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Eli Holder
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Raleigh. How might we visualize people, fairly and equitably? Data / dataviz / design / psychology / research geek. He / him. Chaotic good. Follows Fizzlethorpe Bristlebane. Design / research / writing at https://3iap.com.
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Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · Oct 17
Excited to share my new study with Lace Padilla, re: equity impacts of public health dataviz. #ieeevis 📊

The bad news: Conventional disparity charts may actively undermine health + health equity. They push misbeliefs about the people being visualized.

The good news: ...

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A population health bar chart showing disparities in heart disease between social (racial) groups with text: "Can we do better?" The "hunch" for our Must Be A Tuesday study. An alternative design could be "better" than conventional designs for communicating health equity issues, where "better" is 1) offsetting blame and stereotyping and 2) having similar impacts on more typical health communication goals like risk perception, behavioral intent, and policy support. The 8 stimuli we tested, crossing "geo emphasized" vs "conventional bars", heart disease vs liver disease, racial groups vs abstract letter groups.
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If you are in Raleigh or other parts of the state, and you see something you suspect to be an immigration enforcement action, call our hotline at (336) 543-0353
Contact Carolina Migrant Network to report sightings and to get connected with legal support in Charlotte.
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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wisevis.eu
Every time a bar chart is replaced by a dot plot an angel gets their wings. #datavis
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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iansociologo.bsky.social
Excellent article by @hofrench.bsky.social

www.wsj.com/economy/slav...
The Complex Role of Slavery in Building America’s Wealth
It was a crucial factor in the country’s economic takeoff well beyond what’s commonly assumed.
www.wsj.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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ktumulty.bsky.social
My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:
October 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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roycoopernc.bsky.social
A trip to the doctor after an accident shouldn’t cost so much that you can’t pay your rent. We expanded Medicaid so working people can have peace of mind, knowing an illness or injury won’t put them in debt. DC Republicans including my opponent clearly disagree.
October 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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ebonawitz.bsky.social
eh, It wasn't that high up... and 4-year-olds can take it. 😜

But if you're looking for other good moments in the paper... I also recommend reading the acknowledgments closely.
The acknowledgment section of a paper stating that the construction crew at Rutgers drilled a hole in the lab and dumped several pounds of concrete on the stimuli
October 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Turn off your phone’s “advertising ID” to make it harder for location data brokers to track you. (2/4)
October 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.

Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.

Thread 👇
September 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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datavizsociety.bsky.social
📊 The new book Dashboards That Deliver releases today. For authors Andy Cotgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler, this is the culmination of countless hard work.

@emiliaruzicka.bsky.social sat down with the authors to hear about their process.

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Behind the Scenes: Dashboards That Deliver, Nightingale
Andy Cotgreave, Amanda Makulec, Jeffrey Shaffer, and Steve Wexler have a new book coming out on September 23, 2025—Dashboards That Deliver: How to...
nightingaledvs.com
September 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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hooperhooper.bsky.social
Last year I wrote about the NCGOP leaderships multi-decade obsession with erasing LGBT people from UNC’s campus life for @triangleblogblog.bsky.social. Might need to update soon unfortunately. triangleblogblog.com/2024/05/05/t...
The long and eventful history of Tim Moore and Peter Hans’ animosity towards marginalized people - Triangle Blog Blog
A group civics blog covering town council, education, transportation, and recreation in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC.
triangleblogblog.com
September 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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anamariecox.bsky.social
Disney learned nothing from Andor.
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
elibryan.bsky.social
🤩📊 What a cool visual effect! Great composition from @nrennie.bsky.social
nrennie.bsky.social Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · Sep 9
There was lots of data to play with for #TidyTuesday this week where we're looking at the power of different passports! ✈️

I decided to try out the idea of using small multiples and highlighting to untangle a spaghetti chart with lots of lines 📊

#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
Chart showing how rankings of passports have changed over time, split by region with top one in each highlighted. European are ranked high, and UAE has had a dramatic rise.
September 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
elibryan.bsky.social
The Times takes their horse race reporting about as seriously as you should... which is.... not at all. 🏇📊
chezvoila.com Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · Sep 9
I just had to check it for myself: the NYT truly only compressed Mamdani to fit into the mobile version, and none of the others. 📊 #dataviz

No matter the technical explanation, the could and should have been avoided.
September 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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chezvoila.com
Rosling’s insistance on looking beyond averages to see the world as it really is reminds me of the work of @elibryan.bsky.social and Cindy Xiong. 📊

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Top left: line chart of math scores from 1965 to 2015 comparing men and women where men are slightly higher throughout. To right: similar line chart comparing the average income per day of US and Mexico from 1965 to 2015 where US is higher throughout. Now let's look at the same data in a third way. Instead of looking at the averages each year, let's look at the range of math scores, or incomes, in one particular year. Left: area chart of number of individuals with different math scores 2016, separating men and women, who mostly overlap. Right: Number of individuals with different incomes 2016 where Mexico overlaps in the middle with the US. Now we get a sense of all the individuals who were bundled into the average number. Look! There is an almost complete overlap between men and women's math scores. The majority of women have a male math twin: a man with the same math score as they do. When it comes to incomes in Mexico and the United States, the overlap is there but it is only partial. What is clear, though, looking at the data this way is that the two groups of people — men and women, Mexicans and people living in the United States — are not separate at all. They over-lap. There is no gap. Of course, gap stories can reflect reality, In apartheid South Africa,
September 1, 2025 at 11:40 AM
elibryan.bsky.social
Fun sketches → Fun charts! 📊🎉
Pencil sketch of a diverging area chart with annotations Pencil sketch of some kind of jitter plot Pencil sketch of small multiples grid Pencil sketch of growing circle?
September 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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mariannedahl.bsky.social
📊 New dataset and paper alert!
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Below follows a 🧵
August 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
elibryan.bsky.social
Things to do at SIGGRAPH:

✅ Behind-the-scenes FX secrets for Superman!
✅ Never-before-seen Oscar-worthy animation shorts!!
🤔 90 minutes with me... on "woke dataviz," eugenics, public health charts, fighting data demagoguery?!?

A few new slides from my talk...

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photo from SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver. it shows the word SIGGRAPH in big letters on the expo floor. title slide from my talk: “Woke Dataviz for white guys.” It shows a flirty girl, a bodybuilder, a t rex, motorcycles, rockets, and a dork in military fatigues Slide on the rhetoric of the “good jeans” american eagle ad. It says “Genetic superiority is definitely a real thing. Hint: It isn’t.” It shows the eugenicist Karl Pearson looking excited and pointing to Sydney Sweeney. A collage of well-intended, but accidentally sketchy civic dataviz showing social outcome disparities for health, wealth, education, etc.
August 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier on the House floor, with a blanket, pillows and a book
August 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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showmydata.org
Excellent use of shown data in a business report.
elibryan.bsky.social Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · Jul 30
How do people work at work?

Also: How do you get quantile dot plots to play nicely in a dataviz 📊 design system across an 89 page report, with hundreds of different plots, each with varying distributions?

New deep-dive case study on my recent project for Worklytics: 3iap.com/work/worklyt...
Worklytics - Work Analytics Benchmark Report Design and Specialized Data Visualization
Design system, visualization, and automation for the Worklytics Annual Benchmarks Report.
3iap.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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"In Experiment 1 we found that Jitter Plots reduced personal attribution (i.e. blame) by 7.0 points, relative to Bar Charts (p=0.0011)." @elibryan.bsky.social 3iap.com/dispersion-d...
July 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
elibryan.bsky.social
How do people work at work?

Also: How do you get quantile dot plots to play nicely in a dataviz 📊 design system across an 89 page report, with hundreds of different plots, each with varying distributions?

New deep-dive case study on my recent project for Worklytics: 3iap.com/work/worklyt...
Worklytics - Work Analytics Benchmark Report Design and Specialized Data Visualization
Design system, visualization, and automation for the Worklytics Annual Benchmarks Report.
3iap.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
elibryan.bsky.social
Recently gave a talk on boundary-making and dehumanization and the road to fascism. What took me 45 minutes to cover, Josh does in 3...
joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · Jul 26
When you strip away humanity
July 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
elibryan.bsky.social
Roy!
roycoopernc.bsky.social Roy Cooper @roycoopernc.bsky.social · Jul 28
I have thought on it and prayed about it, and I have decided: I am running to be the next U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
July 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
elibryan.bsky.social
Recommend for 📊 folks.

Our job isn't just plotting "true" data, we're also responsible for how people interpret and use our work.

Consequential thinking is something test designers take seriously and @claitusis.bsky.social and Meagan Karvonen's Principle #3 is a great starting point for others.
claitusis.bsky.social Cara Cahalan Laitusis @claitusis.bsky.social · Jul 23
We recognize the impressive advances the universal design community has made to ensure that #universaldesign #UDL requirements permeate laws and design requirements that extend beyond educational assessment. Instead of abandoning these efforts, we reimagine -
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
elibryan.bsky.social
Student growth charts from @damianbetebenner.bsky.social.

I like how seeing them as a pair (left is baseline, right is after intervention) gives an immediate gist sense of changed proportions.

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Growth as an Equity Indicator (Baseline Scenario). The mosaic plot depicts percentages of students demonstrating different levels of growth based upon the growth needed by the student. The widths of the columns represent the current percentage of students in each category (in this figure 50%, 25% and 25% have growth goals of > 1 Year’s Growth, 1 Year’s Growth, and < 1 Year’s Growth, respectively. The heights of the rectangles represent the percentage of students in each row category demonstrating that amount of growth (uniform distribution of growth by prior achievement). This shows proportionate results. Same chart as a "good scenario" This figure shows a good scenario with regard to equity. The growth associated with the students needing the equity boost to catch-up shows a preponderance of students demonstration a least a year’s worth of learning. Decreasing the percentage of students demonstrating less than a year’s worth of learning is key.
June 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM