed to expire at the end of 2025. Explore the tool to see who would be most impacted: www.urban.org/data-tools/h...

This 2018 piece about how minuscule pockets are in women’s jeans is definitely my claim to dataviz fame ✨ pudding.cool/2018/08/pock... It was so much fun to build this one with @jadiehm.bsky.social and I love how much people still enjoy it 🥰

pudding.coolWomenIf you wear women

With the influx of dataviz people, let's do some re-intros. 📊 — What's your claim to fame? ✨ — How might we know you already? What have you done that we might have seen or read before? What would help us remember how we came across you? Don't be shy: it's helping us reconnect and remember you 💡

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A list of data/graphics journalists. Since I first started this on the other site, there are SO many more people who do this work.

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"a free, open source, and constantly expanding library of knowledge of anything related to information design and visualization (not just data visualization) that I’ll curate. All videos, writings, or any other resource we put online will be freely accessible to and downloadable by anyone."

Alberto Cairo@albertocairo.com

New in the newsletter / Nuevo en la newsletter: English: The Open Visualization Academy is coming in 2025 theartofinsight.substack.com/p/the-open-v... Español: La Open Visualization Academy llegará en 2025 albertocairo.substack.com/p/la-open-vi... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism

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