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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 21h

This is really one of the best charts by @ourworldindata.org 📊

Amazing how much research and work goes into creating a chart like this. And it's such a good insight into society.

What Americans die from and the causes of death the US media reports on.

4 stacked bar charts. showing in short that while heart diseases and cancer constitutes 55% of the causes of death, they receive about 7% of the media coverages. Homicide is under 1% but receives between 42% and 52%. Terrorisme barely registers in the causes of death, but gets between 11% and 18%.

The first stacked bar is causes of death in the US in 2023
Heart diseases 29%
Cancer 26%
Accidents 9.5%
Stroke 6.9%
Lower respiratory diseases (6.2%)
Alzheimer's disease (4.8%)
Diabetes (4.0%)
Kidney failure (2.4%)
Liver disease (2.2%)
Suicide (2.1%)
COVID-19 (2.1%)
Influenza/Pneumonia (1.9%)
Drug overdose (1.8%)
Homicide (<1%)
Terrorism (<0.001%)

Media coverage of these causes of death in 2023 in...
New York Times
Heart disease (2.8%)
Cancer (4.1%)
Accidents (9.7%)
Suicide (3.8%)
COVID-19 (5.3%)
Drug overdose (7.5%)
Homicide (42%)
Terrorism (18%)

Washington Post
Heart disease (2.9%)
Cancer (4.7%)
Accidents (5.9%)
Suicide (3.3%)
COVID-19 (7.9%)
Drug overdose (9.5%)
Homicide (46%)
Terrorism (12%)

Fox News
Heart disease (2.3%)
Cancer (3.8%)
Accidents (6.1%)
Suicide (4.1%)
COVID-19 (6.0%)
Drug overdose (9.8%)
Homicide (52%)
Terrorism (11%)

Note: Based on the share of causes of death in the US and the share of mentions for each of the causes in the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News. All values are normalized to 100%, so the shares are relative to all deaths caused by the 12 most common causes + drug overdoses, homicides and terrorism. These causes account for more than 75% of deaths in the US.
A "media mention" is a published article in one of the outlets which mentions the cause (e.g. "influenza) or related keywords (e.g. "flu") least twice.
Data sources: Media mentions from Media Cloud (2025); deaths data from the US CDC (2025) and Global Terrorism Index.

Fox News

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 9d

2026 internships available in my team at The LEGO Group!

Internships in
Story,
Ideation,
Concept Model Design (ie, building with bricks),
Prototyping (3D printing etc),
Hardware (soldering and weird sensors!)
Physical (springs and spinny things)
Digital (code for doing stuff with bricks)

!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students. We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept…...

!!!* INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY *!!! Hey everyone… great news! please share with your network of budding young students. We have now opened applications for our internships in Story, Ideation, Concept ...

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 20d

Your regular reminder that measles vaccines are the most lifesaving childhood vaccine in the schedule, and save over a million lives globally per year.

ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

Measles vaccines save millions of lives each year

Measles once killed millions every year. Vaccines changed this, preventing disease, long-term immune damage, and deadly outbreaks.

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · Sep 4

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪

From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · Sep 2

🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content.
www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c...
Translating in 🧵.

Chinese writing, with last phrase highlight.
Something like,

第七条互联网应用程序分发平台在应用程序上架或者上线审核时,应当要求互联网应用程序服务提供者说明是否提供人工智能生务。互联网应用程序服务提供者提供人工智能生成合成服务的,互联网应用程序分发平台应当核验其生成合成内容标识相关材料。
第八条服务提供者应当在用户服务协议中明确说明生成合成内容标识的方法、样式等规范内容,并提示用户仔细阅读并理解相关理要求。
第九条用户申请服务提供者提供没有添加显式标识的生成合成内容的,服务提供者可以在通过用户协议明确用户的标识义务和后,提供不含显式标识的生成合成内容,并依法留存提供对象信息等相关日志不少于六个月。
第十条用户使用网络信息内容传播服务发布生成合成内容的,应当主动声明并使用服务提供者提供的标识功能进行标识。
任何组织和个人不得恶意删除、篡改、伪造、隐匿本办法规定的生成合成内容标识,不得为他人实施上述恶意行为提供工具或者得通过不正当标识手段损害他人合法权益。
第十一条服务提供者开展标识活动的,还应当符合相关法律、行政法规、部门规章和强制性国家标准的要求。
第十二条服务提供者在履行算法备案、安全评估等手续时,应当按照本办法提供生成合成内容标识相关材料,并加强标识信息共范打击相关违法犯罪活动提供支持和帮助。
第十三条违反本办法规定的,由网信、电信、公安和广播电视等有关主管部门依据职责,按照有关法律、行政法规、部门规章的处理。
第十四条本办法自2025年9月1日起施行。

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · Aug 20

Finally, someone is saying this out loud!!! “Amazon cloud chief says replacing junior employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard' How's that going to work when you go 10 years in the future & you have no one that has built up/learned anything?"

finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-...

Amazon cloud chief says replacing junior employees with AI is 'one of the dumbest things I've ever heard'

Amazon cloud chief Matt Garman says replacing junior staff with AI is short-sighted, calling it "one of the dumbest things" he's ever heard.

finance.yahoo.com

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · Aug 14

Additionally, with all the companies hiring Senior Software Engineers, I wonder where the next generation of "Senior" software engineers are going to come from. Maybe with AI, we won't need senior software engineers too in a few years 🙄

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · Aug 6

This data-driven story - "How F1 has evolved since 1950" from @espn.com Creative Studio uses horizontal, vertical, and even diagonal scrollytelling. The hand-drawn illustrations & visuals are spectacular! 🤩https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/43832710/how-f1-evolved-1950-where-headed-2026

75 years of innovation: How F1 has evolved since 1950 and where it's headed

To celebrate F1's 75th anniversary, ESPN charts the sport's evolution since 1950 through its most iconic cars, and details where it's headed in 2026.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · Jul 14

This is why I get annoyed when people say AI will help identify struggling college students. In every big lecture I teach, at least one or two students fail because they never show up or turn in any work—despite weekly emails from me and TAs. We don’t need AI. We need more humans to support them.

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · Jun 7

He’s doing great! We met recently for dinner cos he used to be a professor at our university.

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matt brehmer @mattbrehmer.bsky.social · Jun 4

📢 The MERCADO Workshop is back at IEEE VIS 📊 - Nov 2 - 7 in Vienna 🇦🇹!

MERCADO = Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online #ieeevis #datavis #dataviz #hci #cscw #socialVR #ImmersiveAnalytics

👉 Call for Papers: sites.google.com/view/mercado...

⏰ Deadline: Aug 1

MERCADO Meetings - VIS '25 Workshop

Our half-day workshop Multimodal Experiences for Remote Communication Around Data Online (MERCADO) 2025 will take place in November in Vienna at IEEE VIS 2025. An archival version of our IEEE VIS work...

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · May 27

strong cosign dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 22

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation.

This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · May 21

Nice charts!! Interactive tooltips for line charts and horizontal layout for bar charts for better legibility of labels. 👍🏽Thank you for the gift link. 📊

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · May 20

46% of 16 to 21 year olds say they would rather a world without internet, and 70% say they feel worse about themselves after using social media.

It’s long past time governments stepped in to address the consequences of leaving the internet to the private sector.

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds

Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

www.theguardian.com

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · May 13

so many cool accessibility features for your Apple devices were just announced! … accessibility continues to lead in imagining new ways to use your devices, sensors, and machine learning to make the world more accessible

www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Apple unveils powerful accessibility features coming later this year

Apple today announced new accessibility features coming later this year, including Accessibility Nutrition Labels.

www.apple.com

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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · May 3

If you're a grad student or an undergrad interested in research I need to you listen to me very carefully.

You cannot learn to write good research papers if you do not read good research papers.

Stop asking LLMs to summarize papers for you.

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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · Apr 29

Hey RSA... get ready for my keynote on why cyber threats aren't just a national issue — they're personal. Catch it tomorrow at 11:35am, Moscone West.

I take this stuff seriously — because it affects all of us.

#Take9 #RSAC #CyberCivilDefense

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Allison McCartney @mccartney.bsky.social · Apr 24

Come be my neighbor in the SF bureau!

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · Apr 17

As I was working on updating my slides for the "Data-Driven Storytelling" lecture in class, I found a lot of stories that used to be great were offline. Recent work by all of you was inspiring and helpful as I added your new work to my slides. Thanks!

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · Apr 17

While I am disappointed to see classic data-driven stories disappearing due to bit rot, I am thankful to bluesky for being able to see the amazing stories/work of @attilabatorfy.bsky.social, @alexselbyb.bsky.social, @scientificdiscovery.dev, @patrickstotz.bsky.social, @higsch.com, and more!! 🙏

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Aatish Bhatia @aatishb.bsky.social · Apr 13

NEW: We simulated a disease outbreak to show how vaccines can stop the spread of a contagious disease. With @fparis.bsky.social @upshot.nytimes.com (Paywall-free gift link) 🎁

How Much Vaccination Stops a Measles Outbreak? (Gift Article)

An interactive explanation of outbreaks, vaccines and herd immunity.

www.nytimes.com

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Observable @observablehq.com · Apr 8

When used carelessly, animation can distract from data visualizations. Check out these best practices for delivering better animations in data visualizations.

Five ways to effectively use animation in data visualization

Animation can be a distraction in data visualization. Or, when applied effectively, it can enhance user engagement, reveal trends, and help viewers track patterns across metrics. Here are five ways…

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · Apr 4

Thank you, Ilja @fubits.dev for talking to my Data Visualization class today about your amazing work with non-profits and sharing your insights. The projects you shared along with the little tips to make certain transitions work were fantastic! 📊

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Alark Joshi @alark.bsky.social · Mar 25

This version is much better formatted on their website - queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i....

Interactive Dynamics for Visual Analysis - ACM Queue

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