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Iva Brunec

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data scientist in toronto / maps and dataviz / almost useless trivia knowledge https://ivabrunec.github.io/

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Left Outside @leftoutside.bsky.social · Apr 13

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · Apr 12

There's been a committed effort by people like Richard Hanania into mainstreaming race science and eugenics and it's, shamefully, mostly worked. Hanania in particular is a crude, blathering moron bigot using fourth rate statistics to justify his gutter bigotry

Branden McEuen but he’s spooky @bmceuen.bsky.social · Apr 12

It would appear CNN was also at the eugenics conference? Why are all these mainstream news orgs at a 200-person event where all the speakers are eugenicists and racists? www.cnn.com/2025/04/11/u...

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 10

#30daychartchallenge day 10: multimodal.
I could probably find activities with even more variability but I was curious about the shape of how Canadians tend to spend their days across age: work, school, sleep.

Code: github.com/ivabrunec/30...

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404 Media @404media.co · Apr 9

Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People

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Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People

The database allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, including visa status, “unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos),” “criminal affiliation,” license plat...

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Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 6

Thanks Hugo!

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 6

Taking some Sunday inspiration for day 6: Florence Nightingale day. I did a coxcomb graph of the amount of time Canadians spend on DIY projects, by month. Big month coming up.

Code: github.com/ivabrunec/30...

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 6

Realized the caption should say >0 mins and now I'm annoyed at myself.

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 6

Forgot to add the data source again. It's the Canadian Time Use Survey! www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/45-25...

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 6

A simple one for day 5 of #30daychartchallenge: ranking.
A lollipop chart of the amount of time Canadians spend with different groups of people, at different ages.

Code: github.com/ivabrunec/30...

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 3

Day 3 of #30daychartchallenge: circular.
Circles in a circle. Is it good dataviz? No. But it is circular. Canadians' self-reported workaholic status, each circle = 1 person, size of circle = hrs of work.
Basically, don't believe people who say they're workaholics.
Code: github.com/ivabrunec/30...

Circle-packing dataviz depicting hours worked color-coded by workaholic-status.

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 3

Today in "Toronto's consultation process needs reform": the city sent me an invitation by mail to a consultation about a retroactive approval for an *enclosed front porch* about 5 doors down. Which we can't even see from the front or back of our house. Why should I get to weigh in on that!

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 3

Ah good catch, I forgot to include it here. The data is from the Canadian Time Use Survey: www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/45-25...

General Social Survey – Public Use Microdata Files

These public use microdata files (PUMF) from the General Social Survey provide data on social trends in order to monitor changes in the living conditions and well-being of Canadians over time.

www150.statcan.gc.ca

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 3

Honestly, I haven't been able to figure out the raw text files, so I'm just using the SAS data files provided. Unfortunately just for 2022 and 2005, so those are the years I'll be looking at.

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 2

Day 2 of #30DayChartChallenge: Slope.
Canadians spent a *lot* more time alone in 2022 compared to 2005. But that comparison is especially stark for young Canadians.

Code: github.com/ivabrunec/30...

Data visualization depicting a stark increase in self-reported time spent alone in the canadian time use survey from 2005 to 2022. Density plot below depicts two distributions with very different peaks.

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 2

So glad to hear! It was a bit experimental so entirely possible the code could be more efficient/organized.

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 2

Planning on comparisons! Just warming up/getting acquainted today. It's such a rich source!

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Apr 1

I decided I'll try to make all my charts for #30DayChartChallenge this year from a single data source - the Canadian Time Use Survey.
First up: Day 1 - Fractions. What % of Canadians don't get their 8h of sleep?

Code: github.com/ivabrunec/30...

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · Mar 31

Today's newsletter: www.readtpa.com/p/navigating...

Navigating Trans Day of Visibility in Trump's America

What it means to be seen when your government is actively trying to erase you

www.readtpa.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Mar 30

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID.

This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

‘Climate of fear’: Montreal doctor says NYU cancelled her presentation

A Montreal doctor says her presentation at NYU was abruptly cancelled and believes the university did so out of fear of being pressured by the Donald Trump administration.

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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · Mar 30

Also, *because* these COBOL systems are old ...

... the code is *very* bug-free

The maintainers have had decades to find and fix all the flaws in the system

In contrast, as any developer will tell you, the newer a code base is ...

... the more bugs it's gonna have, the more it'll crash

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"The sheer age of those COBOL systems is, oddly, actually something that works in their favour. Because they’re old, they have been relentlessly debugged. When a program is first written, it inevitably has problems. Sometimes it’s a typo, a misplaced command; other times, the user does something the programmer never expected, and things crash. When you get a new app, if it’s buggy and crash-prone, this is why: the creators sent it out into the world with lots of these little flaws. It can take days, weeks, or years to discover all the problems."

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Mar 29

My cat was fully grey when he was found about 5 months ago. Now he's getting patches of orange which fully tracks because he's always behaved like an orange cat, brain cells-wise.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 24

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · Mar 27

the AI studio ghibli graphic the White House just tweeted mocking someone's deportation actually filled me with a level of despair that i can't even put to words

Josh Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · Mar 27

Seeing a lot of genAI art used in the service of fascism lately

scene from Porco Rosso; a man in a blue uniform sits next to an anthropomorphic pig in a trenchcoat, sunglasses, and hat; the pig is saying "I'd rather be a pig than a fascist."

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · Mar 27

I understand the purpose and utility of centering these incidents but it would be nice if people just cared because other people's lives were being ruined and not potentially their own

Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Mar 27

This is the inevitable outcome of transphobic ideology. It harms cis people as well as trans if you don't fit a stereotype. If you don't look or act a specific way conjured up in the minds of the gender critical brigade you are, what they consider, a fair target.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/03/27/c...

6'4 cis woman says Walmart fired her after customer 'accused' her of being trans

A cisgender woman who says she was fired from Walmart after a customer “accused” her of being trans says the situation is “heartbreaking”.

www.thepinknews.com

Iva Brunec @ivabrunec.bsky.social · Mar 27

Nice, excited to see it! And yeah, real exercise in font sizes/ggrepel for me.