📊 #OTD 🎂🎂🎂
Happy Minard Day!
Charles Joseph Minard's, b. Mar 27, 1781, his big 245th. #OTD #dataviz
One way to celebrate is to visit @infowetrust.com wonderful
Visual Catalog of the Work of Charles Joseph Minard,
bit.ly/3lOXsbR
Another is my celebration of Minard Day, 2021 ed, bit.ly/49f7k1t
Michael Friendly
Say what you will about Stephen Wolfram and his research programme, but you have to admit that the visualizations are cool. writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/game...
@newyorker.com Thanks for dark mode. Could you fix basic text rendering next?
Nice reminder and visual representation of the limitations of radar charts, by Flourish 📊
Source: flourish.studio/blog/create-...
Jesse Onland
@flowingdata.com ought not to characterize keeping one's money under a mattress as having "favourable odds [of a positive return]". On the contrary, one is virtually certain to lose money, in real terms, by doing this.
flowingdata.com/2026/05/14/m...
A dozen year ago, I was alone at home and decided to treat myself to a beer and a detailed exploration of the famous Minard map. I wrote this blog post, which is still one of the most popular on our website all these years later. 📊
chezvoila.com/blog/minard-...
Jesse Onland
Jesse Onland
How far can you get in 60 minutes? European cities offer vastly larger areas reachable by public transit than US cities of comparable population size. Source: lconwell.github.io/lucasconwell...
Jesse Onland
Stephen Wolfram applies ruliological methods to competition, considering all possibilities in looking for a winning strategy. Does competition lead to complexity or simplicity?
Is looping LLM 📊 output through a prompt asking it to do a better job really better (cheaper? faster?) than just doing a good job oneself? www.goodeyelabs.com/insights/the...
Per Engzell
Jesse Onland
I encoded Tufte's data visualization principles as a quality standard in Truesight, deployed it as an API, and pointed an AI agent at a real dataset. One instruction: keep improving until you pass.
For the Washington Post, Jeremy B. Merrill and Leslie Shapiro visualized users who won and lost money on Polymarket. The odds aren’t great. A lot of users aren’t that good at predicting…
Source: Wikipedia. The map representing the Russian campaign of the French army in 1812 is a true celebrity of the data visualization world, mostly known for its spectacular features. Lines show the n...
📊 #OTD 🎂🎂🎂
Happy Minard Day!
Charles Joseph Minard's, b. Mar 27, 1781, his big 245th. #OTD #dataviz
One way to celebrate is to visit @infowetrust.com wonderful
Visual Catalog of the Work of Charles Joseph Minard,
bit.ly/3lOXsbR
Another is my celebration of Minard Day, 2021 ed, bit.ly/49f7k1t
In this edition of the @posit.co AI Newsletter, we share about new LLM features in RStudio, some vibe checks on the new GPT 5.4 / Qwen3.5 / Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite releases, and an overview of the Anthropic / Pentagon saga.
Read it here: posit.co/blog/2026-03...
📊 AI can do many things, but can it also help you map your friendships? Follow along as Or Misgav walks us through how to use AI to gain further insight into our personal relationships.
nightingaledvs.com/the-tiles-th...
