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Patrick Stotz
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💼 Co-lead data & visualizations @spiegel.de
🗺️ Blogging about maps at letsmakeamap.com
#dataviz #ddj #maps #rstats
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givingwhatwecan.bsky.social
Being born is a roll of the dice.

Most of us got insanely lucky.

Imagine you had to roll again, how would you want the world to look?

www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery
Birth Lottery
If you were reborn today, where would you land? And how would that change your life?
www.givingwhatwecan.org
December 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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obumbratta.com
New Year, New Colour Tool
for you data visualizers and maybe the odd designer

obumbratta.com/colour
January 7, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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☀️ #dataviz
beckydale.bsky.social Becky Dale @beckydale.bsky.social · 20d
New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output.

Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Two part graphic showing the daily contribution of solar in Great Britain’s electricity. The top half is a single tile chart arranged in 30-minute blocks from midnight on left to 23:59 on right with each row representing one day and ordered top-to-bottom from 1 January to 31 December 2025. Blocks are shaded by strength of generation share. In 2025, more than a dozen blocks are dark orange to show share above 40 percent. Contribution in summer days is longer and generally stronger than in winter. The second part of the graphic repeats the format as a small multiple with one fart for each year from 2013 to 2024. Each year increases in strength over that period but 2025 is the greatest contributor overall.
January 2, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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urbandemog.bsky.social
Working with big spatial data sets in #rstats? You should try {duckspatial}. The dev version of #duckspatial (soon on CRAN) uses #duckdb to perform super fast and memory efficient spatial operations cidree.github.io/duckspatial/...
In a benchmark against, {sf}....
December 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
patrickstotz.bsky.social
Ein kleiner Einblick in die Arbeit als Datenjournalist - und was es technisch und organisatorisch braucht, um mehr als 1100 AfD-Zitate zu digitalisierten und interaktiv aufzubereiten.

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
December 30, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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chezvoila.com
It’s real. 📊

Source: www.cfr.org/expert-brief...
thelastmileusaid.bsky.social The Last Mile with USAID @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social · 28d
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
Line chart titled “Halloween Candy Spending Surpasses President Trump’s Humanitarian Aid Funding in 2025.” The chart compares U.S. humanitarian aid spending and U.S. Halloween candy spending from 2019 to 2025 in billions of dollars. Humanitarian aid, shown in orange, rises from about $8 billion in 2019 to a peak near $16 billion around 2022, then declines sharply to about $3.4 billion in 2025. Halloween candy spending, shown in green, increases steadily from about $2.2 billion in 2019 to about $3.9 billion in 2025, surpassing humanitarian aid in the final year. Note indicates humanitarian aid data reported by UN OCHA as of December 19, 2025. Source is the Council on Foreign Relations.
December 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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atack.bsky.social
Unwahrscheinlich, aber falls noch jemand spontan ausfällt würde ich mich über ein Ticket echt freuen 🤓
#39c3ticket #39c3
December 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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cedricscherer.com
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝

Google search interest shows a stable pattern:

🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier

#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁

📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
Line chart of Google search interest for “Christmas gift wife” and “Christmas gift husband” from November 18 to December 24. Bold lines show the average pattern across 2020–2024, while lighter shaded lines represent individual years. Shaded areas highlight which term has higher search interest at each point in time. The chart shows that searches for gifts for wives peak later in December than searches for gifts for husbands.
December 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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nassosstylianou.bsky.social
NEW: The power crunch threatening America’s AI ambitions

Big tech is spending hundreds of billions on data centres in the US to fuel the development of artificial intelligence. Our latest visual story explores the main challenge that these grand plans face: access to power.
ig.ft.com/ai-power/
A US map showing hundreds of operating and significantly larger planned data centres clustered along major power lines, with large concentrations in Virginia, Texas and the Midwest. A grid of coloured power icons illustrates that planned US grid upgrades can supply only about 25GW of the electricity needed for new data centres over the next three years, not enough to cover the 44GW of demand, leaving a large gap. Small charts for nine US grid regions show data centre power demand climbing sharply toward 2030 while spare grid capacity remains flat or grows slowly, with the gap between new demand and spare grid capavity growing in key regions like PJM and Ercot in Texas. A stacked area chart shows US data-centre electricity demand rising from around 200TWh in 2025 steeply to more than 600TWh in 2035, with natural gas making up the largest share of expected generation
December 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social
Im Brief von Friedrich Merz an Ursula von der Leyen zum Verbrenner-Aus ist von „hocheffizienten Verbrennern“ die Rede. Auf die Frage, was darunter zu verstehen sei, gab es in der Regierungs-PK heute erst langes Schweigen - und dann diesen bemerkenswerten Satz des Regierungssprechers: (1/2)
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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cendt.de
Scheitert an diesen Kurven die Koalition?
@schieritz.bsky.social und ich mit einem Deep Dive zum Rentenstreit.
www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Questionable Rmd-rendering after installing the latest RStudio version.
November 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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Completely crazy events make for completely crazy headlines.
"Luis Rubiales pelted with eggs by Luis Rubiales at the presentation of a book about Luis Rubiales."

www.11freunde.de/internationa....
Luis Rubiales von Luis Rubiales mit Eiern attackiert – bei Vorstellung von Luis-Rubiales-Buch
Ja, das ist gestern in Spanien exakt so passiert. Was wir über den Vorfall wissen und was nicht.
www.11freunde.de
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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driven-by-data.net
I think this is pure charting gold from WaPo (credits to Szu Yu Chen, @emmakumer.bsky.social and @jeremybmerrill.com) www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Line chart showing how the share of em dash uses in ChatGPT responses has increased from single-digit percentages in 2024 to almost 80% in July 2025. The chart cleverly used a dashed line resembling em dashes Bar chart showing the most frequently used emojis in ChatGPT messages in 2025. The emojis are shown sitting on top of each bar. The winners are the brain emoji (26%) and the checkmark emoji (>30%)
November 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
patrickstotz.bsky.social
How much more expensive breakfast has become in Germany due to inflation. Our inflation explainer starts with this playful little tool. #dataviz #ddj

www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/s...
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
patrickstotz.bsky.social
What would happen if the Amazon rainforest collapsed?
Our look at deforestation and feedback loops.

Also, the perfect occasion to make use of our new MapLibre/Protomaps scroller component.
#maps #dataviz #ddj

www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
November 12, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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larskoppers.bsky.social
Wer sich über die Zukunft des Journalismus Gedanken machen möchte, dem seien unsere aktuellen Stellenausschreibungen ans Herz gelegt.
sciencemediacenter.de Science Media Center Germany @sciencemediacenter.de · Nov 11
Werden Sie Teil unseres Lab-Teams!
Für das Projekt „LLM-basierte Filter für den Wissenschaftsjournalismus“ suchen wir:

· Product Owner:in für KI-Anwendungen
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www.sciencemediacenter.de/das-smc/stel...
Stellenangebote | Science Media Center Germany
Gestalten Sie mit uns die Zukunft des Wissenschaftsjournalismus! Wir suchen kreative Köpfe für spannende Aufgaben im Science Media Center Germany.
www.sciencemediacenter.de
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social
Auch Carsten Schneider verbreitet im Bericht aus Berlin die Falschinformation, dass Wärmepumpen mit 12 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr gefördert werden.

Dabei sind es in Wirklichkeit eher 3 Milliarden Euro. (1/3)

www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
Bundesumweltminister: Heizungstausch wird weiterhin gefördert
Klimafreundliche Heizungen sollen laut Umweltminister Schneider weiterhin gefördert werden. Das Gebäudeenergiegesetz werde "im Grundsatz" so bleiben, sagte der SPD-Politiker im Bericht aus Berlin. Im ...
www.tagesschau.de
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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michlalbrt.bsky.social
Dass die Regierung Gaskunden mit 3,4 Milliarden Euro pro Jahr subventionieren will, ist in Zeiten der Klimakrise ein Skandal. Aber dass dies mit Geldern geschehen soll, die zur Finanzierung der Energiewende und des Klimaschutzes vorgesehen sind, schlägt dem Fass den Boden aus.
Gasspeicherumlage: Bundestag beschließt Entlastung für Gasverbraucher
Haushalte und Unternehmen müssen ab 2026 keine Gasspeicherumlage mehr zahlen. Der Bund finanziert die jährlichen Kosten künftig aus dem Klima- und Transformationsfonds.
www.zeit.de
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Today, we asked our readers to place themselves on a scale from hopeful (Hoffnung) to fearful (Angst) when it comes to climate change.
I know, not representative sample and everything, but this is more devastating than expected.
November 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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alisonkilling.bsky.social
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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cira-csu.bsky.social
A look at the devastating power loss across Jamaica following the historic crossing of Hurricane Melissa, captured by NOAA-21.
October 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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maartenzam.bsky.social
Very sad data journalist job posting
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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claasgefroi.bsky.social
In einer schonungslosen Investigativrecherche findet der Ex-Bild-Chef heraus: Migranten zerstören das deutsche Bäckerhandwerk weil sie kein Grau- und Vollkornbrot essen und Restaurants mit deutscher Speisekarte, weil sie keinen Saumagen essen wollen. Und Karstadt haben sie irgendwie auch getötet.
Tweet von Kai Diekmann: Zur #Stadtbild-Debatte: Im Zusammenhang mit meiner Lese-Reise („Ich war Bild“📕) war ich in sehr vielen Orten, in denen ich vorher noch niemals war - Altötting, Recklinghausen, Rastatt und viele mehr. Immer wieder der gleiche Eindruck: Lokale Bäckereien dauerhaft geschlossen, in den wenigen Restaurants mit deutscher Speisekarte ab 20 Uhr keine Küche mehr - dafür jede Menge Döner-Läden und Shisha-Shops mit Schaufensterfronten wie früher Karstadt. Just saying…
October 17, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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jakubnowosad.com
New R package: gridmappr by Roger Beecham

It automates creating small multiple gridmap layouts by optimally placing geographic points into grid cells (inspired by Jo Wood’s Observable notebooks).

👉 github.com/rogerbeecham...

#RStats #RSpatial #DataViz #GISchat
October 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM