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I enjoy the use of sliders / interactivity here to demonstrate data viz literacy concepts.

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Recently on the team blog: Elections developer Shajia Abidi wrote about some experiments with AP testing and results data, Github Actions and Slack notifiers. blog.apps.npr.org/2025/01/29/e...

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Update (3pm ET on February 5th): the Census FTP site, including the ACS flat files and TIGER/Line shapefiles, is back up! This means that your #rstats / #Python Census geodata packages are now working as normal. Get your data now!

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Everything is a 403 right now, e.g. www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/TI...

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In love with this Reuters piece about cozy games that is itself a cozy game. www.reuters.com/graphics/VID...

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Worth a listen: NPR's producer in Gaza, Anas Baba, reflects on reporting and living through the war. (from late December) www.npr.org/2024/12/29/n...

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Since Feb. 2021, @npr.org has followed all the known January 6 defendants as they've gone through the legal process. Here's the database: www.npr.org/2021/02/09/9...

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Love this deep dive into "Goodnight Moon" 🐰🌙 by two of my favorite modern children's book authors, Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen:

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New collab w/ @nprmusic.bsky.social: The 124 best songs of 2024, in a filterable grid format. www.npr.org/2024/12/04/g...

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Between sales and holiday greetings, I'm reminded this is a great time of year to prune all the email lists that I'm on.

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New on the team blog: Remember that wonderful project about USDA plant hardiness zones from earlier this year? @danielpwwood.bsky.social, with an assist from Brent Jones, wrote up how the map stack worked: blog.apps.npr.org/2024/11/26/s...

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Useful new-to-me Google Docs feature: Right click on a selection of text and copy the snippet in Markdown format — links and everything. There's also a "Paste from Markdown" option to go the other direction. support.google.com/docs/answer/...

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📚 Happy books day! NPR's Books We Love (formerly the Book Concierge) is back with reading recommendations for 2024. apps.npr.org/best-books/#...

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Always here for textile-based datavis. In this case: a bathymetry blanket.

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@capitalweather.bsky.social on incremental updates to official hurricane maps, and the work left to do: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024...

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With the recent surge in users, I've once again updated the NPR / PBS / public media starter pack. Now with 50% more posting supported by viewers like you! If I'm missing someone who's active on Bluesky please do let me know. I'm more than happy to add folks as they arrive.

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What we did re: CT — Switched to township-level data/maps for New England states. Matching identifiers + related data was a pain. But it's lovely, thanks to Juweek Adolphe + Shajia Abidi, and hopefully more relevant for folks who live there. apps.npr.org/2024-electio... apps.npr.org/2024-electio...

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Am I on some kind of list? (Hopefully a good kind. 😰) I've gotten a surprising number of new followers here lately. Hi, all.

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It's election night in the United States. Follow along with special coverage and live results on NPR dot org. apps.npr.org/2024-electio...

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New visual narrative around the shrinking Aral Sea — a collaboration between NPR's International, Visuals and Graphics teams: apps.npr.org/aral-sea-shr...

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I'm having to say "we'll need to figure what to do about Connecticut" an awful lot these days re: election results and historical data. 🫠 Context: www.bls.gov/cew/classifi... (My headaches aren't specific to this BLS survey, but it has a pretty succinct summary of what happened.)

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New from NPR: How to register to vote in all the U.S. states, territories and DC apps.npr.org/voter-regist... "National Voter Registration Day" is a bit of an arbitrary holiday, but it's as good a peg as any to roll out this genuinely useful resource for the fall. Some deadlines are already near!

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JOB: NPR's arts and culture hub has a new fellowship to work on books coverage (including Books We Love). The program is named in memory of beloved books editor Petra Mayer. The job: job-boards.greenhouse.io/nationalpubl... More about Petra: www.npr.org/2021/11/16/1...

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This NYT feature about NYC's best sandwiches is both simply-yet-beautifully designed and making me lament that lunch is still a few hours away. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Had our first team hackday in way too long. Chipped away at some tech debt, explored a couple new workflows and pushed a new template. Also a little teambuilding-through-minor-adversity devising a shared live hackday playlist. 🤣

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New on the team blog: Connie Hanzhang Jin writes about their process for making news comics. blog.apps.npr.org/2024/05/29/m...

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My team, working with the Climate Desk, made something that's weird and joyful and useful. Repo link and blog post(s) to come. In the meantime, enjoy:

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A small, useful, newish-to-me HTML element: The "details" box to show/hide supplemental information. No JS required. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

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New story: The war has pushed roughly half of Gaza's prewar population of 2.3 million people south into Rafah, and Israel has announced plans for a broader military invasion. We tried to provide context for the size/population/density of this area, and update on the dire humanitarian situation.

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Seriously impressed by this @datawrapper.bsky.social virtual conference lineup. www.datawrapper.de/unwrapped

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It's Super Tuesday! NPR has live results, updates and radio coverage tonight: www.npr.org/live-updates...

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Nice work. Also: The eyeball map is freaking me out. 👀 🙃

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Scientific American is hiring a full-time summer/fall news graphics intern! Application deadline is March 15. Comfort with Adobe Illustrator is a must. Applicants will be expected to work in the NYC office at least two days a week. 📊 🐡 careers.springernature.com/job/New-York...

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Nicely done from Texas Tribune

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Sorry to see this. I didn't work directly with her, but she came across as a good-humored, reassuring presence at the helm of NPR during an otherwise turbulent time.

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New on the team blog: How we used gigabytes of shipping data to show risks to endangered whales blog.apps.npr.org/2024/02/12/r...

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Enjoying the little touches in WaPo's reggaeton explainer — the hand lettering, the drumbeat, the flows of influences. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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This will be VERY useful. And from an initial look at things, it seems nicely implemented.

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The pandemic made me more of a homebody, and I've been paying attention to the birds that stop by the feeder. (Also: I am a person who has a bird feeder now.) Interesting to see how bird populations have shifted in my area and nationally. Nice work from @harrystevens.bsky.social

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✅ Checked off "create a checklist" from my todo list this morning. Learned a bit about Github issue templates: docs.github.com/en/communiti...

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It's Iowa caucus day. Live coverage from NPR and IPR (radio special starts at 8 ET): www.npr.org/live-updates... GOP caucus results: apps.npr.org/primary-elec... (Iowa Dems are caucusing but will vote separately for president; results out in March.) Calendar: apps.npr.org/primary-elec...

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Some fun, low-fi "physical data" viz ideas from an ongoing series at the Urban Institute:

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