We are very happy to announce the formal release of Panel: A high-level app and dashboarding solution for Python from Anaconda. Many thanks to the contributors so far and to BokehPlots for providing a great tool to build on. See the Medium blog post: medium.com/@philipp.jfr/p…

New on Multiple Views: MU Collective introduces TheyDrawIt, an authoring tool for creating embeddable NYT "You Draw It" style visualizations. Check it out! bit.ly/2xHg0Ow Multiple Views: Visualization Research Explained

New project: I recreated and restored Elizabeth Twining's 1868 catalog, Illustrations of the Natural Orders of Plants, comprising 160 interactive illustrations and of course new posters: c82.net/twining. Plus, there's an in-depth blog post made: c82.net/blog?id=80

Founder of modern nursing. Feminist champion. Celebrity entrepreneur. Passionate statistician. Political operator. Social scientist. #dataviz pioneer. Florence Nightingale was all of these. RJ Andrews explores her life & impact on #datavisualization. medium.com/data-visualiza…

Excited to share our #datavis notebook curriculum for learning visualization! Visual encoding, data transformation, interaction, maps, & more! Into Python? Here's Altair + Jupyter: github.com/uwdata/visuali… Prefer JavaScript? See Vega-Lite + Observable: observablehq.com/collection/@uw…

My article on uncertainty vis in SciAm is open for a few days! I hope it makes the research on this topic more accessible. My summary includes work by MU Collective (me & Matthew Kay) @LacePadilla @birdbassador & NYT Graphics among others scientificamerican.com/article/how-to…

Exploring #SouthAfrica's #biodiversity - I made a website for my artwork using #blogdown, #rstats & #netlify: mappamundi.netlify.com 🌍🦓🦏🐧🐢🐠🌻🐘🐊🐬🦒🐗🐛🦉🌾🌍 #painting #maps #acrylicpainting #mappamundi

Did you know that for 200 years we've known that spiders can fly but haven't really understood how they did that and we finally worked it out and the answer is "they ride the earth's magnetic fields at will"??? Nature is fucking awesome. theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Super excited to share some new work: fathom.info/laniakea It's our latest take on mapping enormous unstructured document collections. In this case, turning 100,000 journal articles into a navigable topographic map:

Traffic is so silly. Can you imagine if people walking down sidewalks all wore enormous suits that made their bodies take up 15x the space, and then everyone got really annoyed at how long it was taking to walk everywhere? Y'all.. just take off the suits

A beetle generator made by machine-learning thousands of #PublicDomain illustrations cunicode.com/works/confusin… by cunicode.bsky.social / artsy leftist geekism

Yay! My paper on class size in South African secondary schools has just been published as a Stellenbosch University RESEPgroup Economic Working Paper. Available here for anyone interested: ekon.sun.ac.za/wpapers/2020/w…

Major kudos to JasonForrest for crafting this beautiful story about a missing figure in dataviz history: Marie Neurath, who along with her husband created ISOTYPE and helped shape the modern conception of information design. #datavisualization medium.com/nightingale/th…

Glowing lava inside Chile's Villarrica Volcano created this searchlight through a snowstorm, with the Large Magellanic Cloud in the background. What a shot! (Credit: Cristobal Saavedra Escobar) reuters.com/news/picture/p…

Growing Neural Cellular Automata -- A new Distill article by Alex Mordvintsev, Ettore Randazzo, Eyvind Niklasson and Michael Levin distill.pub/2020/growing-c…

Book Dash is thrilled to announce that in partnership with the Otto Foundation South Africa's #READTODREAM campaign, we're piloting our first ever virtual Book Dash this Saturday. #everychild100books #bookdash #100before5

Students, come get involved! This is a great opportunity to work on an #Africa #datascience problem with an interesting data set. I'll be preparing a #rstats notebook to help get you started!

Announcing Arquero v1.0! 🏹 A #dplyr-inspired JavaScript API for query processing and transformation of array-backed data tables. 🔗 GitHub: github.com/uwdata/arquero 🏃 To get up & running, read Introducing Arquero: observablehq.com/@uwdata/introd…

The best image of Mars was made in 1965