Dominik Moritz

Looks like OpenAI is using @vega-vis.bsky.social for the charts on openai.com/index/introd.... The hover interaction for legends is pretty neat.

So cool how our prototype at @dig.cmu.edu inspired a standard library component and now something every observable notebook comes with.

Timeful has been the best tool for coordinating meeting times for me and it's OSS and now free: timeful.app/blog/timeful...

i love pittsburgh graffiti

Our research group at Apple is recruiting PhD interns working in human-centered AI, including topics such as #interpretability, #alignment, and #visualization. Past interns have published award-winning papers, prototyped new user experiences, and deployed interactive tools that impact billions. 📊

Our research group at Apple is recruiting PhD interns working in human-centered AI, including #interpretability, #alignment, and #visualization. 🍎🤖 Please include the phrase “#human-ai-vis” in your resume or cover letter, and apply at: jobs.apple.com/en-us/detail...

Even bigger announcement: Skeleton has won Best Paper (top 1%) at IEEE VIS this year!! 🎉 VIS is my home community and I am deeply indebted to many of the people in it. I take a little time to pontificate on what "best paper" means to me (or rather, what I think it should really be about):

Love this so much niklasroy.com/gtc/. An art project to build a working clock out of trash in the region famous for precision clocks.

Preview on Mac is seriously powerful and I've used many of the features but this video showed me a few new tricks. youtu.be/FMiTNASBHiE

This is so cool. I love how it re-scales the colors as you move around the map.

Happy September equinox 2026! Enjoy your week! 🌞 Understanding seasons - graphic shows the incoming solar radiation around the two equinoxes (sun passes over the equator)... Download this visualization at zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

Unicode 18 adds the pickle emoji www.unicode.org/emoji/charts.... Maybe OS support will come just in time for @chi.acm.org in Pittsburgh.

Hiya! Finally motivated to join thanks to @ieeevis.org nudge when registering for IEEE VIS in Boston. Thanks for curating the visualization starter pack to onboard me into something interesting right away.

Quick reminder, if you're working on a SaaS product that requires a login, please check if you've defined the well-known URL to change passwords. Password managers will check `/.well-known/change-password` to offer a quick way to change passwords. https://www.w3.org/TR/ch...

Oh cool. Looks like dbt charts is using @vega-vis.bsky.social for some chart types dbtcharts.com/blog/charts-...

Really appreciate that the iPhone Duo has an aspect ratio of 1:1.4 (or 1:sqrt(2)). Always appreciate DIN 476/ISO 216 which is just the perfect aspect ratio system for documents.

it is sooooo cool that we have an actual explainable algorithm here on bsky

For more than a year, we’ve been quietly building an all-new Observable. Today, that new Observable is live on observablehq.com. Read Mike @ocks.org’s announcement: observablehq.com/@observableh...

It’s time for a tale: Woo-oo! 🦆 🦆 🦆 🎵 🎶 The story of DuckDB is about more than just a database, but also the community around it. From our humble beginnings in 2018 🐣 to the preview announcement of DuckDB v2.0 and beyond 🦆⚡ – here’s the complete Duck tale from start to finish:

Shadyside. 5701 Fifth Ave - Third Presbyterian Church. Caller said that lightning struck the top of the spire causing bricks and concrete to fly everywhere. They are also concerned there might be a fire starting as there is a lot of smoke.

Once upon a time, industry was powered by rivers. Once upon a time, industry was powered by coal. Things change. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Big announcement: The final project of my thesis work, Skeleton: Visual Authoring of Non-visual Data Experiences, has now been accepted for publication at IEEE VIS! 🎉 🎉 🎉

This idiot has probably never been to the BOREAL FOREST a day in his life. It is 5.5 times the size of Texas. You cannot "groom" it. It's burning because of climate change. The utter bullshit from these climate deniers. Canadians are sick of this bullying and they are not going to take it.

When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.

I am a climate scientist and, same.

It’s noon and the sky is yellow in Pittsburgh. Wildfires are here.

The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses. As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Alongside the new Mosaic 0.29, we just released an (experimental) Python API for vgplot. idl.uw.edu/mosaic/vgplo...

Next 🤯 talk @localfirstconf.com by @jheer.org is about high-performance / high-volume data viz with mosaic github.com/uwdata/mosaic @duckdb.org mentioned 🦆 TIL that @jheer.org is a co-creator of D3

i take it back, abstractions are dead gist.github.com/willcrichton...

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Oha, das klingt aber nicht gut. Hoffentlich wird das schnell wieder ganz.

a little over a year ago elon was dancing around having successfully cut off USAID, which caused ~600,000 people to die including ~400,000 children). now he is our first trillionaire. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s....

If every billionaire is a policy failure, a trillionaire is 1000 policy failures in a trenchcoat.

Had the weirdest subversion of expectations today. I’m biking 🚲 in the middle of a narrow road when the car behind me honks. I stop and am prepared to be told off by a jagoff driver… but it was a lovely old Pittsburgh lady who wanted to know what shoes and helmet to get for her friend’s son.

Played this game a bunch tonight at Like Like and had a blast including with the bumping into people.