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**Letterform Archive** @letterformarchive@typo.social · 1d *

Letterform Archive @letterformarchive@typo.social

Walter R. Houghton, “Presidential Elections” from Conspectus of The History of Political Parties and the Federal Government, 1880. (via @infowetrust)

Data graphics are magical. Come learn how to make pictures that can help us discover and discuss otherwise invisible phenomena.

Persuasive Data Graphics
Workshop with RJ Andrews
Sat, May 3, 2025
10:00am–5:00pm PT
In Person at Letterform Archive

Learn more and register: https://letterformarchive.org/shop/persuasive-data-graphics-2025/?utm_source=Mastodon

Cropped detail of a wide infographic featuring intertwined bands of yellow (labeled DEMOCRAT), red (REPUBLICAN), and blue (WHIG). Surrounding the bands are moments in a timeline such as “ABOLITION OF SLAVERY; EQUAL RIGHTS. GENERAL GOVERNMENT CAN NOT ESTABLISH SLAVERY. VS. FUGITIVE SLAVE CLAUSE OF THE CONSTITUTION.
HUMAN BROTHERHOOD. FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH”

#Infographics #DataVisualization #DesignWorkshop

**Jane** @janeadams@datavis.social · 1d

Jane @janeadams@datavis.social

The CFP for the 2025 Information Plus conference is now out and available at our website here: https://informationplusconference.com/2025/submissions.html

Please consider submitting a presentation, workshop, or exhibition for the conference at Northeastern and MIT November 14-16! #InfoPlus #DataVisualization #DataJournalism #HCI #Humanities #Data #Art

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**Vis Lab @ Khoury, Northeastern** @KhouryVis@vis.social · 3d

Vis Lab @ Khoury, Northeastern @KhouryVis@vis.social

Have you ever wondered how bilingualism shapes reader preferences for annotated charts? Don't miss "Lost in Translation" at #CHI2025 next week ft. Anjana, Chris, and @lace ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr7DVbjCUoI

They'll be presenting at the Visualization and Language Communication track on Weds. April 30th at 10:12am

YouTubeLost in Translation: How Does Bilingualism Shape Reader Preferences for Annotated Charts?By ACM SIGCHI

#language #DataVisualization #linguistics

**Vis Lab @ Khoury, Northeastern** @KhouryVis@vis.social · 3d

Vis Lab @ Khoury, Northeastern @KhouryVis@vis.social

Headed to #CHI2025? Don't miss honorable mention paper "The Many Tendrils of the Octopus Map" by Eduardo Puerta & Shani Spivak (co-first-authors) and Michael Correll @Birdbassador - a retrospective analysis of these visual manifestations of conspiratorial thinking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyqyTkog_yY

Mon, 28 Apr | 12:10 PM - 12:22 PM

@ACM @chi #HCI #DataVisualization #Maps #Mapstodon

YouTubeThe Many Tendrils of the Octopus MapBy ACM SIGCHI

**GRASS GIS** @grassgis@fosstodon.org · 6d

GRASS GIS @grassgis@fosstodon.org

Dive into a GRASS tutorial!

Discover how to create plots directly in GRASS using tools powered by the matplotlib library. No conversion needed! Visualize your raster, vector, and time series data effortlessly. Check it out and give it a try!

#Tutorial #DataVisualization #GRASS #GIS #Python #Matplotlib

https://grass-tutorials.osgeo.org/content/tutorials/good_looking_plots/good_looking_plots_in_grass.html
https://grass-tutorials.osgeo.org/content/tutorials/good_looking_plots/good_looking_plots_in_grass.html

grass-tutorials.osgeo.orgMaking plots with GRASS

**Vis Lab @ Khoury, Northeastern** @KhouryVis@vis.social · Apr 17

Apr 17

Vis Lab @ Khoury, Northeastern @KhouryVis@vis.social

We're proud to announce that @janeadams , Melanie Tory, @michelle_borkin & collaborators from The Jackson Laboratory have won an honorable mention for best paper at @EuroVis for "Gridded Visualization of Statistical Trees for High-Dimensional Multipartite Data in Systems Genetics"! #Genetics #DataVisualization #MachineLearning

The Gridded Trees interactive interface: A. The Sankey diagram summarizes the conditional inference tree structure for the selected microbe
of interest (Lactobacillus) and trait (percent of time spent in the center of the chamber). B. Violin plots with strip plot overlays showing the trait values
of mice, organized by statistically determined group. An inset illustrates hover tooltip interactivity (see Fig. 5 for all tooltips). C. A grid of small multiples
comparing the microbe abundance for groups of mice at different nodes in the tree. Each beeswarm/violin plot compares microbe abundance for each
group (multicolored beeswarm) to the overall distribution (gray violin), highlighting key differences. Black lines indicate “split values” derived from
the conditional inference tree; gray dotted lines indicate the mean microbe abundance of all mice in the experiment.

Mapping the domain tasks to the Tree Tasks from Pandey et al.

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**Strypey** @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz · Apr 10

Apr 10

Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

#TIL about #D3JS;

"D3 (or D3.js) is a free, open-source JavaScript library for visualizing data. Its low-level approach built on web standards offers unparalleled flexibility in authoring dynamic, data-driven graphics."

https://github.com/d3/d3

#HatTip to @AdeptVeritatis who noticed that's what WeedTree is using for its visualisation.

#DataVisualization

**David Mason** @dn_mason@mas.to · Apr 4

Apr 4

David Mason @dn_mason@mas.to

Trying to explain to a non-European colleague about the difference between #GreatBritain and the #UnitedKingdom is such a mess.

Luckily, #Wikipedia has a nice #EulerDiagram for anyone who is interested.

An overlap (or Euler) diagram showing the different countries and states that consitute each of:
Great Britain (Scotland, England, Wales)
The UK (Great Britain, Northern Island)
The British Islands (UK, Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey)
Ireland the Island (The Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland)
British Isles (All of the above)

#DataVisualization #InfoGraphic

**3xfactorial** @3xfactorial@mastodon.social · Apr 4 *

Apr 4 *

3xfactorial @3xfactorial@mastodon.social

Next at #WorkshopsForUkraine: Effective #DataVisualization #DataViz in #R #RStats in Scientific Contexts, by Christian Gebhard, Thursday April 10th, 6 pm CET. Register or sponsor a place for a student by donating to support #Ukraine. Details: https://sites.google.com/view/dariia-mykhailyshyna/main/r-workshops-for-ukraine#h.b0g432iynobt

Poster with speaker's photo and talk details, stating that all proceeds going to support Ukraine

**SIB Swiss Bioinformatics** @SIB@mstdn.science · Mar 31 *

Mar 31 *

SIB Swiss Bioinformatics @SIB@mstdn.science

The programme for the #bc2basel tutorials & workshops is out! From #geneexpression analysis to #machinelearning or #datavisualization, beginner or advanced: boost your #bioinformatics skills!

a picture of a workshop at the [BC]2 Conference in Basel in 2023.

**Marian Dörk** @nrchtct@vis.social · Mar 31

Mar 31

Marian Dörk @nrchtct@vis.social

Promising 4-year, fully-funded PhD position in Architecture and Data Visualization at TU Delft – explore sensor data, design impacts, and ecology.

Apply by 15 Apr 2025!

https://careers.tudelft.nl/job/Delft-PhD-Position-in-Architecture-and-Data-Visualization-2628-CD/814989002/

careers.tudelft.nlPhD Position in Architecture and Data VisualizationPhD Position in Architecture and Data Visualization

#PhD #PhDPosition #Architecture

**Statistics Globe** @StatisticsGlobe@mastodon.social · Mar 28

Mar 28

Statistics Globe @StatisticsGlobe@mastodon.social

Understanding probability distributions is key to making informed decisions in statistics and data science. Probability distributions describe how the values of a variable are expected to behave, making them crucial for interpreting data and predicting outcomes.

The visualization shown in this post illustrates the distributions.

Further details: https://statisticsglobe.com/online-course-statistical-methods-r

#dataanalytic #tidyverse #rstats

**Vis Lab @ Khoury, Northeastern** @KhouryVis@vis.social · Mar 26

Mar 26

Vis Lab @ Khoury, Northeastern @KhouryVis@vis.social

Congratulations DOCTOR Liudas Panavas on the successful defense of his dissertation "Bridging the Gap: Human Centered Research for Democratizing #DifferentialPrivacy " and congrats to advisor @codydunne #HCI #DataVisualization

https://lpanavas.github.io/

**Paulo** @ecodiv@fosstodon.org · Mar 22 *

Mar 22 *

Paulo @ecodiv@fosstodon.org

I have been playing with the QGIS model designer a bit more. This time, to create a model that I can use to quickly compare how two raster layers by plotting their values in a scatter plot. https://ecodiv.earth/post/raster_scatterplot/. #QGIS #FOSS #osgeo #datavisualization

Creating a scatterplot based on the values of two raster layers.

**Max Frischknecht** @maxfrischknecht@tldr.nettime.org · Mar 19

Mar 19

Max Frischknecht @maxfrischknecht@tldr.nettime.org

At the beginning of the year, the Federal Office of Topography published the swissTNE Base, which summarises all transport routes (rail, road, cable and water).

Having this data, you can't avoid the temptation to recreate @benfry beautiful 2010 work All Streets

Map of switzerland soley based on rodes and public transportation. While the background is grey, the thin lines are in black. Altough the cartographic information is minimal, it the countries shapes is clearly recognizable.

#datavisualization #opendata #cartography

**Max Frischknecht** @maxfrischknecht@tldr.nettime.org · Mar 17

Mar 17

Max Frischknecht @maxfrischknecht@tldr.nettime.org

Happy to share that a few weeks ago I successfully defended my dissertation as the first doctoral student of Digital Humanities at the University of Bern (insigni cum laude).

My study under the title «Generative Data Design: Data Visualization as Argumentative Process in The Digital Humanities» developed a practical and critical design method that conceptualizes data visualization as an argumentative process (contrary to the idea of visualizations being neutral and objective) supporting the interpretation of digital cultural heritage collections.

A great thank you goes to my supervisors Tobias Hodel and Ulrike Felsing (University of Bern) as well as Kurt Fendt (MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing). And of course to all my friends, family and colleagues who supported this journey in a diversity of ways.

Next up: Publication process.

#digitalhumanities #datavisualization #criticaldatastudies