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Crafting data experiences at http://truth-and-beauty.net

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Illustration of a man with exaggerated arms and torso riding a bicycle.

Illustration of a man with exaggerated arms and torso riding a bicycle.

🎨Lola Dupré

03.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 116 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1

Look closely, there are hints :)

04.03.2026 10:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Maps with hatchings in different colors and directions.

Maps with hatchings in different colors and directions.

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#wip

03.03.2026 21:06 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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User-Interfacedesign (UI) & User-Experience (UX) in Potsdam studieren! Studiere Interfacedesign an der FH Potsdam! Der innovative Studiengang verbindet User-Experience (UX) mit KreativitΓ€t, Technologie und viel Design.

Gestalte digitale ZukΓΌnfte!

Im BA-Studiengang Interfacedesign der FH Potsdam lernst du User-Experience (UX) mit User-Interfacedesign (UI) kreativ zu verbinden – von Apps ΓΌber Datenvisualisierung bis Virtual Reality.

Bewerbungsfrist ist der 1. April.

interface.fh-potsdam.de

03.03.2026 09:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Good demo here from Clara about why editorial framing decisions in chart design matters so much. Both chart date ranges are legitimate choices to make, both truthful, each show different story.

03.03.2026 10:22 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Wenn es doch nur eine Technologie gΓ€be, die wir jetzt massiv ausbauen kΓΆnnten, die uns erlauben wΓΌrde, unabhΓ€ngiger von Γ–l & Gas zu werden, langfristig die Kosten senkt und nebenbei damit auch noch damit die Klimakrise lΓΆst. 🧐

03.03.2026 08:43 πŸ‘ 1837 πŸ” 398 πŸ’¬ 77 πŸ“Œ 16

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

13.02.2026 21:37 πŸ‘ 8356 πŸ” 2428 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 4

15 years?! Wow.. thank you @ocks.org @jasondavies.com @fil.rezo.net and all other contributors over all those years πŸ™Œ

27.02.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Truth, Beauty, and Brains Moritz Stefaner's visualization about the state of Neuroscience

In the Open Visualization Academy newsletter: Friends of the OVA, Episode 3, a conversation with @moritzstefaner.bsky.social about his recent State of Neuroscience project openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/truth-beau...

#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

26.02.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Cloudbreak 3 title image featuring white text over a grayscale cumulus cloud.

Cloudbreak 3 title image featuring white text over a grayscale cumulus cloud.

Pleased to announce the next Cloudbreak.

Learn how to deploy & secure your own sovereign cloud infrastructure using best practices refined from over 2 decades of server administration.

This is an ideal opportunity to become part of the movement away from BigTech.

courses.nikau.io/cloudbreak

23.02.2026 08:13 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

🀩

23.02.2026 12:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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some benevolent cyberpunk for you

22.02.2026 01:46 πŸ‘ 2373 πŸ” 736 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 93

Curling is my highlight of these games.

21.02.2026 09:23 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Back when I worked on iD (the default OpenStreetMap editor) I designed over 270 bespoke map icons to illustrate various feature types. These are free and open source.

A guided gallery of my icon work is now available on my portfolio: waysidemapping.org/projects/id-...

25.08.2025 17:27 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), πŸ“Έ by @tiltoncreative

19.02.2026 21:26 πŸ‘ 5634 πŸ” 1368 πŸ’¬ 36 πŸ“Œ 76

I was so fortunate yesterday to spend a superb 2 hours chatting with @moritzstefaner.bsky.social & @ebertini.bsky.social exploring some of the most significant data viz works that have shaped their careers. This will be released as a double 'Explore Explain' episode special out early next month.

19.02.2026 08:47 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

18.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 20818 πŸ” 5584 πŸ’¬ 217 πŸ“Œ 376

Epic

17.02.2026 19:15 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Sich von Shitstorms selektiv beeindrucken zu lassen. ist halt auch eine Entscheidung. Der von rechts fΓΌhrt zu einer Γ„nderung in der Blattlinie, wird ernstgenommen: der von links ist Cancel Culture, Kulturkampf und unsachliche Kritik

17.02.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 1162 πŸ” 284 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 3

Er: β€žWenn es MΓ€nner nicht gΓ€be, wer wΓΌrde Euch Frauen dann beschΓΌtzen?β€œ
Sie: β€žBeschΓΌtzen? Vor wem?β€œ

Dieser Take, der gefΓΌhlt schon seit 100 Jahren auf TikTok viral geht, ist immer noch einer der besten Diskussionshilfen zum Thema toxische MΓ€nnlichkeit. πŸ’πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

17.02.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 1545 πŸ” 330 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 6

Ah, sorry, wrong chat! :D

17.02.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Claude, formulate a witty response!

17.02.2026 11:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Never wanted an intern, now I have Claude.

17.02.2026 11:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

love a bit of continvouclous morging

16.02.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 832 πŸ” 231 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 44
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Dream job alert in eigener Sache: Wir suchen eine Werkstudent:in Datenjournalismus! πŸ“Š

⏳20h/Woche, befristet auf 12 Monate

Jetzt bewerben: jobs.spiegelgruppe.de/Vacancies/13...

16.02.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

15.02.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 10964 πŸ” 2782 πŸ’¬ 110 πŸ“Œ 33
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In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud β€” 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator Who knew listening to a banana sounded so good?

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

15.02.2026 19:46 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 60 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 24
A grid of 140 small images representing the 'thumbnails' of Observable notebooks. Below each is a small block of text (largely unreadable at this scale) with the title of each notebook.

A grid of 140 small images representing the 'thumbnails' of Observable notebooks. Below each is a small block of text (largely unreadable at this scale) with the title of each notebook.

I do think one of the most significant developments in computing in the last decade (apart from ~that~ one) has been the computational notebook.

Browsing through my @observablehq.com notebooks, they capture my visual and computational thinking more effectively than anything that preceded them.

15.02.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

Wann verstehen Konservative, dass Demokratieschutz konservativ ist, weil er bewahrt; wann verstehen Liberale, dass Demokratieschutz liberal ist, weil er Freiheiten sichert und wann verstehen Sozialdemokraten, dass Demokratieschutz sozial ist, weil er die SchwΓ€chsten der Gesellschaft schΓΌtzt?
1/2

15.02.2026 00:38 πŸ‘ 77 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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This is probably ok

14.02.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 10878 πŸ” 1659 πŸ’¬ 163 πŸ“Œ 173