Tamara Munzner

I missed that the Ears + Hands series that I'm running at UBC on Thursdays at lunchtime through the fall made it into the Georgia Straight listings! If you're in the Vancouver area, bring your handwork and learn about textiles and technology. Free and open to all. www.straight.com/listings/eve...

The Wikipedia community has built a tool that makes it possible to embed our interactive Our World in Data charts right in any Wikipedia page. I have always admired Wikipedia and all the people contributing to it. And I'm very happy that our work now can get used this way!

This guy is styling his clothes according to well-known fonts and it’s great. www.instagram.com/reel/De5LYuq...

Is #MosaicMonday a thing here? Let’s pretend it is, because this is my favorite mosaic octopus. The mosaicist, however, seems to have given up on the guilloche border halfway through. 😆 🏺 1/ 2nd-3rd c. CE. Villaquejida, Spain. #MuseoArqueológicoNacional, Madrid. 📸 me

50+1 has caught another pollster faking data: fiftyplusone.substack.com/p/fiftypluso...

Participants wanted for UBC research study: are you a #visualization researcher with experience in designing both text and structured-data projects? Sign up at ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... PI: Tamara Munzner. Questions: Ryan Smith, rs0914@cs.ubc.ca

I wasn't aware that the South China Morning Post has made all (?) their infographics available online as high resolution versions. Gorgeous! multimedia.scmp.com/culture/arti... #dataviz

The "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game is bullshit and always has been. These crazy bastards used data science to prove it: pudding.cool/2026/10/kevi...

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

Hey educators, tidyplots.org is great for teaching students data visualization because it is 🕊️ Free and open-source 🚀 Easy, intuitive and fast 💾 Loaded with demo datasets 🏆 Embracing best practices 🌈 Beautiful #rstats #phd #dataviz #education

The rollercoaster of getting a paper's data ↗ available in Zenodo repository ↘ 2GB, too big for Safari ↗ curl works ↗ files organized by figure ↘ it's only the figures ↗ there's also a code repo with a notebook ↘ nb depends on absent data files ↗ nb includes some static data ↘ not enough for plot

Nice reminder and visual representation of the limitations of radar charts, by Flourish 📊 Source: flourish.studio/blog/create-...

2019 video of Heidi the Octopus, captured by Dr. David Scheel, a professor of marine biology at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage & aired on PBS Nature program "Octopus: Making Contact". We think the color changes are the results of Heidi dreaming as she sleeps. Let's talk about it.

Most often, people hire me to draw clean, grayscale maps of real places. But sometimes people hire me to draw fantasy maps. And every once in a while, someone will hire me to draw a fantasy-style map of a real place. They make great presents, in case you're wondering. #maps #fantasymaps

New post with @jensvb.bsky.social on the mystery behind Maple Street's spooky disappearing act, and how it's connected to Vancouver's housing shortage. Warning: there could be some time travel back to the 1970s involved, so bring your tie-dyes & bell bottoms! homefreesociology.com/2026/10/17/c...

We already have flying cars. They're called helicopters. They're really expensive and there are good reasons you have to have a pilot license and work with air traffic control to fly them. Putting jets on a sedan is not going to result in a better vehicle or transportation experience in any way.

Perfect timing, map projection lecture is this coming week, will demo this in my grad class. I love that I can make the projection point wrap around from positive to negative infinity. Just the right companion to the philogb.github.io/page/myriahe... demo that goes with the paper they're reading.

Highlight of my week. My student baked #Shiny hex sticker shortbread for our interactive dashboard class 😭

Full time job opportunity for a scientific illustrator to work with us at the U-Michigan museum of zoology and herbarium! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

trying to explain ”Werner Herzog” to the 12yos and thought of the penguin clip, but there probably is something more effective youtu.be/mnTU_hJoByA?...

A brave, wrenching, and ultimately hopeful essay on what it means to rebuild and reconnect with academia, after the body and mind throw a halt: "research and science are what we do, not who we are" www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-e...

A really good point made with a great mix of charts including some beautiful significant historical examples.

I interviewed the creator behind that mashup about how that happened! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io/how-one-guy-...

#dataviz #history #EDA ANNOUNCE: JDSSV is planning a Special Issue on Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualisation: 50 Years of John Tukey’s Legacy. The call for papers is now online. jdssv.org/index.php/jd...

Publish with code to anywhere and everywhere with #quartopub after attending this #WOMBAT2026 tutorial. The early bird gets the discounted price before 18 October! wombat2026.numbat.space/program/tuto... #RStats #Python

get in loser we're going right round baby right round

Hungry for info about how social influence impacts people's climate-related views & actions? I made this graphic rooted in a paper on the topic by @samhampton.bsky.social @brionylatter.bsky.social & @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social Read more here: www.jenchristiansen.com/climate/soci... 🧪 #scicomm #climate

This week's Data Vis Dispatch covers Brazil’s age distribution 👥, Thailand's Girls' Love industry 📺🇹🇭, Trump's false election claims 🗳️, America's most popular fruit 🇺🇸, and the 2026 Nobel Prize winners🏆. Explore these topics and much more in the newly posted blog👇 www.datawrapper.de/blog/data-vi...

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MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network Tenured faculty are using rhinestones and googly eyes to demonstrate against 500-plus new cameras and plans to potentially implement AI capabilities....

Some of yall

One of my longest-running and most meaningful projects now has a home. After years of collecting, curating and building color projects, I made a website to explore them all the names. → meodai.github.io/color-names/

Haven't had time to check out cool new technology recently, but decided to try parquet and DuckDB-WASM for cheap interactive Canada-wide dot-density maps. This is running in the browser backed by remote hosted parquet. Still lots of room for improvement, but this already works quite well.

Reflections on visiting the Eames Archives in the east bay: tonyhschu.ca/blog/breakin...

This took me a second.. 😅

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

The full programme for Visualising Climate 2026 is now live! See 👉 visualisingclimate.com/programme/ 3 days · 3 keynotes · 34 talks · 9 paper presentations · 6 workshops · 1 round table · 2 visits to ECMWF · 1 conference dinner in a memorable Bologna venue · 75+ speakers visualisingclimate.com

I'm late to the party but wow this is a great talk on how to give a talk! I especially recommend to everybody heading to #ieeevis next month

Still upset about that highly cited paper in Psych Science you consider deeply flawed? Now is your time to shine ✨

Good Saturday morning to everyone except StatCan, who decided to break reproducible workflows by disabling programmatic data download for some of their data and put it behind a Cloudflare "human" check. Leaving me to decide whether to remove cancensus package functionality or re-host the data.

Every river in North America, every day for two years. The combined flow to the sea sinks as low as 53,000 m³/s in winter and swells past 290,000 by late June, more than quadrupling each spring. Data: GloFAS, @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social #rivers #dataviz #hydrology

It's here, it's here! DATA BY DESIGN is here in my hands, and it is beautiful!!! So much gratitude to @mitpress.bsky.social @chronictanvi.bsky.social and the (not on bluesky) rest of the team for making this book a reality!

This is a reminder that I have several table viewers and dashboards available, free of charge and with no registration or use authorization necessary. philipsmith.ca/dashboards/

In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile. It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵

Wow, yeah, what a fantastic site for both exploration and teaching, just in time for this term's lecture on Maps in a few weeks! Maybe you think you're already a map geek (a la xkcd.com/977/) - but welcome to the next level down the rabbit hole...

Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo!

Mine favorite is; “Doc note I dissent: a fast never prevents a fatness. I diet on cod.” Close second: “Sit on a potato pan, Otis!”

Oh, if we're going there: a man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal—Panama!