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vluisa.bsky.social
Designer + Developer | interested in data viz, creative coding, fiber arts, data art | at RC rn, MICA alum
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I've checked the box on "despair." Guess it's time to "get back to work." Inspired by @albertocairo.com's advice, in this new EffAff post, Gabby and I consider how simple visualizations 📊 of social change might encourage resilience on the path ahead. effaff.com/hope-despair...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

One Million Applause for One Million Checkboxes 👏✅👏✅👏 Check out @itseieio.bsky.social's brilliant talk on games, connecting strangers, and how some very smart teens subverted his code and touched his heart ❤️‍🔥 youtu.be/j2elKdupD6c

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

This course not only introduced me to the world of birding but also reignited my interest in creative coding! It taught me what a fun/creative/supportive coding environment *could* look like, full of whimsical sketches and whacky ideas. Would highly recommend!

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Love this!

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Ready, set, scroll! How long does it take you to scroll through a million pixels? Find out with @priyamisner.bsky.social's millionpixeldash.com Reply with your times 😁

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

project 1: Map Designer, a #dataviz tool and @figma.com plug in that simplifies the process creating and customizing maps in Figma! Had a lot of fun learning how to translate d3-geo's svg paths into Figma's vector networks. try it out and let me know what you think! www.figma.com/community/pl...

submitted 54 days ago • 3 comments

Wrote up a lil blog post about implementing a Beeswarm chart 📊 using Svelte 5 + D3! This is me learning/sharing as I go so I probably (definitely) got some stuff wrong 🙃 If you have a better approach for force simulations in Svelte 5 lmk! here.luisavasquez.com/thoughts/bee...

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

What if each U.S. National Park had a cookie-cutter section removed and placed on a giant chessboard for easy comparison? My latest, with Wendy Shijia Wang: charts.substack.com/p/delicious-...

submitted 242 days ago • 0 comments

I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:

submitted 279 days ago • 8 comments

I was lucky to be paired with the amazing @hannahdormido.bsky.social as part of the @datavizsociety.bsky.social mentorship program over the past couple of months. We had weekly chats about life, careers, & journalism. And she guided me through writing a fun story! 📊👉 charlotte-walkability.vercel.app

submitted 286 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Questions in Dataviz: How do we take inspiration from textile dataviz? Book review #27 reviews Record, Map & Culture Art by Jordan Cunliffe. A great book showcasing textile art to inspire all dataviz and data art practitioners, textile or otherwise 📊 questionsindataviz.com/2024/04/18/h...

submitted 312 days ago • 1 comment

A cool read on creating weighted, random distributions using excel to design a quilt thecrookedhem.substack.com/p/the-ellswo...

submitted 348 days ago • 0 comments

This one took a bit of work, but really like the quilting feel of it. Took my earlier #Generative #linocut and added half size stippled black triangles. Rotation of the stippled triangles also set by the roll of a d4. #GenerativeDice #dataart #dataviz 📊

submitted 370 days ago • 2 comments

📊 Two of the things Luisa Vasquez (@vluisa.bsky.social) loves are reading and sewing. So, when she saw a way she could combine her two loves while sprinkling in some data viz, she had to document her process in creating a quilt visualizing her 2023 reading list. nightingaledvs.com/quilting-my-...

submitted 376 days ago • 0 comments

I'm on vacation and that's why here's already the next Svelte ❤️ D3 video. This time: How to build a responsive map from a geojson file. 📊🗺️ ➡️ youtu.be/W7nkruZ2q0s

submitted 383 days ago • 1 comment

"Helvetica is more than a font, it’s a state of mind". In our latest blog post, Stamen cartographer @mappingmashups.bsky.social takes us on a typographic tour through the font selection in our signature "Toner" map style. stamen.com/helvetica-is...

submitted 391 days ago • 0 comments

I’m excited to share a data art project I’ve been working on this month! It’s a quilt made using the data of all the books I read in 2023 📊

submitted 392 days ago • 4 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 392 days ago • 3 comments

@albertocairo.bsky.social ‘s new book arrived just in time for some airport reading!

submitted 474 days ago • 0 comments

Save the date for outlier conference! June 12-14, 2024 | Chicago USA Chicago is very lovely in June so that’s just an extra bonus.

submitted 476 days ago • 0 comments