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Designer, journalist, and professor. Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). Newsletter: https://theartofinsight.substack.com/ Website: www.albertocairo.com

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Little Marco at his littlest.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Besides the excellent points in this post and thread, I'd add that "bias" isn't a bad thing. Value-less journalism is a convenient delusion. Moreover, I may "biased" about certain topics because I have deep, first-hand experience with them. But that makes me MORE qualified to cover them, not less.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Dear 📊 #dataViz friends, you need to read this book. Get it.

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

Thanks so much for the nice words. It truly means a lot 📊

submitted 8 minutes ago • 0 comments

Patriotic duty. Thread below with links and suggestions

submitted 17 minutes ago • 0 comments

This:

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Should we be concerned that Microsoft launching its Copilot invasion of Office with an exploding 3D pie charts?

submitted 17 hours ago • 5 comments

DOGE technically doesn’t cancel contracts and fire people in the same way a mafia don technically doesn’t murder people and extort businesses

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

People are having predictable reactions to this piece, which I get, but I actually do think we need to have a collective discussion about epistemic ethics, as it were. She didn't know. Should she have known? Who is responsible for her not knowing? Did she fail or was she failed, or both?

submitted 1 day ago • 210 comments

The other is to always remember it’s structurally impossible for your book to be as important to your publisher as it is to you

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I've kept my WaPo subscription because I think their graphics team does some exceptional work, but this directive is a clear directive to discontinue that subscription. A lot of things feel beyond our influence, but as consumers deciding where to spend money, collectively, makes a difference.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It's the way other people's virtues seem to so deeply offend him that's disturbing.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

Many great replies in this thread 📊 #dataViz

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A million times this

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People who have won battles to make the world better didn't all have tailwinds. It's a struggle by definition. But it's right so it's worth it and even necessary. Anyway, the @datavizsociety.bsky.social is hiring a DE&I Director. 📊 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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I have so many questions, Hadley 😀

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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While I'm still employed for now by the USGS, it seems like the writing on the wall is clear -- I'm officially looking for a new position. I'm a data scientist with 5+ years of experience with #rstats and spatial data, plus experience with Python/Rust/JS, looking for Boston or remote positions.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

A reminder that I moved my newsletter to a new platform. Sign up below. New (long!) post with updates on the Open Visualization Academy coming soon 📊 #dataViz

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AI for #dataviz is like a well-meaning child. It can produce basic charts, but you have to lead it by the nose to get something you've happy with

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Dear 📊 ##dataViz crowd, help needed. What am I missing?

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

I'm still looking for uses of generative AI in visualization and information design; the results so far have been... underwhelming, to say the least. This is a chart from an AI-for-visualization course in a major online education platform. Sigh.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Horizon chart alert

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Good graphics here

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Just updated the dataviz 📊 starter pack for the first time since November. It's full and optimized for posting activity, so I need to replace slow posters to add frequent posters. I share in this thread 👇 who I add/replace so that you can add them to your own following list.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

jesus christ. But also I am singularly unsurprised by this. Try teaching humanities/ethics in STEM dominant environments, and you will confront these attitudes repeatedly from CS/tech/engineering students. Their education is sadly lacking, and the industry makes it worse.

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

This is a fantastic #dataViz thread. I was going to suggest a couple but they were already there

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE is a criminal enterprise to destroy the government to empower and enrich oligarchs. Any news org that uses the term "cost cutting" to describe DOGE is complicit and should be shunned.

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 8 days ago • 206 comments