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elijahmeeks.bsky.social
Principal Engineer at Confluent. Ex-Noteable, Apple, Netflix, Stanford. I write sometimes and talk too much.
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Enjoying @nadiehbremer.com's CHART (and the sun 😁). It's a great book — Nadieh's work is amazing anyways, and I love how generously she shares her tricks and recipes. www.routledge.com/CHART-Design...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I am shocked. The US strikes Iran with 180 tons of explosives and the protest is so small that in a photo on CNN you can see a guy walking in the background with a shopping bag. In contrast, when Qasem Soleimani was killed there were millions of protestors.

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Distinct color names are important for data visualization when you're presenting so that you don't have someone say "What about the green bar" and you have to say "You mean this green" and they say "No the other green." meodai.github.io/color-name-a...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Ooh - some great #dataviz resources in here

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I asked AI to explain the differences in models in meme form and I told it to explain it to me in peak gen x and it is, I think, the first true piece of AI art ever created.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The older I get the more I think @danz68.bsky.social might have been right about everything.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

OMG #visualized will be back!! Visualized share.google/tOOaw9XSEVa4...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

So wild to me that the most unimaginative logical positivists (Silicon Valley tech companies) created the most pure form of postmodern text (LLMs) that’s hated by self-identified postmodernists (academics) because it problemitizes objective truth (something no one believes in anymore). #hermeneutics

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Thread: 1. Signal was a photo and army magazine published by the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany from 1940 through 1945. These maps and infographics are from the Hungarian edition.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

Sankey diagrams are getting perilously close to being renamed online relationship success diagrams.

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

What is #dataviz animation good for? An updated thread with examples.

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

Reminder that the pope is catholic and west point is part of the military-industrial complex. Of course a military academy for producing military leaders of an imperial military is supposed to indoctrinate what do you think indoctrination is? What do words even mean any more?

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

For #EarthDay I made a subway map version of the San Lorenzo River watershed. The San Lorenzo River is my local river here in Santa Cruz and I've always felt a greater connection to nature and the Earth when I've created abstract representations of its systems.

submitted 66 days ago • 2 comments

I love that we accept charts like the one on the left at face value when the one on the right exist.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like I'm going to get to revisit design principles for animated #dataviz. Any good resources out there that folks rely on for animation in data visualization? emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav... emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Github is developing the #dataviz section of their design system. I particularly like the practical approach taken in the color section where it acknowledges that traditional accessibility issues simply cannot be addressed in viz using non-viz UI approaches. primer.style/product/ui-p...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Okay, I believe the evidence that we can't make a $600 iPhone in the United States but now you're telling me we can't affordably make a $40,000 bag?

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Please if you're an academic thinking about how you might restore academia after this, take the time to see how university's hollowing themselves out (grade inflation, PhD overproduction, administrative bloat, taking advantage of adjuncts, investment banking) made them so vulnerable to this attack.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

It's clear dataviz is at an inflection point. Essays by @shirleywu.studio and @moritzstefaner.bsky.social have been thought provoking in many ways, but haven't discussed dataviz from a business perspective. Let's discuss! Full essay: www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-d...

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

Gain hands-on experience and learn data viz best practices at Outlier 2025. Early bird rates end on April 30. Register here: buff.ly/bUQHpFY

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Why does @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy randomize the color of the layer when you load it? ArcGIS used to do this, too, right? Is it just a sort of hack to prevent the same color being used? But it's unpredictable. And weird. And jarring. Who decided it should happen this way?

submitted 82 days ago • 3 comments

I remember talking to @jasonforrest.bsky.social six years ago about making a magazine and then working with Medium and all the editing and it's so amazing to see how he grew it from nothing to this great resource for the #dataviz community! Thank you, Jason! nightingaledvs.com/my-6-years-a...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

behold the CONNECTED SPLATTERPIE kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair

submitted 88 days ago • 37 comments