Amanda Belton
@datacreative.bsky.social
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datacreative.bsky.social
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wearehades.bsky.social
Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there?
Sébastien Plutniak presents archeofrag, software to analyse spatial relationships in archaeological sites, enhancing our understanding of artifacts, sites, and excavation!
10 June, Zoom rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati...
Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there?
The archaeological space is continuous. Archaeological investigation, as surveys and excavation, is about discretising this space, determining rele...
rduevents.unimelb.edu.au
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shrikhalpada.dev
I think the thing I'm most excited to see over the next ~10 years of #dataviz is web-based content that interweaves long-form text and modular interactives.

Not as heavy as scrollytelling and not as aimless as a dashboard, but something in between.

This is what I was going for with the QR project!
datacreative.bsky.social
Enjoyed Jonathon Laskovsky's talk at @wearehades.bsky.social. Borders between states and borders between disciplines can be permeable while also being places of control. Rivers and seeds show the spaces and places that cross borders and challenge the authority of lines on a map.
Jonathon's talking head shows in bottom left while Fisk's 1944 colourful map of the Missippi floods showinf the different shapes of the river over the years is on the screen behind him.
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
A scrolling essay about scrolling, textual navigation, and interface design: "The scroll bar faded away, almost like a ghost of its former self, replaced by an emphasis on continuous motion instead of clear indicators." navigation-queues-navigation-cues.f451.studio?ref=thebrows...
Navigation queues | Navigation cues
A web-essay written by Domitille Debret, designed and developed by F451 for The HTML Review Issue 04, Spring 2025.
navigation-queues-navigation-cues.f451.studio
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chezvoila.com
In a fascinating twist of social media, this excellent post *from two months ago* is the talk of the dataviz 📊 town this week. One hundred reposts, 400 likes — and some of the quotes have even more than this.

Stay weird, Bluesky!
obumbratta.com
Your map’s legend can be turned into a histogram, helping your audience understand the distribution in addition to decoding the colours.
Two maps of US unemployment rates by county. They are identical except that the legend in the second has been converted into a histogram.
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thedailytism.com
Cthulhu, described as “a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind,” disclosed their diagnosis after Kanye West made a similar claim.
“I have autism” announces Cthulhu
A gigantic entity worshiped by cultists, Cthulhu, has announced that he is evil because he has autism. Cthulhu, described as “a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head who...
thedailytism.com
datacreative.bsky.social
Looking forward to this!
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ethanscottlab.bsky.social
JOIN US! We're seeking a new PhD student in beautiful Melbourne🇦🇺.

Join our diverse, supportive team of optical physicists, neuroscientists, and mathematicians as we study how #zebrafish brains perceive the world.

Deadline: February 12th. Details👇. Please repost.