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Brittany

@brrosenau.bsky.social

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design enthusiast | tableau visionary | iron viz finalist '23 | ✈️🐠🥁📊 Internet Shenanigans: https://linktr.ee/brrosenau

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · May 29

Nearly 300 people submitted over 18 million steps tracked at this year's Tableau Conference in San Diego. The data - steps, miles, kilometers, favorite shoes and more is now in your hands. I can't wait to see what everyone creates! #tableau #dataviz brittanyrosenau.medium.com/visualize-ta...

Visualize Tableau Conference: Results of the Tableau Conference 2025 Step Tracker

The data is in — time to viz!

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 11h

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1674

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 17h

what a delightful little nightmare, 10/10 was absolutely dataviz triggered

Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 6d

Need a new job? Pocket Boss is OUT NOW!

pocketboss.ch 📊 💬

A delightfully odd fusion of work and play. Now available on iOS, Android, Steam and itch.io.

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The Oatmeal @theoatmeal.bsky.social · 6d

Helpful

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 6d

No worries - I appreciate the credit! Glad to see the technique making the rounds again so more folks can learn about it for the first time.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 10d

Before creating For You I actually built a link-focused personalized feed Links For You.

It uses the same algorithm but:
- it only looks at posts with links
- it groups all posts with the same link to avoid showing different posts that have the same link

Feedback welcome!

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 8d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 7d

This is Boksil. She is reaching levels of cozy previously unheard of. 12/10 a trailblazer (IG: with_bokdanji)

a small cream colored dog stares up at us. this is Boksil, swaddled in a grey robe, and tucked underneath a thick blanket on a bed. her little paws poke out of the robe's sleeves, and her toe beans are in full view. her tiny pink tongue mlems from her grinning mouth.

a higher angle of Boksil. a small yellow pillow rests beside her for scale, and her eyes are closed peacefully as she rests swaddled under a white blanket, looking very cozy.

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 7d

10/10, no notes

Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 7d

THE FORMAT IS COMING OUT WITH A NEW ALBUM IN JANUARY?!???? youtu.be/CLCG18kI1xE?...

The Format - Holy Roller [Official Music Video]

YouTube video by The Format

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 8d

While Zach has been a great promoter of this technique, I'm the one who developed it while we worked together at JLL. (there was going to be a mandate for overlays, and i hated the idea of maintaining powerpoint files). I've got a blog post walking through this as well! medium.com/@brittanyros...

Create a dashboard overlay — ENTIRELY in Tableau

No Figma? No problem. Build an overlay using native features — no powerpoint, images, or advanced techniques needed.

medium.com

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 9d

"What if you could just let the sights and sounds of a peaceful, friendly forest erase every last annoying or exhausting or terrifying thought in your head?"

I Have Decided to Live the Remainder of My Life as a Simple Woodland Creature

Admittedly, this plan raised some eyebrows when I brought it up with my husband. First just: “What?” Then: “Seriously, what the hell are you talkin...

buff.ly

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 11d

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 11d

It's Showgirl time.

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 11d

just realized that since i’m not in the eastern time zone anymore i don’t have to wait till MIDNIGHT for the new taylor swift album what a win

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 11d

This is Denni. She took an unexpected babysitting shift when she found a baby koala in her yard. She cheerfully delivered the joey to her human, who put them back in the tree to be reunited with their mom. 14/10 (FB: Steve Lamplough)

Denni, a golden retriever with a sweet face, sits and looks up at the camera with a smile. she has a passenger clinging to her back. a baby koala. the joey's eyes peak over the top of Denni's head.

Denni is standing and looking off to the left of the frame. the baby koala on her back looks at the camera.

a super zoomed photo of the baby koala and their mom high up in a tree. the adult koala holds onto her joey and looks down at the camera with what we would like to think is appreciation for caring for her baby.

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 11d

settings > accessibility > require alt text before posting, and you’ll never forget again

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11d

Please use alt text when posting illustrations or photos or other images. I realize it feels like an inconvenience if you didn't ever do it at the other place, but folks who need it are a zillion times more inconvenienced every single day.

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 12d

“But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.”

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12d

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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👻HaunTed👻★ 韓聖安 @knowtheory.net · 12d

Tomorrow is #bandcampfriday!

I wanna hear your recs! I want to see them fill this feed I created!

bsky.app/profile/did:...

TELL US WHAT WE SHOULD CHECK OUT

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Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 12d

Barbie is now the first film to join the Six Million Watched Club on Letterboxd ✨

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12d

i feel like im going crazy bc housing prices are crushing me and every day i wake up and see the political convo being "is cantaloupe is woke?" "did TGIF change its logo?" "are we renaming new mexico to new america?"

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · Sep 12

Painted this dog and I really liked the regal expression on his face

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Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 12d

*slow clap*

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Brittany @brrosenau.bsky.social · 13d

caught up with years of downton abbey in time to see the finale in a packed theater

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15d

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

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Kevin Wee 黃克文 @kevinwee.bsky.social · 15d

The revised design enables readers to analyze #data unobstructedly, as the metric lines are placed in juxtaposition. The line segmentation and yrly average lines facilitate the detection of seasonality at both mthly & yrly levels.

Thanks, @brrosenau.bsky.social, for inspiring the viz format.

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Screenshot of Kevin Wee's Tableau Public viz, entitled Dual-Pane Cycle Plot(ish): Comparing Two Metrics at Monthly and Yearly levels. The viz contains two charts, both showing the same two metrics: (1) A typical dual-axis chart with a line overlapping a bar in the same coordinate, and (2) A dual-pane segmented line chart. In the latter design, the two metrics are placed in juxtaposition, segmented by year and supplemented with yearly average lines.

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