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Irene De la Torre Arenas

@inari-ta.bsky.social

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Dataviz designer & journalist at the Financial Times Before: BBC News, UCB Biopharma, MIT Senseable City Lab | Northeastern alumni with Becarios Fundación La Caixa | In the past, 🇪🇸 in 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Website: https://irenedelatorrearenas.com

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Irene De la Torre Arenas @inari-ta.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ohhh! 👉 bsky.app/profile/chez...

👋 I am a designer in the Visual Storytelling team at the Financial Times. I love making data visualizations, especially with big data and animations on it (the 🍒 on the 🍰 is if it's a map!).

More stuff here irenedelatorrearenas.wordpress.com (not updated though)

Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · Sep 6

With the influx of dataviz people, let's do some re-intros. 📊

— What's your claim to fame? ✨ —

How might we know you already?
What have you done that we might have seen or read before?
What would help us remember how we came across you?

Don't be shy: it's helping us reconnect and remember you 💡

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Irene De la Torre Arenas @inari-ta.bsky.social · 5d

"A century ago, design was the future. Good design, by which was meant modernist design, would create a world of fewer, better things (...) That social purpose which accompanied the birth of design as a profession quickly dissipated (...) Modernism became marketing."

FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 6d

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world on.ft.com/42Pe3i8 #FTEdit

Why designers abandoned their dreams of changing the world

Design was once seen as a tool to improve lives — but as modernism has become marketing, that sense of social purpose has drifted away

on.ft.com

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · 20d

How will the flower bloom in 2100?

We collaborated with artist Annelie Berner to create a generative web tool that visualizes how the Circaea Alpina flower might evolve in response to future climate conditions.
variable.io/plant-futures/

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Michael Peel @mikepeeljourno.bsky.social · Aug 31

And it’s exciting to be a finalist in the @pressgazette.co.uk ‬Future of Media prize for this robots work driven by the visual brilliance of @upyorkshire.ft.com, @inari-ta.bsky.social, @samlearner.bsky.social, ‪@samjoiner.bsky.social et al.

ig.ft.com/ai-robots/

pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

How AI is powering a robotics revolution

Advances in physical AI mean machines are learning skills previously thought impossible

ig.ft.com

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Irene De la Torre Arenas @inari-ta.bsky.social · Aug 29

Done with this brilliant team: @peter.andringa.me, @okr.bsky.social, Stefania Palma, and Molly Taylor.

👉 ig.ft.com/us-deportati...

The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights

Companies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US

ig.ft.com

Irene De la Torre Arenas @inari-ta.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEW: The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights

ICE plans to 6x its budget for immigrant transportation and deportations, a potential windfall for a few contractors and airlines. The system is already under strain, with serious concerns about detainees’ safety

👉 ig.ft.com/us-deportati...

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Peter Andringa @peter.andringa.me · Aug 28

ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵

The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights

Companies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US

ig.ft.com

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Nassos Stylianou @nassosstylianou.bsky.social · Aug 23

We've built a football game and it's free to play!

Can you run a Premier League club? Step into the boardroom, navigate financial regulations and guide your team to glory in our new game.

👉 ft.com/football-game ⚽️💸

Can you run a Premier League football club?

Step into the boardroom, navigate profit and sustainability rules and guide your club to glory

ft.com

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Irene De la Torre Arenas @inari-ta.bsky.social · Aug 13

I had to close my accounts a while ago and N26 was super easy (it was also in English). DBK was a much harder, I could contact them by email though

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Álvaro Caballero @alvarocaballero.bsky.social · Aug 13

Muchos incendios a la vez en todas partes: por qué está ardiendo España www.rtve.es/n/16694606

Muchos incendios a la vez en todas partes: por qué está ardiendo España

www.rtve.es

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 11

The story behind Spain’s solar power meltdown on.ft.com/3HtJpDp

The story behind Spain’s solar power meltdown

Pedro Sánchez calls his country a ‘global benchmark’ in the transition to greener energy, but prices — and profits — have plunged

on.ft.com

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 11

Israel has killed a prominent Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza and four other employees at the television network in an air strike targeting their tent in the besieged strip. on.ft.com/41vHpBl

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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · Aug 7

My friend Yotam is recruiting participants with low vision for a paid online user study on making data visualizations like graphs and charts more accessible. More details at sechaykyotam.questionpro.com/a/TakeSurvey... #PhdSky #a11y #DataViz

Visualization Accessibility Study Recruitment

sechaykyotam.questionpro.com

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · Aug 9

I didn’t realize there’s a Wikipedia page for the climate spiral. 📊

- Came before (2016) the warming stripes (2018)
- Also from @edhawkins.org
- The idea of a woman, Taran Fæhn
- Featured in opening of 2016 olympics
- Theres a paper to explain its success

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate...

Climate spiral - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Aug 4

Donald Trump’s Super Pac has amassed almost $200mn thanks to a big injection of cash from the crypto industry, giving the president an enormous war chest ahead of the 2026 congressional elections. on.ft.com/4m08Qf1

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Sam Joiner @samjoiner.bsky.social · Jul 31

New: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity.

The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom, with hyperscalers clustering thousands of chips to train AI models. But critics question the environmental impact, soaring costs and whether it's all needed.

👉 ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · Jul 30

On Monday Awdah Hathleen, one of the Palestinian activists behind the Oscar-winning film No Other Land was killed by a settler who has been harassing Hathleen's village, Um al Khair, for months. Read our visual investigation into West Bank settlers here: ig.ft.com/west-bank/

How extremist settlers in the West Bank became the law

Mobilisation of violent settlers has intensified Palestinians’ fears of attacks and displacement

ig.ft.com

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Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · Jul 30

NEW: Heavily armed gangs control 95% of Haiti's capital and are expanding their campaign of murder, rape and extortion across the country. Better armed than the Haitian police, it is weapons smuggled from the US than have enabled their dominance. We tracked how Haitian gangs get their guns.

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Eva Belmonte @belmonte.bsky.social · Jul 16

Maravilla. En 2013, ¡la virgen!, hablábamos en este artículo de la historia del despacho de Montoro. No es solo que le cambiaran el nombre para disimular cuando se fue a Moncloa, es que se quedó su hermano a cargo: civio.es/poder/2013/1...

Fragmento del artículo enlazado, donde se puede leer:

"Dos años después, emprendieron una carrera profesional juntos fundando la asesoría Montoro y Asociados, que el ahora ministro abandonó en 2008 para volver a la primera línea política. A partir de entonces la empresa cambió de nombre para evitar vinculaciones y pasó a denominarse Equipo Económico. Ricardo Martínez Rico se quedó al mando junto a Ricardo Montoro, hermano de Cristóbal. En paralelo, ejerce de consejero en Abengoa, una de las empresas más importantes en el campo de las energías renovables."

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Civio @civio.es · Jul 22

‼️ No deberíamos celebrar la llegada de datos de 2017, pero con los incendios forestales es otra historia.

La recogida oficial de datos no mejora. Se estanca.

En la base del @miteco.gob.es, los últimos datos completos para toda España... son de 2017. Sí, 2017.

Civio @civio.es · Jul 22

📊 ¿Estamos celebrando datos de 2017 en pleno 2025? Pues… sí. Y ese es parte del problema.

La recogida oficial de datos sobre incendios forestales no avanza, se estanca.
• 2018: faltan los datos de La Rioja.
• 2019: sin Baleares ni Jaén.
• 2020 en adelante: el desplome.
• 2023: solo Murcia y Soria.

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ADRI 👨🏻‍💻 @adrimaqueda.com · Jul 22

‼️ Actualizamos el mapa de España en llamas

🔥 Ya hay más de 237.000 incendios forestales que se pueden consultar en el mapa

🗓️ El último año consolidado para datos en toda España solo aumenta hasta 2017, pero hay datos parciales hasta 2023

civio.es/medio-ambien...

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Irene De la Torre Arenas @inari-ta.bsky.social · Jul 18

Done with this brillian team @upyorkshire.ft.com, @nassosstylianou.bsky.social,
@janatausch.bsky.social, @samlearner.bsky.social, Dan Clark, @samjoiner.bsky.social and @gakuito.bsky.social

👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry

The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment

ig.ft.com

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Irene De la Torre Arenas @inari-ta.bsky.social · Jul 18

NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION: Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry

Our analysis has identified a number of facilities housing hundreds more people than they are designed to hold. Lawyers and detainees told the FT people have been sleeping on the floor.

👉 ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 17

The 'significant shift' was led by a drop in Syrians seeking protection in the bloc after the fall of the Assad regime, according to an unpublished report seen by the FT. https://on.ft.com/4f35hlG

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Civio @civio.es · Jul 17

Tu cara será tu nueva tarjeta sanitaria 👨🏻👩🏽👨🏼👩🏻👨🏿
Sanidad ya instala una IA calificada con un riesgo inicial “muy alto” para fichar pacientes, activada sin conocimiento de los sanitarios, que apunta a facilitar el cobro a inmigrantes y genera dudas sobre la protección de datos.
🔍 Lo hemos investigado:

Sanidad incorpora reconocimiento facial con IA para fichar a 170.000 pacientes de Ceuta y Melilla

El sistema del INGESA está calificado con un riesgo inicial “muy alto”. Según fuentes consultadas por Civio, el análisis sobre cómo afectará a la protección de datos es “insuficiente e incoherente” y…

civio.es

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Sam Learner @samlearner.bsky.social · Jul 16

NEW: inside America's immigration detention industry, where lawyers and detainees describe overcrowding and deteriorating conditions

Our visual investigation: ig.ft.com/us-immigrati...

Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry

The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment

ig.ft.com

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