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tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 5d

the readings on this look v good, excited to indulge

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tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 5d

this is just 1 day of progress !!!!

tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 5d

1000% recommend going to union sq market in nyc and getting a mushroom growing kit

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tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 5d

there is no ethical mutant praxis under capitalism

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tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 5d

prettiest data viz i’ve ever made for data by design by @laurenfklein.bsky.social 🌸

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tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 8d

grew a strawberry! it was yummy. monstera for scale

tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 15d

alternate posters for a lecture hosted by
@aiainetwork.bsky.social

tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 23d

also see the tega brain x sam lavigne show at pioneer works in brooklyn!

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tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · 23d

❤️❤️❤️

Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 23d

A few days ago, amidst everything else, I pressed send on the book I've been working on (and off) for over a decade. It's still a long way from finished, but the final phase has begun. Watch for DATA BY DESIGN: FROM THE HISTORY OF VISUALIZATION TO THE FUTURE WE NEED in print and online in Fall 2026!

A screenshot of the table of contents, reading:

Preface

Introduction: A History of Visualization and Power

Chapter 1
Data: The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Responsible Visualization Design
Before there are data, there are people. How can the lives behind the data guide our visualization work?

Chapter 2
Image: William Playfair and the Politics of the “Simple View”
Visualization has never been neutral or objective. How can we learn to recognize the human decisions that shape each design?

Chapter 3
People: Shanawdithit and our Place in the Colonial Frame
Maps, like all visualizations, tell stories. How can we learn to see the lines of power that they draw?

Chapter 4
Knowledge: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and the Idea of Epistemology
Visualization can produce knowledge in many ways. What ideas do we gain when we expand our view of the past?

Chapter 5
Change: Lula Iola Mack, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Path to Liberatory Data Visualization
Visualization can bear powerful witness to oppression. How can we use charts to make change in the world?

Chapter 6
Labor: Data by Design and What We Learn from Visualization Work
By Margy Adams and Tanvi Sharma, with Shiyao Li, Jay Varner, and Lauren Klein
Any visualization project is the work of many hands. How can we surface the significance of this labor?

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Notes

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tanvi @chronictanvi.bsky.social · Aug 31

do you have any plans to /ask for/ updates to the tech ethics curriculum spreadsheet? I learnt so much from it and wonder what’s new in what people are assigning.