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Thanks Ed! Brilliant idea 🔥 I could animate the donuts over time to show warming trends. I’ll see how far back open-meteo.com goes. Do you know any other free datasets with long-term city-level climate records?

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · 8d

Exactly! Weird + challenging is where the good stuff happens 😅

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · 8d

Built in the new @observablehq desktop app, using @threejs

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · 8d

So here it is: my dumb data viz experiment. 🍩

✔️ Solves the continuity problem
❌ Harder to spot patterns
❌ Hours are visually distorted

But hey… not everything has to be practical, sometimes it’s just fun! 😅 Also: how cool would it be to create a physical object like this?

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · 8d

I came across those flat climate charts where x = day of year & y = hour of day. They’re neat, but the "cut" at January & midnight always felt arbitrary. 🤔
So I thought… what if we used a torus? The perfect loop for time & seasons!

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · 8d

🍩 What if climate looked like a donut? 🌍
Here’s a bunch of cities turned into a sweet dataviz experiment.

🟡 → comfy zone
🔴 → hot
🔵 → cold

Why a donut? Let me explain 👇

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Reposted by Karim Douieb

WEDODATA @wedodata.bsky.social · Jul 28

Des cartes inspirantes ! Voici des cartes qui utilisent la métaphore du vent pour illustrer la dynamique électorale entre deux dates. La direction et la couleur montrent le changement du vote sur une période donnée, la longueur du trait son intensité.
#dataviz #data #cartographie #map #carte

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Jun 17

📈 Can Belgium reach 80% employment by 2030?

We created an interactive visual storytelling piece showing how age, gender, and location shape job opportunities.

Take a look 👉 itinera-emploi80.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com?lang=en

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · May 21

Pretty cool indeed 😉

Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Feb 24

Fil's maps don’t just show places, they tell powerful stories. Always inspiring to see his work and grateful for his contribution to the community. Give him a follow and read his interview:

Fil @fil.rezo.net · Feb 24

AMA about my love of maps
observablehq.com/blog/maps-an...

thanks @allisonhorst.bsky.social for the cosy chat

We can always talk about maps

Fil Rivière, Data Visualization Engineer at Observable, describes his path into data visualization, what he likes in a map, what’s hard about mapmaking, and why he’s asking if we need a “slow cartogra...

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Feb 23

Thanks for the addition 🙏

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Feb 7

Thanks for this idea! They do have some graphical skills, so this could be a great way to quickly create an original design based on data and then explore their own ways to physicalize it using a variety of materials.

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Feb 7

Hey #dataviz folks! I’m looking for fun, hands-on workshop ideas to introduce art students (no coding skills) to data visualization. Any favorite exercises that blend creativity & data in an engaging way? Open to all suggestions! 🎨📊

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Feb 6

Another fantastic roundup of datavis! Thrilled to see my wild creations making an appearance! 👀

Datawrapper @datawrapper.de · Feb 4

A tragic plane crash, a turnaround for Barnes & Noble, and political drama in Germany — find these and more covered in our Data Vis Dispatch this week 📈

➡️ https://blog.datawrapper.de/data-vis-dispatch-february-4-2025/

A map showing flight paths combined with a chart showing the altitude data of a plane and a helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport before a collision. On the map, a red line represents flight 5342 and a purple line represents a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. The altitude chart on the left shows the Black Hawk descending rapidly before the crash. It was flying above 300 feet, despite military flight restrictions near the airport requiring altitudes below 200 feet. The visualization includes illustrations of both aircraft. Published in the Wall Street Journal.

A diagram representing the most popular types of meat in Japan through a composite image of a fish, chicken, pig and cow. The "animal" is divided into four vertical sections whose size corresponds to the percentage consumed in Japan. The largest section with 44% shows a fish head, the smallest section with 10% shows the tail of a cow. Published by Karim Douieb on Bluesky.

A bar chart showing the number of Barnes & Noble bookstore openings from 2020 to 2025. The openings increase steadily from 3 in 2020 to 60 in 2025. Each bar is made up of stacked book spines. Published by Axios.

A map of the Arctic Ocean and surrounding countries showing the density of maritime traffic in 2024.The highest density is between the coasts of the Scandinavian countries and Iceland. In the Baltic Sea itself not too much traffic is recorded, especially in Canada's Northwest Passage is less travel compared to 2014. Greenland's half of the North Atlantic is somewhat busy. Published in the Wall Street Journal.

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Feb 4

merci!

Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Feb 4

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Feb 2

I tried using AI to make these hybrid animals look more realistic… and failed spectacularly. 🤦‍♂️

It kept messing up the proportions, swapping animal parts randomly, or just refusing to follow the sequence. Maybe I just suck at prompting? 😅

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Karim Douieb @karimdouieb.bsky.social · Feb 2

I recently revisited @ourworldindata.org after learning that @maxroser.bsky.social received honorary doctorates from KU Leuven & UC Louvain for his work in making global trends more accessible (Congrats for that!). This viz by @hannahritchie.bsky.social caught my eye—and inspired my own take on it!

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