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Information designer, Data visualization engineer at The Straits Times, Information design lecturer at the Lviv Arts Academy, US Fulbright Alumni | Opinions Are My Own 🌐 romansverdan.com 🌐 diagrammm.com 🌐 observablehq.com/@romansverdan

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Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · Feb 13

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Defense Against Dishonest Charts

This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · Dec 31

The glasses are clinking, the countdown is running, but you’re still thinking about data visualizations? We got you covered with our list of lists of 2024 data vis.

Check out personal favorites, portfolios, and award-winning vis from 2024 blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-31-2024/

Feature image, a giant 2024 in a handwriting font in the foreground, three visualizations, one of which is The Pudding Cup in the background.

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Roman Sverdan @romansverdan.bsky.social · Dec 30

ST Graphics 2024 wrapped up! 🎉 Dive into our year of #dataviz, #3D visuals, and other engaging stories here: str.sg/viz-graphics...
#STGraphics #datavis #visualstories

2024 in visual stories and digital graphics

From the colours of Singapore to the sights and sounds of places beyond, explore works by The Straits Times’ interactive graphics team.

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Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · Dec 17

End of the year! ✨🎄🎇 So here we've got a special Data Vis Dispatch for you: it comes from the whole Datawrapper team. We're sharing our favorite visualizations of 2024. Take a look here 🎁 https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-december-17-2024/ and tell us: what were your favorites?

Table of the scientific classification of the flower Dryas octopetala annotated with a handmade illustration. Created by Eleni from the Datawrapper team.

Screenshot of I “Made a Graph of Wikipedia... This Is What I Found”. Shown is a network graph of all Wikipedia articles and the links between them, resulting in a colourful representation of the world's collective knowledge. Among the most interesting findings are so-called communities, groups of articles that are more closely linked to each other than the rest of the site, represented by the individual colours. Published on YouTube by adumb.

This image shows a spectrogram of three sound types: elephant rumbles (mostly infrasonic, red), human speaking (audible range, blue), and bat noises (ultrasonic, yellow and blue), with frequency increasing from bottom to top on a logarithmic scale. Published by Financial Times.

Map of downtown Singapore with little 3D butterflies added where butterflies have been spotted in the area. Different colored butterflies represent different species. Published in The Straits Times.

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Roman Sverdan @romansverdan.bsky.social · Nov 22

Microplastics in the ocean! 🌊 Want to know more? Check out our latest #interactive #dataviz at The Straits Times: str.sg/viz-micropla...

#svelte #datavis #mapbox #3d #plastics #microplastics #oceans #environment #climate

Drowning in plastic: the oceans' growing constellations of trash

Amid vast, swirling currents, 170 trillion microplastic particles drift unseen through our oceans, creating hidden patches of pollution that threaten marine life and seep into our food chain

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Roman Sverdan @romansverdan.bsky.social · Oct 20

Explore Singapore's heritage buildings with one of our recent experiments using LiDAR Point Cloud data, #svelte and #threejs. Interactive: str.sg/viz-shophouses.

#dataviz, #datavis #lidar #pointcloud #3d

Singapore’s conserved properties must stand the test of time. One townhouse in Neil Road aims to show the way for the future.

Over 6,500 shophouses in Singapore are conserved for their historical and cultural value – but how can they stand the test of time, in the face of climate change, changes to their environment and dwin...

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Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social · Sep 26

Excited to launch a new project today!

🌊 Waves of Interest 🔍

We investigate how the search interest in political topics shifts across US election cycles, using Google Trends Data.

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Waves of Interest

Tracing Google Search Interest in US Election Years

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you consider yourself an established data viz practitioner, please please please consider applying!

Especially #D3js people! There are always way more mentees looking for d3 support in this program than there are mentors who could help.

Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · Sep 3

📊 Are you looking to grow your communication and coaching skills? Sign up to become a mentor to give back to the #dataviz community and help uncover hidden talents within our members. www.datavisualizationsociety.org/mentorship/m...

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Roman Sverdan @romansverdan.bsky.social · Sep 16

Continue playing with the #visualization of #russian personnel and equipment losses data. This time animated multi-line chart 📊 using #svelte #d3.

Interactive svelte component: svelte.dev/repl/2c3185b...

#dataviz #datavis #warinUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

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Roman Sverdan @romansverdan.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thank you!
There is the same data visualized as a treemap. Here is a link to the notebook: observablehq.com/@romansverda...

Roman Sverdan @romansverdan.bsky.social · Sep 14

Yes, y're right. Thanks a lot for pointing it out!
I forgot to exclude outliers from the legend color scale. There are two values, 2000 and 3160 of the personnel losses from the first weeks of the war, and the same for the APV category. Fixed it and added a spreadsheet view to the daily data.

Roman Sverdan @romansverdan.bsky.social · Sep 14

A weekly update on daily russian personnel and equipment losses in Ukraine are already available on my "calendar" charts. Not sure about the name of the chart, but the calendar seems like a good option.

Interactive #observable notebook:
observablehq.com/@romansverdan/ru-losses-in-ukraine

#dataviz

russian artillery losses in Ukraine since Feb 24, 2022

russian personnel losses in Ukraine since Feb 24, 2022

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Roman Sverdan @romansverdan.bsky.social · Sep 11

I often use #Svelte #Scroller in #dataviz projects, and only recently discovered that it supports custom queries as a prop, and can work with any kind of HTML tags in the foreground, not just sections as it is by default. It's time to say goodbye to ugly, non-semantic "Untitled Section"

Roman Sverdan @romansverdan.bsky.social · Sep 7

Perfect topic for my first ever post on #bsky.

I'm #dataviz developer at The Straits Times ( #Svelte, #Vue, #D3, #Three.js, #Threlte & many more). Information design lecturer at the Lviv Arts Academy (Ukraine).

Participated in many dataviz events and observed 17 elections in 11 countries

Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · Sep 6

With the influx of dataviz people, let's do some re-intros. 📊

— What's your claim to fame? ✨ —

How might we know you already?
What have you done that we might have seen or read before?
What would help us remember how we came across you?

Don't be shy: it's helping us reconnect and remember you 💡

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