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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 12h

Is it just for managing RSS feeds or does it offer feed discovery?

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Marie Segger @mariesegger.bsky.social · 16h

We have quietly launched Off the Charts, our @economist.com data newsletter, on Substack.

You can subscribe to the newsletter for FREE (paid subscribers also receive access to our newsletter archive & two of our data-driven pieces each week)

theeconomistoffthecharts.substack.com

The Economist: Off the Charts | Substack

The Economist’s data and visual journalists share the tools, techniques and ideas behind their award-winning stories. Click to read The Economist: Off the Charts, a Substack publication.

theeconomistoffthecharts.substack.com

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 19h

Very good!

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 1d

You and @jerthorp.bsky.social can be bird friends 🤝

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 1d

And a funny guy too which is something that comes across in his photography. Have you seen ‘I Am Martin Parr’? I’m going to try and finally watch it at some point this week

I Am Martin Parr - Official UK Trailer

YouTube video by Dogwoof

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re anywhere near Bristol this weekend the annual BOP Festival takes place at his foundation.

bopbristol.org

BOP Bristol

bopbristol.org

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 1d

Met the one and only Martin Parr and he signed his autobiography for me. A nice way to spend a couple of hours after work.

UTTERLY. LAZY AND INATTENTIVE
Martin Parr in Words and Pictures

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 1d

Satellite analysis by Bellingcat found that wildfires destroyed over a third of Namibia’s most visited wildlife reserve last month, impacting crucial grazing lands for endangered species, including black rhinos and elephants. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Wildfires Ravage One of Africa’s Largest Nature Reserves - bellingcat

Satellite analysis of the Etosha wildfires in Namibia has found that more than a third of the nature reserve was burned.

www.bellingcat.com

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 1d

How to get addicted to TikTok - a cautionary tale told in #dataviz

Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 1d

🤳EXCLUSIVE: We analyzed real data from over 800 U.S. TikTok users to reveal how the app transforms casual users into power users.

Extremely proud of this one, over a year in the making w/ @richardsima.bsky.social Leslie Shapiro @asteckelberg.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social

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Here’s how TikTok ‘power users’ end up scrolling 4 hours a day or more

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

wapo.st

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 2d

You get what you pay for, I suppose 🤷

Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 2d

I got the new GPT-5 pro API model to "Generate me an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle". This pelican took 6m8s to generate and cost me $1.10! simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/g...

GPT-5 pro

Here's OpenAI's model documentation for their GPT-5 pro model, released to their API today at their DevDay event. It has similar base characteristics to GPT-5: both share a September 30, …

simonwillison.net

Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 2d

This collection of Cold War #dataviz and maps is worth checking out

Beautiful Public Data @beautifulpublicdata.com · 2d

✨📊 Cold War Military Slides

A reporter stumbled upon a treasure trove of Department of Defense slides from the 1970s and 1980s depicting data from missile systems, Soviet capabilities and America’s nuclear ars…

🔗

https://beautifulpublicdata.com/cold-war-military-slides

Text "MISSION AND ORGANIZATION" is overlaid on a fragmented map with a blue grid and multicolored sections.

A dynamic painting depicting U.S. Air Force and Navy missiles and aircraft in flight against a colorful sky background.

A pie chart from the 323D Flying Training Wing displays FY 1979 graduate assignments, with SAC at 46%, TAC at 36%, MAC at 15%, and other at 3%.

A pie chart from AFSC FY 80 showing the distribution of total funds managed, totaling $17.4 billion, with sections for procurement (43%), RDT&E (25%), foreign military sales (21%), and other (11%).

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 2d

Very clever design!

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 2d

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

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Guillaume Noblet @gnoblet.bsky.social · 2d

#TidyTuesday a week late on Crane Observations at Lake Hornborgasjön, Sweden (1994–2024).

🗓️ Used a heatmap to look at the repeated yearly spring observations
🎷 `ggbranding` to add personal branding github.com/gnoblet/ggbr...
👽 Code: gnoblet.github.io/TidyTuesday/

#rstats #ggplot2 #heatmap #dataviz

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 3d

This morning I learnt that the French Fourth Republic had 21 different administrations in the 12 years between 1946-1958, so is another PM really that bad?

Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 3d

Less than a month after his nomination, the new French PM has already resigned

Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 3d

It does seem that way although I do wonder what implications this will ultimately have for copyright laws

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 4d

I love this video by @casey.nyc explaining AI video slop app Sora for me, a person who has no intention of ever using Sora.

SORA: the all Ai TikTok Clone. will slop end creativity?

YouTube video by CaseyNeistat

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Mark G. Sheppard @markgsheppard.com · 5d

The Green Book Project is a fantastic resource for anyone trying to understand the full weight of the Jim Crow era, and how segregation —not of homes and where Black families could live— but the segregation of everything.
#EconSky #GreenBookProject

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 4d

Show us the last four albums you listened to

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 4d

All praise to @consumerreports.org for this:

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 5d

Kyogo gets it in the back of the net but ruled offside!

#EFL-Live #Footy-Live #BCFC

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 5d

But this scrollytelling magic is just a beautiful way to show survey results 😍

#dataviz

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 5d

I really like how they broke down the visual elements of the signs

#dataviz

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 5d

The team at the Straits Times responsible for this masterpiece of visual storytelling should take a bow 👏

#dataviz

How hawker signboards tell the story of Singapore

The Straits Times analysed over 250 signs across four hawker centres to find out how the look and feel of hawker signs have changed over time

www.straitstimes.com

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 5d

Patrick Roberts getting us a goal away from home at last in Hollywood derby. Maybe Kyogo will come off the bench and score… ok, maybe not.

#EFL-Live #Footy-Live #BCFC

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