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Charlotte Hadley (she/her)
@charliejhadley.bsky.social
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Data visualisation coach, evangelist and maker (and Founder) @ www.gpcds.com
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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
Guess the tidytuesday creator. There are four creators listed; Ansgar Wolsing, Rodrigo Barreiro. Cara Thompson and Nicola Rennie along with four pie charts showing most common geom usage. The image explains the pie comes from ggplot2wrapped.
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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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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Slop watch
October 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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There could not possible be an AI bubble…
Screenshot when visiting petsai.com that shows a GoDaddy holding page. The page explains the domain can be purchased for $499,999.
October 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Google of the past: A/B tests “41 shades of blue”

Google in the AI era: Captain Kathryn Janeway’s middle name is “Kathryn”
August 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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Sincerely hoping

“I never wrote a picture in my life”

Becomes the next “I don’t sweat”
Screenshot of vanity fair article with the headline “Qrt by Donald Trump sells for thousands” with a photo of Trump signing something in his characteristic red tie with the line drawing of the Empire State Building inset
July 18, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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Just in case you think I'm lying I trashed my whole R installation thinking I was instead going to preview my Quarto blog
July 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Finally happened.

Opened the terminal.

Hit UP.
Hit Enter.

Wait...

WAS THAT `rm` ?!
Screengrab from Homestar runner showing Homestar typing BALETED
July 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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ChatGPT isn’t just robbing us of creativity.

More importantly (and sadly) it’s robbing us of the right-hand side CTRL key.
We will never get that back. It’s lost.
Photo of a laptop keyboard showing a Copilot key in place of the much beloved right-hand CTRL key.
July 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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I raise you my kettle needing to boot up.
July 8, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Literally spluttered coffee at reading “easy-to-swallow” in an article about Queer AI influencers

www.huffpost.com/entry/queer-...
Screenshot of text with the phrase “easy-to-swallow” highlighted. The rest of the text reads - Enter Alex Silver, a self-described "Al gay icon.' " Silver is an absurdly beautiful queer Al influencer who "lives" in Miami and posts about his sexy adventures and his "job" in construction. He's basically every easy-to-swallow gay cliché packed into one extremely ripped package.
June 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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God imagine when media start replacing speechwriter tropes with prompt engineering scenes.

Bastards. Bet they try to make the LLM fuckable somehow.
This is a still from House of Cards showing the Presidential couple’s speechwriter Tom Yates sat cross legged on a sofa in the White House. The ChatGPT logo has been placed over his face, but his characteristic quiff is still visible.
June 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Post irony is dead. We are in the heat death of irony.
Animated GIF of a scene from Idiocracy where people sit around a table talking with the caption “but brawndo’s got what plants crave. It’s got electrolytes”
June 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I can’t believe Price prefers OpenAI’s o3-mini-high to Claude’s 3.5 haiku
Still taken from the American Psyco movie. The live action still shows the protagonist Patt Bateman holding and intently staring at a business card. He is sat at a table with 3 other men. They are all in suits and comparing the business card.
June 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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I’ve lived in the UK all my life.
Don’t have any family in the US.

Have only visited as a tourist.

Not only do I know about the hurricane season… but I can draw from memory a photo of a US president’s doodle on a hurricane forecast chart.
This is a photo of Trump in the Oval Office holding a map of hurricane Dorian’s forecasted path which he’s modified with a sharpie with a political agenda in mind. It’s a famous meme.
June 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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NICE.

nice. nice. nice.
May 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Throw away generated images are ethically equivalent to disposable vapes.

www.theverge.com/24066646/ai-...
Kombucha meme template with the disgusted pose captioned with “GenAI slop that burns the planet” and the interest pose “gif or memes that show personality”
May 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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AI has an intolerable US bias.

This is NOT the Peep Show Honda episode.
Screenshot of Google search results for “peep show Honda episode” which includes this text“The Peep Show episode featuring a prominent Honda scene is "Jeremy Makes It" from Season 2, Episode 3. In this episode, Jeremy makes a fake phone call to a Honda dealership in a bid to appear sophisticated to his friends, while also misinterpreting the situation and trying to appear intimidating. The episode is known for its humorous portrayal of Jeremy's attempts to portray himself as a more important figure.”. Demonstrably false. The Honda episode is the one with Gog!
May 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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I am finally home.
April 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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My dog and Joe Goldberg are the only men in my life
April 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Hey #Quarto friend!

Without trying it... will this document render successfully?

[Answer as a reply]
March 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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GenAI is the designer handbag of tech.
Screenshot of Google's AI Overview for the query "is the plural of graph graph" which responds with "Yes , the plural of "graph" is "graphs"
March 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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How the hell do you turn off Google Doc's stupid permanent popover?

Popover's are supposed to be contextual but this one just loves obscuring my text.
Screenshot of Google Docs showing a popover that is obscuring text
March 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Well, the fun thing about sketching out ideas in Canva before {ggplot2} is it's much faster to realise "no, that's a silly idea"
This is a failed chart designed to show the properties of the Pareto Distribution. The chart is 16:9 ratio split vertically 1:2 with the bottom two thirds a percentile bar chart with 80:20 ratio with gradient fills and the top third split with the reverse ratio with text explaining the Pareto distribution. It doesn't look good.
March 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Don’t say “USB cable”.

Make clear if it’s A or C.
Graphic comparing the USB Type A and USB Type C connectors
March 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM