Michiel Duvekot
@duvekot.bsky.social
#kakistographs
from Ancient Greek κάκιστος (kákistos, 'worst')
from Ancient Greek κάκιστος (kákistos, 'worst')
I love OWID and that they give you the datasets with their charts is just so absolutely the-right-thing to do. And yeah, that also means anyone can quickly remake any chart they publish.
December 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I love OWID and that they give you the datasets with their charts is just so absolutely the-right-thing to do. And yeah, that also means anyone can quickly remake any chart they publish.
I find small multiples a bit easier to interpret:
December 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I find small multiples a bit easier to interpret:
My eyes! The color #ff00fe should be restricted to things that need to be removed prior to publication. Designers, please calibrate your monitors? Or turn off Night Shift when you're working? Tx,
December 8, 2025 at 6:57 PM
My eyes! The color #ff00fe should be restricted to things that need to be removed prior to publication. Designers, please calibrate your monitors? Or turn off Night Shift when you're working? Tx,
"ein platter, geistloser, ekelhaft-widerlicher, unwissender Scharlatan, der, mit beispiellosen Frechheit, Aberwitz und Unsinn zusammenschmierte, welche von seinen Anhängern als Weisheit ausposaunt und von Dummköpfen richtig dafür genommen wurde"
December 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
"ein platter, geistloser, ekelhaft-widerlicher, unwissender Scharlatan, der, mit beispiellosen Frechheit, Aberwitz und Unsinn zusammenschmierte, welche von seinen Anhängern als Weisheit ausposaunt und von Dummköpfen richtig dafür genommen wurde"
A fresh layer of snow dampens sounds. For people who find the world too loud, that can be wonderful.
December 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A fresh layer of snow dampens sounds. For people who find the world too loud, that can be wonderful.
I mean that you must always measure the same thing, so you cannot have state-of-the-art benchmarks, you must use consistent benchmarks.
November 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I mean that you must always measure the same thing, so you cannot have state-of-the-art benchmarks, you must use consistent benchmarks.
Except that "metrics such as accuracy and speed, compared to state-of-the-art benchmarks" are not stable over time, so fair comparisons are not possible.
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Except that "metrics such as accuracy and speed, compared to state-of-the-art benchmarks" are not stable over time, so fair comparisons are not possible.
Lib Dems are really bad at making charts though.
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Lib Dems are really bad at making charts though.
The printing press would never taken off it it hadn't been for the introduction of paper in Europe, a few centuries earlier. But nobody ever says "Paper democratized knowledge."
November 15, 2025 at 8:24 PM
The printing press would never taken off it it hadn't been for the introduction of paper in Europe, a few centuries earlier. But nobody ever says "Paper democratized knowledge."
There was never any need to translate the term. The word is the same in French and English. Grain, as Bertin used it, referred to the variable roughness of paper that results in varying levels of light/dark. We still still call that paper grain.
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
There was never any need to translate the term. The word is the same in French and English. Grain, as Bertin used it, referred to the variable roughness of paper that results in varying levels of light/dark. We still still call that paper grain.
Interesting. I think that perhaps in relation to agentic AI we (people) are not so much the tool as we are a Bestand, a resource to be extracted and processed by an un-Ding that acts upon the world without existing in it.
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Interesting. I think that perhaps in relation to agentic AI we (people) are not so much the tool as we are a Bestand, a resource to be extracted and processed by an un-Ding that acts upon the world without existing in it.
The Dutch anthem doesn't start with "A". It is an acrostic: the first words of the first six stanzas are "Wilhelmus", "In", "Lijdt" "Lijf", "Edel" and "Mijn": WILLEM
October 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The Dutch anthem doesn't start with "A". It is an acrostic: the first words of the first six stanzas are "Wilhelmus", "In", "Lijdt" "Lijf", "Edel" and "Mijn": WILLEM
fixed it for you
September 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
fixed it for you
If you thought that was bad, I'll give you this beauty from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons' 2024 report on cosmetic surgery trends that the WSJ cites:
September 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
If you thought that was bad, I'll give you this beauty from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons' 2024 report on cosmetic surgery trends that the WSJ cites:
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines
September 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Betteridge’s Law of Headlines
Deontic vs epistemic modalities?
September 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Deontic vs epistemic modalities?
You’re welcome, but wouldn’t you want a better version?
September 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
You’re welcome, but wouldn’t you want a better version?
The patterns are easier to see in a small multiple
September 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The patterns are easier to see in a small multiple
I read the second largest first. The largest is too big and somehow falls apart. It only works if I zoom out so much that the smallest text becomes illegible.
September 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I read the second largest first. The largest is too big and somehow falls apart. It only works if I zoom out so much that the smallest text becomes illegible.