Charlotte Hadley (she/her)
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Charlotte Hadley (she/her)
@charliejhadley.bsky.social
Data visualisation coach, evangelist and maker (and Founder) @ www.gpcds.com
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Rules for myself on starting again with Bluesky.

All tech is political. From energy, to silicon and software. You can’t escape it.

But. This is going to be a positive space for me and not a doomscroll replacement.

I’m very pessimistic about GenAI. Too much so… and so I’m going to not engage.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I appreciate the choice to dunk on a way to talk about my love of creative dataviz folks in our community

Colour mappings come from my {ggplot2wrapped} pkg I quickly re-utilised those for this post as I’m a busy self-employed woman

Accuracy of bars was less important than space filling 🍩 + fun 🎉
Can you guess which basic #dataviz errors this graphic features?

Why in the world wouldn't the colour mapping be the same across the four donuts?

And why not a 100% stacked bar chart instead of donuts?

Just like movies about making movies, data graphics about making data graphics are never good.
Can you guess the #tidytuesday creator based only on which geoms they use most?

Shout out to @ansgarw.bsky.social, @rodrigo404.bsky.social, @cararthompson.bsky.social + @nrennie.bsky.social for their amazing + beautiful #dataviz with R

Try gpcds.com/ggplot2wrapped-2025 to analyse your own geom use
December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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damn
December 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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White House ratio'd by the smallest possible pop star.
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Pop star Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using “Juno” in an ICE arrest video:

“This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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R: the language that sets the gold standard for dataviz!

Anonymous user K. Midas says: "I love it!"

(from a cheeky #rayshader figure in an upcoming blog post about rendering 3D plots with "golden hour" lighting by generating synthetic sunsets, entirely in #RStats with #rayrender)
December 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Can you guess the #tidytuesday creator based only on which geoms they use most?

Shout out to @ansgarw.bsky.social, @rodrigo404.bsky.social, @cararthompson.bsky.social + @nrennie.bsky.social for their amazing + beautiful #dataviz with R

Try gpcds.com/ggplot2wrapped-2025 to analyse your own geom use
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Amazing headline.

h/t @brianstelter.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Merry December folks!

Wanna know your most used and co-dependent geoms this past year?!

I've built "Spotify Wrapped" for {ggplot2} that produces you an interactive story and analytical tools for your geom usage! #rstats

Build your own report by following the docs:
gpcds.com/ggplot2wrapp...
December 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.

I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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lol sign worked
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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The conversation about the NYC election is not actually about the NYC election. It’s about the vile and hated useless old guard Dem establishment finally being shown the door and the possibility of something new and better. A thing many, many people have been DESPERATE for.
The most popular candidate is a socialist in a time where fascism is sweeping the nation. He represents politics and policies that have felt completely impossible. And his wild popularity has inspired the country and created hope where none existed. That’s why.
Does the mayor of New York have access to nuclear weapons or something? Is there no council or anything to restrain them if they decide to go to war with Boston? Other than that or them gaining the keys to the portal to Hell via election, I'm not sure why this election is constantly everywhere.
October 31, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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This SNAP issue in the USA is insane.

40 million Americans rely on these payments to afford FOOD!

12% of the population.

That's 1 in 8 people.

In food poverty.

In by far the largest economy on Earth.

And Reform wants all of this for the UK, coupled with the expressed aim to privatise our NHS.
October 31, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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interior design where you're just randomly pressing buttons for yellow gold, white marble, and crystal chandelier to remind everyone you're very rich
October 31, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Never fuck your dead kid’s childhood best friend.

Anyway. Apple TV makes fucking great sci-fi drama.
October 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Slop watch
October 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Imagine a thriller where the antagonist incriminates themselves by their ORCID.

Wouldn’t you just lose your shit?!

Folks everything yelling “what the fuck is an ORCID”.
October 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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All you have to do is look at the first post of all of these accounts to see THEY ARE HERE TO TROLL. Don’t take the bait.

bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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A themed chart for #TidyTuesday this week using data from the FAO on food security!

🌳 Voronoi treemap data wrangling with {WeightedTreemap}
🎨 Colours from {rcartocolor}
📊 Plotted with #ggplot2

#RStats #DataViz
October 14, 2025 at 9:56 PM