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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

wapo.st/4obueib

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.

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Jason Forrest @jasonforrest.bsky.social · 1d

Huge news: @datavandals.bsky.social have opened a new year-long exhibition "LA on the Move" now on view at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles! Discover how people and wildlife all move through LA and how we can support the ecosystem together. /1. datavandals.com/la-on-the-move

LA on the Move — Data Vandals

We turn data into captivating art in cities, galleries, museums, and parks. Our work sparks conversations that encourage people to see and engage with their world in new ways.

datavandals.com

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 3d

Some nic(h)e reviews on Etsy
3dartmaps.etsy.com/listing/4300...

Five star review for my 3D-printed John Snow map on Etsy: "For the medical data scientist who has everything."

Five-star review for my 3D-printed John Snow map on Etsy: "Perhaps there is but a small niche that would appreciate an artisanal version of an historic data visualization, but I'm right in the middle of it. Saw a video where the last step before framing is to snip the handle from the pump - chefs kiss perfection. My absolute favorite rendition of this classic. Bravo."

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Darren Macey @darrenmacey.bsky.social · 3d

Are you a student in #Scotland?

You could enter our infographic competition & win a lovely bundle of books related to maths, stats, biology & fiction by Scottish authors.
Closing date 10th October at midnight. Enter here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share! #MathsWeekScot

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Rob Suddaby @robsuddaby.bsky.social · 5d

⚽️ We’re looking for Football Performance Analysts to join the team - Spanish speaking ⚽️

👉 Apply here - lnkd.in/g-nCkW24

Football Performance Analyst

Job Opening: Football Performance Analyst at FIFA in Remote.

lnkd.in

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 6d

NEW POST: I’m thrilled to see a visualisation I created has been included in a new graphics book by Nigel Holmes, titled ‘Let’s Get Infografit: A Graphic Look at Exercise and Health‘.

visualisingdata.com/2025/10/visu...

Visualisation work included in new book by Nigel Holmes - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere

I'm thrilled to see a visualisation I created included in a new graphics book by Nigel Holmes titled 'Let's Get Infografit: A Graphic Look at Exercise and Health'

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 6d

Here's where you'll find Nigel's book www.routledge.com/Lets-Get-Inf...

Let’s Get Infografit: A Graphic Look at Exercise and Health

What do belly dancing, pickleball, mountain biking, metabolism, the food pyramid, yoga, the Greek Olympiad, Charles Atlas, broccoli, and tongue twisters have in common? Answer: they are all explained ...

www.routledge.com

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 6d

In this post I offer some background to the piece I contributed, what its about and include some views of the graphic up close.

A photo of the graphic in the book, left side view

A photo of the graphic in the book, right side view

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 6d

NEW POST: I’m thrilled to see a visualisation I created has been included in a new graphics book by Nigel Holmes, titled ‘Let’s Get Infografit: A Graphic Look at Exercise and Health‘.

visualisingdata.com/2025/10/visu...

Visualisation work included in new book by Nigel Holmes - Data Viz Excellence, Everywhere

I'm thrilled to see a visualisation I created included in a new graphics book by Nigel Holmes titled 'Let's Get Infografit: A Graphic Look at Exercise and Health'

visualisingdata.com

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wisevis @wisevis.com · 6d

[________] files for bankruptcy after a spreadsheet error in a report.

Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 6d

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an Al model's ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result

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Gareth Maddieson @oldmaddgaz75.bsky.social · 7d

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 7d

I would have expected more posting from the #dataviz community about the 40 years of Excel (today). It was and remains a foundational tool. (test of time IIB award perhaps?)

This list of practical tips looks amazing. All from practitioners.

techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelbl...

Excel Turns 40: Join the Celebration! | Microsoft Community Hub

This year marks a major milestone—Microsoft Excel turns 40! In honor of four decades of innovation, we’re kicking off “40 Days of Excel”, a global community...

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 7d

And it’s out now hitting inboxes (yes, I appreciate I nearly missed the September deadline).

Non-subscribers, hold on for just two weeks and then it’ll be made public.

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 8d

Thanks Jacque!

Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 8d

The newsletter will be back up and running later today, with a new issue compiling the best dataviz related things I saw during July-August.

With non-work life now a little more settled, from next month I'll be able to revert back to my monthly-issue rhythm.

visualisingdata.com/newsletter/

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 9d

1) Subscribed calendars for football fixtures sneaking in unwelcome advert appointments for contests and sales
2) Mail app ignoring my “ignore follow ups” setting
3) WhatsApp’s ‘swipe up to talk’

Just three of tech’s lesser important but very annoying features/practices bothering me this morning.

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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 16d

So I'm a chronic text-based journalism poster who used to live their life on Twitter and had somehow got a large number of followers next to my name. Helpful for work, lots of stories, I could make news go viral. Anyway as I test I slightly re-engaged with various platforms this week. Vibes results:

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 14d

Off the Charts, The Economist's weekly data-journalism newsletter, is now on Substack! It's free to subscribe and you'll receive a steady supply of tips, tricks and behind-the-scenes tales from our award-winning data team 🧵
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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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 15d

Minutes away from the start of the first of seven courses I’m running for one of my very best clients, OTE Academy in Greece. This one’s on zoom, most of the others will be in Athens.

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Nicholas Rougeux @rougeux.bsky.social · 17d

New: I went on a months-long treasure hunt for 1,200+ books spanning 450+ years to digitize Daniel Updike’s Printing Types from 1922, detailing the history of printing and typography. Made a nifty poster too.

Explore: www.c82.net/printing-types
How it was made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=100

Collage of type specimens with overlaid text saying, Printing Types: Their History, Forms & Use

Screenshot of chapter on French types from 1500 to 1800

Screenshot of a list of illustrations with thumbnails

Poster overlaid on top of a closeup of it

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Jer Thorp @jerthorp.bsky.social · 21d

The autumn online cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials start next week.

Over 100 people have now taken this course. Designers from the NYTimes, Spiegel, Bloomberg and the Washington Post, ornithologists, physicists, composers, actors, typographers, UX researchers, librarians and retirees.

📊🪶🌿🎨

LEARNING | jerthorp

Online courses and wokshops about birds, data and creative coding. Binoculars to Binomials is for coders who are interested in cultivating an observational practice, and for birders who want to dive ...

www.jerthorp.me

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 21d

🚨#datavis Job alert 🚨

Fancy working with us in London as a researcher using @observablehq.com Plot for accessible #datavis?

To support people with language disability in the use of data visualization for everyday decision making.

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/jobs/a...

Details | City St George's, University of London

Details of job vacancy at City St George's,, University of London

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk

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Jason Forrest @jasonforrest.bsky.social · 21d

I'm thrilled to share a *new job posting* for the new MPS Graduate program I'm starting at the School of Visual Art (SVA) in NYC. The Director of Operations will be a partner with me on all aspects of the new program. Apply here:
sva.breezy.hr/p/c84c7addcd...

👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉👉 Please share!

Director of Operations at School of Visual Arts

Job Title: Director of Operations Job Posted: September 9, 2025 Department: MPS Data Visualization & Communication (DV&C) Reports to: Department Chair Schedule: Full-time, M...

sva.breezy.hr

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 23d

Well played Channel 4 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’

Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 23d

In place for my second guest lecture this year with students from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

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