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Information design and data visualisation. Cares about the climate crisis, post-digital media and technological justice. I like code and smoothies. https://links.jonasparnow.com
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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

submitted 23 hours ago • 18 comments

I am very excited to announce Unpic 1.0 🎉 As easy as an <img> tag but generates all the right attributes and styles for a responsive image. No downloading and no build-time resize • Components for ten frontend frameworks • Support for 26 image providers, now with type-safe transforms for every one

submitted 39 days ago • 9 comments

this is so good. this is so so so good. i'm running around my office screaming the lev manovich quote about how software is ideology

submitted 44 days ago • 48 comments

Lovely example of how weird real-world data is. I put all 55 million points in Overture maps into a Nomic Atlas map. Lots of points spuriously appearing in the ocean. But the 1° square around 'null island' (0° lat, 0° long) is suspiciously clear -- someone has cleared out bad data just there.

submitted 53 days ago • 9 comments

For the 4th year in a row, my all-sky camera has been taking an image of the sky above the Netherlands every 15 seconds. Combining these images reveal the length of the night changing throughout the year, the passage of clouds and the motion of the Moon and the Sun through the sky. #astrophotography

submitted 55 days ago • 23 comments

Anne Telnaes, Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post, has resigned. The paper censored a cartoon that criticized billionaires. Democracy dies in broad daylight, too. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 55 days ago • 19 comments

Do you want the GOOD news or the BAD news? 2024 in charts, by Just Have a Think #climatechange #climate www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG-x...

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Wenn ihr mit einer hoffnungsfrohen Karte aus dem Jahr gehen wollt: 2.500 neue Windräder haben 2024 eine Baugenehmigung bekommen, laut unserer Zählung @zeit.de. Die meisten davon gehen in den nächsten Jahren ans Netz und liefern grünen Strom. Die Energiewende geht voran! zeit.de/energiemonitor

submitted 58 days ago • 20 comments

2024 geht zuende - das heißeste Jahr weltweit & in Deutschland. Die Folge: krasse, teure Wetterextreme. Schaut den Jahresrückblick. Wir dürfen die #Klimakrise nicht weiter als Nebensache behandeln! Dafür würden wir & unsere Kinder & Enkel bitter bezahlen. youtu.be/XEH3NZkTdNI?...

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

Fascinating exploration of entropy as a measure of ignorance. Researchers are attempting to capitalize on the apparent subjectivity of that ignorance. By @zacksavitsky.bsky.social with terrific interactive graphics by Jonas Parnow and @markabelan.bsky.social: www.quantamagazine.org/what-is-entr...

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

this year's @bandcamp.com wrapped! (this is not an official thing but i hacked together something to make it work and wrote it on val.town) macwright.com/2024/12/06/b...

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

New blog post out (first one in over a year 🥵): I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility principles, and explained where things went wrong, including lots of demos. fossheim.io/writing/post...

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

🎅🎄🎁 ADVENT OF SVELTE 🎅🎄🎁 We're going to ship one thing a day every day from now until Christmas. Wish us luck! svelte.dev/blog/advent-... First up...

submitted 89 days ago • 20 comments

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet. Photos: 1. Infrared 2. Visible (obviously) 3. Ultraviolet, and 4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end. 🧪 #photography

submitted 99 days ago • 72 comments

HOW TO GET STARTED ON DATAVIZ BLUESKY 📊 IN 9 STEPS If you're arriving here, you may wonder where is the dataviz community and how to partake in it. Here's a thread on how I suggest going about it. 🧵👇

submitted 396 days ago • 3 comments

Unter vielen guten Plakaten heute war das eines der bedten (habe natürlich vorher gefragt, ob ich es fotografieren und posten darf).

submitted 404 days ago • 15 comments

Absolutely love this chart - all sorts of stuff you can see going on, much clearer than a Sankey diagram and in particular easier to make comparisons between different effects

submitted 411 days ago • 2 comments

It’s freezing cold. Global warming is solved!

submitted 410 days ago • 3 comments