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Amber Thomas

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Data Viz Engineer at USAFacts. Big fan of using data, visualization, and storytelling to make info simpler and more accessible. Opinions are my own.

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Can Data Die? Tracking the Lenna Image Why one of the Internet’s oldest images lives on without its subject’s consent

This may be similar to what youre trying to do: pudding.cool/2021/10/lenna/ Looks like the source isn’t *just* scientific publications, but it does look like Google Scholar was one place where data was collected

26.11.2024 18:58 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

This is very fun! The letters filling the space beneath the line really makes the viz more impactful

26.11.2024 18:44 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hadn’t seen the style guide site yet — I love it!

23.11.2024 22:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You probably know me as the person who made charts out of play doh: www.amycesal.com/portfolio#/d...

Or as a co-founder of @datavizsociety.bsky.social

I want you to know me as a person who can help you build a data viz style guide: www.datavizstyleguide.com

23.11.2024 20:12 👍 30 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
Many circles of different sizes, representing a visualization of inequality

Many circles of different sizes, representing a visualization of inequality

The Gini coefficient is the standard way to measure inequality, but what does it mean, concretely? I made a little visualization to build intuition:
www.bewitched.com/demo/gini

23.11.2024 15:35 👍 199 🔁 57 💬 10 📌 8

Interested in how the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social 📊 data viz team builds interactive data tools? The @svelte.dev code powering this recent piece is open source and available on Github: github.com/UrbanInstitu...

22.11.2024 19:34 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

This 2018 piece about how minuscule pockets are in women’s jeans is definitely my claim to dataviz fame ✨ pudding.cool/2018/08/pock...

It was so much fun to build this one with @jadiehm.bsky.social and I love how much people still enjoy it 🥰

22.11.2024 02:07 👍 44 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 2

Alexa (@alexaheinrich.bsky.social) has created one of the best resources on digital media accessibility that I've seen. Anyone working in digital media creation should add this to their working library.

20.11.2024 16:16 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

The ghosty trails here are so good! The way the far right of the line whips so much more than the far left? Totally fascinating

19.11.2024 00:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A list of data/graphics journalists. Since I first started this on the other site, there are SO many more people who do this work.

15.11.2024 13:26 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0

Here you go. 🫡

Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊

go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy

01.09.2024 18:21 👍 224 🔁 120 💬 23 📌 33

"a free, open source, and constantly expanding library of knowledge of anything related to information design and visualization (not just data visualization) that I’ll curate. All videos, writings, or any other resource we put online will be freely accessible to and downloadable by anyone."

12.11.2024 17:33 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A cumulative line chart with the title "About 16% less fentanyl was seized by September 2024 than by September 2023". The chart shows the cumulative amount of fentanyl seized at US borders each year between 2019 and 2023. In 2019 - 2021, annual totals were around between 3 and 10K pounds. In 2022, the annual total was nearly 20K and 2023 the total was around 25K.

A cumulative line chart with the title "About 16% less fentanyl was seized by September 2024 than by September 2023". The chart shows the cumulative amount of fentanyl seized at US borders each year between 2019 and 2023. In 2019 - 2021, annual totals were around between 3 and 10K pounds. In 2022, the annual total was nearly 20K and 2023 the total was around 25K.

Love the examples here! The steps are particularly nice.

My team has been building these types of charts recently to show YTD totals with historical context on pages where the data updates every month.

15.11.2024 02:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reuters News Internship Program 2024 (Temp Guild) – New York – Graphics Internship in New York, New York, United States of America | News & Editorial Careers at Thomson Reuters Apply for Reuters News Internship Program 2024 (Temp Guild) – New York – Graphics Internship job with Thomson Reuters in New York, New York, United States of America. News & Editorial Careers at Thoms...

Hi since we're all here again — we're hiring a (paid, ofc) intern!

We're the dream team, big enough to have resources for ambitious and weird stuff, small enough that no one falls through the cracks. Apply!

careers.thomsonreuters.com/us/en/job/JR...

14.11.2024 18:35 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0

Well hello! 👋 So excited you're here!

15.11.2024 02:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've been missing my #dataviz Twitter friends and I hear this is where many of them resettled. Hoping to reconnect! 😊

15.11.2024 02:06 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0