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How to: reproduce this lovely Bivariate Map with Observable Plot (original by Muhammad Mohsin Raza) observablehq.observablehq.cloud/pangea/plot/...

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

fun little experiment to serve as a backdrop for my personal site: turn all the characters of a font into meshes (w/ opentype and earcut), then reassemble the triangles into compound objects that we can subject to a physics system (w/ rapier): paulchaikin.net

Mapped: Salary Needed to Buy a Home in 50 U.S. Cities (2026) 🏠 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/salary-needed-to-buy-a-home-50-us-cities-q2-2026/

From @fil.rezo.net: “Prediction markets didn’t see the far right’s Oct. 25 defeats coming.” observablehq.com/@fil/polymar...

New post! Debunking the Google Gemini/Cloud commercial on the full moon and baseball stats. marcoshuerta.com/posts/full-m...

What do you learn from coding an explanation by hand vs. with Claude? @rreusser.bsky.social has done a lot both ways; on the latest episode of our podcast, we compare one of each. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7epn... Subscribe: observablehq.com/podcast

This new Exxon ad with Woody Harrelson goes so hard 😳😂❤️‍🔥

This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years. No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.

if you have a 55/45 split in polls, the probability of winning is something like 90/10, depending on the uncertainty observablehq.com/@fil/share-t...

Every river in Europe, every day for two years. The combined flow to the sea sinks as low as 43,000 m³/s in winter and swells past 125,000 by early June, nearly tripling as the snow melts. Data: GloFAS, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #rivers #dataviz #hydrology

Aletsch Glacier 2021 | 2026 Over these 5 years, it has lost 25 m in thickness at Konkordiaplatz (2900 m asl) 🧊🔥 And likely more than 50 m over the section shown here (1800-2200 m asl) 😱 All this melting is entirely caused by human activity! 🏭

There’s a good book on this topic of “collective forecasting” www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

in Brazil, wiki seems to show the polls had Lula narrowly ahead pretty much the whole way: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion...

I was actually the first to vote in this! I saw The Sun post the article and went straight in. 😂 👇

🚨🚨New version of our student debt cancellation paper is out.🚨🚨 Using a nationally representative credit panel, we follow borrowers whose federal loans were canceled in 2021–2024 for up to four years. Cancellation raised homeownership, credit scores, and credit access. 1/20

A friend recently assured me that polymarket could beat any polls, because more people meant more information was integrated in the "prices". I guess that's their bet, but yesterday… it didn't work observablehq.com/@fil/polymar...

Today we (@propublica.org) published this map of every location with an active 287(g) agreement with ICE. (with the help of @tituslegaldesign.com's initial data analysis). Read the story: "The Small-Town Cop Who Helped ICE Deport His Ingram, Texas, Neighbors" www.propublica.org/article/depo...

#MapMonday On this day in 1918, Cecil Chubb gifted the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge to the British nation. He paid £6,600 at the time during the auction, which he had originally attended to purchase some dining chairs! Read more about the site here: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wiltsh...

Dogs of New York, shapes and sizes edition.

Putins Valdai residence now has 50 airdefense positions. Half of that of Moscow. Dudes terrified. www.svoboda.org/a/vokrug-rez...

On Thursday @godin.bsky.social will be in the Bellingcat Discord server to discuss the techniques and insights emerging from his ongoing satellite imagery analysis of changes to Gaza’s landscape over the past three years of intensified conflict. Join our live Q&A: discord.gg/bellingcat?e...

For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of German election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography

Découvrez le plus court chemin pour visiter toutes les crêperies bretonnes ! Quelle distance devez-vous parcourir pour relier toutes le crêperies ? 🟡 jaune pour les crêperies où l'on dit "crêpe" 🟠 orange pour les crêperies où l'on dit "galette" #bretagne #breizh #crepe #galette #cartographie #map

Hello, new followers. I track ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. This is what the ICE Air operation looked like yesterday, Oct. 23, 2026. --88 flights --14 removal stops --3 third-country removal stops --Nearly all adult passengers shackled at the ankles, wrists & waist.

The toxicity that @ericlipton.nytimes.com and his colleagues have uncovered is everywhere but if you live in Texas, Louisiana, or Alabama pay special attention

ods.fyi is the thing. What if open data was just parquet files in OCI images, addressed by the hash of the files?

Casey Miller & Scott Reinhard: From Open Source to Newsroom: Integrating a New Mapping System at Reuters scottreinhardmaps.com/blogs/custom... #NACIS2026

Couvre-feux à Paris, Lyon, Lille, Nice, Bordeaux, Marseille : la carte des villes concernées ce soir. #CouvreFeu #France #Violences presse83.fr/2026/10/21/c...

Great post; changes how I look at penguins, their measurement, and Simpson’s paradox itself. @fil.rezo.net reproduced it in a notebook with JavaScript and Plot. observablehq.com/@fil/penguin...

#dataviz #stats #rstats New blog post: Thinking about Penguin Variables Bill length & depth show Simpson's paradox. Re-expressed as size (L×D) and shape (L/D), it vanishes: same data, rotated 45°, a simpler story. friendly.github.io/blog/posts/2...

Mother nature is a fan of the Frostfire color ramp :-) www.joshuastevens.net/phosphor/#t=...

Anyone else feeling like this (image below), when it comes to being cut off from access to federal data that supports informed conversations about the ripple effects of climate change? Read more here: www.jenchristiansen.com/climate/data... #scicomm #climate #infodesign #sciart 📊 🧪

"The “statistial significance” of this model is overwhelming, i.e. we can resoundingly reject the hypothesis that global average SST has warmed at the same rate for the last several decades. It’s a lot faster now (about 0.3°C/dec) than it was before 2012 (less than 0.1°C/dec)."

Diplomacy’s shifting lines Between 2017 & 2026, foreign governments opened 473 diplomatic missions, while 243 closed elsewhere. Where those missions opened & closed offers a snapshot of which countries are expanding diplomatic presence and which are pulling back. #Diplomacy #DataVisualisation

A series of maps on the Russian meat trade in 1913. Read the article here attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/the-russia...

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The latest update to region Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures is not only a new record daily High, but also a new record anomaly, now 3.46 C above the 1991 to 2020 Baseline.

New satellite imagery reveals the full extent of tree felling on a Washington DC golf course long eyed for development by President Trump. 430 trees were reportedly cut with little notice over the weekend, undermining attempts to protect the site. www.bellingcat.com/news/us-cana...

Le mouvement lycéen et étudiant signe le crépuscule du macronisme: les jeunes veulent se former et accéder aux études, et un pouvoir élitiste leur répond en réduisant de 20% le budget par étudiant entre 2017 et 2026 et en gérant la pénurie avec un algorithme opaque (Parcoursup)

For this week, I explore why avoiding simple charts builds a stronger visual mindset, alongside my featured tools of the week (RustGIS, FOFA, and SciGraphs). Check out the link below for the full post! pablorobles.substack.com/p/my-problem-with-bar-charts

Now that's some use lovely use of machine learning: anthophiles.mtchl.net ♥️🐝🌼

What an excellent visualization tool. I would have loved to have had this available when I used to teach cartography. hypertidy.github.io/playproj/

Taken: 9 September 2026 (8:18pm – 10:13pm) "I estimate there are approximately 14,000 satellite trail appearances across the 578 photographs. These aren't necessarily 14,000 different satellites, as the same satellite can appear in multiple exposures." "This is NOT AI-generated." #Kikorangi #nzpol

NEW: Over and over, judges have rejected the Trump administration’s arguments for turning over state voter rolls. “Clearly, this demand is devoid of any factual basis,” one judge wrote.

📣 Protests in India have grown sharply, and so has 👮 police intervention. We mapped demonstrations across the country, examined the rules for crowd control, and looked at the force now under scrutiny. www.reuters.com/graphics/IND...

Americans bought an estimated 1.23 million guns in September 2026, according to an analysis of FBI data. thetr.ac/7FSYs

Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.