Why do boundaries matter? They often decide who wins. Look how control of our fictional town council changes between the reds and the blues as the ward boundaries move, even though nobody changes their vote.

It has been 50 years since #Apollo11 set off on its mission to take mankind onto the surface of the moon for the first time in history. Humanity's lunar love affair goes back much further than that, of course. Here, for example, is a 14th century lunar volvelle.

New post: "A picture may be worth a thousand words, but words frame a picture" | Titles and text play a fundamental role in visualization. Here is research demonstrating how they affect what people get out of a chart: medium.com/multiple-views….

Six ways to flood fill. observablehq.com/@mbostock/floo…

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…

If there's one group on earth taking the climate crisis seriously, it's the graphics department at The New York Times. This analysis of the spring floods in the Midwest is stunning in its detail and power nytimes.com/interactive/20…

"Each language gravitated toward an average rate of 39.15 bits/s. In comparison, the world’s first computer modem had a transfer rate of 110 bits/s and the average home internet connection today has a transfer rate of 100 Mbits/s (or 100 million bits)." sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/h…

Our secondee Yu Zhang from University of Oxford and the team from CBS.nl Statistics Netherlands say good bye for now after 2 months of exciting and productive collaboration on #riseneeds @MSCActions #DataScience #BigData

for Advent I am making palettes inspired by a set of French thematic maps Day 1 is from 1883's Album: davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/d…

We are 1.5years old at ⁦@MSCActions⁩ ⁦NeEDS Project⁩, and we are preparing the Mid-Term meeting! #riseneeds ⁦Copenhagen Business School⁩ ⁦CBS Department of Economics⁩ #datadriven #decisionmaking #interpretability ⁦European Research Executive Agency⁩

👇👇👇👇 September 14 @ 13.00 CEST Our @MSCActions Research and Innovation Staff Exchange NeEDS Project will start its Mid-Term meeting! Many (senior and junior) researchers joining in from different countries and continents! #riseneeds #datascience CBS Department of Economics Copenhagen Business School

Such a wonderful sunny Wednesday in #Copenhagen after completing one of our milestones at the @MSCActions Research and Innovation Staff Exchange Network of European Data Scientists, the MidTerm Meeting! NeEDS Project #riseneeds 👇👇👇👇