Amber Thomas
@amberthomas.bsky.social
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Data Viz Engineer at USAFacts. Big fan of using data, visualization, and storytelling to make info simpler and more accessible. Opinions are my own.
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amberthomas.bsky.social
This may be similar to what youre trying to do: pudding.cool/2021/10/lenna/ Looks like the source isn’t *just* scientific publications, but it does look like Google Scholar was one place where data was collected
Can Data Die? Tracking the Lenna Image
Why one of the Internet’s oldest images lives on without its subject’s consent
pudding.cool
amberthomas.bsky.social
This is very fun! The letters filling the space beneath the line really makes the viz more impactful
A line chart showing the annual number of babies born named “Amber” between the 1960s and present. The line starts low, peaks in the late 80s - early 90s, and then drops again. 

Beneath the line is the word “Amber” where each letter’s height is scaled to match the height of the line.
amberthomas.bsky.social
I hadn’t seen the style guide site yet — I love it!
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amycesal.com
You probably know me as the person who made charts out of play doh: www.amycesal.com/portfolio#/d...

Or as a co-founder of @datavizsociety.bsky.social

I want you to know me as a person who can help you build a data viz style guide: www.datavizstyleguide.com
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wattenberg.bsky.social
The Gini coefficient is the standard way to measure inequality, but what does it mean, concretely? I made a little visualization to build intuition:
www.bewitched.com/demo/gini
Many circles of different sizes, representing a visualization of inequality
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mitchellthorson.com
Interested in how the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social 📊 data viz team builds interactive data tools? The @svelte.dev code powering this recent piece is open source and available on Github: github.com/UrbanInstitu...
amberthomas.bsky.social
This 2018 piece about how minuscule pockets are in women’s jeans is definitely my claim to dataviz fame ✨ pudding.cool/2018/08/pock...

It was so much fun to build this one with @jadiehm.bsky.social and I love how much people still enjoy it 🥰
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amylhampton.bsky.social
Alexa (@alexaheinrich.bsky.social) has created one of the best resources on digital media accessibility that I've seen. Anyone working in digital media creation should add this to their working library.
a11yawareness.bsky.social
Alexa Heinrich's Accessible Social is a free resource for digital marketers, communication professionals, content creators, everyday social media users, and anyone who wants to learn how to make their content accessible for people with disabilities.
www.accessible-social.com
Accessible Social
Accessible Social is a free resource and education hub that helps marketers and content creators learn about accessibility and how it relates to social media.
www.accessible-social.com
amberthomas.bsky.social
The ghosty trails here are so good! The way the far right of the line whips so much more than the far left? Totally fascinating
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alv9n.com
A list of data/graphics journalists. Since I first started this on the other site, there are SO many more people who do this work.
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chezvoila.com
Here you go. 🫡

Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊

go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy
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infowetrust.com
"a free, open source, and constantly expanding library of knowledge of anything related to information design and visualization (not just data visualization) that I’ll curate. All videos, writings, or any other resource we put online will be freely accessible to and downloadable by anyone."
albertocairo.com
New in the newsletter / Nuevo en la newsletter:

English: The Open Visualization Academy is coming in 2025
theartofinsight.substack.com/p/the-open-v...

Español: La Open Visualization Academy llegará en 2025
albertocairo.substack.com/p/la-open-vi...

#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism
The Open Visualization Academy is coming in 2025
My next big project is finally taking shape
theartofinsight.substack.com
amberthomas.bsky.social
Love the examples here! The steps are particularly nice.

My team has been building these types of charts recently to show YTD totals with historical context on pages where the data updates every month.
A cumulative line chart with the title "About 16% less fentanyl was seized by September 2024 than by September 2023". The chart shows the cumulative amount of fentanyl seized at US borders each year between 2019 and 2023. In 2019 - 2021, annual totals were around between 3 and 10K pounds. In 2022, the annual total was nearly 20K and 2023 the total was around 25K.
amberthomas.bsky.social
Well hello! 👋 So excited you're here!
amberthomas.bsky.social
I've been missing my #dataviz Twitter friends and I hear this is where many of them resettled. Hoping to reconnect! 😊