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maarten, 17 days ago to random

I have a weak spot for flowers visible from space. Here are some recent ones I found:

Purple jacaranda trees in Pretoria, South Africa

Pink tajibo trees in eastern Bolivia

Tulips (and probably other flowers too) near Hillegom, The Netherlands

PlanetScope image of flowering pink tajibo trees near Roboré, Bolivia
Planet SkySat image of flowering tulip fields near Hillegom, The Netherlands

kristinHenry, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago) to random

Hey vis.social!

Starting tomorrow, April 25th, @darth_mall will be helping out our moderation team as Admin.

I go in for surgery tomorrow, and expect to be in the hospital recovering for an additional 3-5 days.

If all goes as expected, I will be fully recovered in a month. But I'll be back online before then. :)

Editing to add: yep, it's Cancer. But hopefully, this surgery will take care of it.

#visSocialTips

terence, 1 month ago to random

Bathymetry of the Gulf of México.

#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

geomob, 2 months ago to random

As mentioned briefly in this week's podcast (Ep. 222), London Data Week is again taking place this year during the first week of July.

We're happy to now confirm a Geomob London on the eve of 🗓️ Wed. July 3rd will be one of the events. Thank you Geovation for again hosting us 🙏

Sign-up is now open https://thegeomob.com/post/july-3rd-2024-geomoblon-details

First speaker confirmed, more volunteers needed.

https://www.londondataweek.org

#geomobLON

kristinHenry, 2 months ago to random

The wave we're dealing with right now seems to be mentioning folks on our instance.

Please report, and we will work as fast as we can.

vicgrinberg, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to cooking

So many recipes, so little time to try them all...

Sometimes I really wish I were less excited about food or at least would pick one certain cuisine to love. It would trying to plan my food for the next week a lot less painful and long 😩

#AboutToday #cooking #CookbookCollection

andykirk, 3 months ago to random

Final mention. Yesterday I shared a post reflecting on my intentions for using different web and social platforms, especially given the demise of Twitter as the once reliable dataviz hub. I've broken down how I will be 'active' on each (ps. active ≠ prolific!)

https://visualisingdata.com/2024/01/posting-following-and-social-media-intentions/

mikebrondbjerg, 4 months ago to svelte

I think it's time to update my portfolio site after 5 years of neglect.. going to use #svelte / #sveltekit as a bit of a learning exercise. Any recommendations for a simple clean customisable "portfolio" starter template/repo? I'd also like to add an experiments/sketches section too. Thx!

underdarkGIS, 4 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Vienna

This year, I've traveled to NL 🇳🇱 by #NightJet 🚆 twice: once to #DenBosch for the #QGIS Contributor Meeting and once to the EMERALDS project meeting in #Delft. While it may take a little longer than flying from #Vienna, it's perfectly reasonable and the night connection is so much better than the options during the day.

#EMERALDSeu

maarten, 5 months ago to svelte

A little #Svelte geocoder app, using Openstreetmap's Nominatim API https://svelte.dev/repl/9b841daa8d10429d85c9d1fdba1f8daf?version=4.2.8

maarten, 5 months ago to random

Gaza After Nine Weeks of War https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/12/world/middleeast/gaza-strip-satellite-images-israel-invasion.html

The New York Times uses video and Planet satellite imagery to show the incredible scale of the destruction in #Gaza
#SatelliteJournalism

maarten, 5 months ago to random

Built a little tool to make and download locator globe maps

Framework: Svelte https://svelte.dev/
Data: Natural Earth (with some modifications) https://www.naturalearthdata.com/
Mapping: d3-geo https://d3js.org/d3-geo
Globe dragging: d3-drag https://d3js.org/d3-drag and versor https://github.com/d3/versor
Downloading: svg-crowbar https://svg-crowbar.js.org/

Thanks to all creators and contributors to these amazing tools!

#Cartography #Mapping #DataVisualization

ZLabe, 5 months ago to random

Looking back over the last 6 months, all latitude bands observed above average temperatures. The largest anomalies were in the Northern Hemisphere.

Latitude = x-axis (not scaled by distance). Data from https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

janeadams, 5 months ago to markdown

So, I'm redesigning my portfolio #website from scratch (moving away from Wordpress CMS), and I'd like to know others' opinions:

I was thinking it would be nice to retain some human readability in post authoring by using #markdown, so I got a #react markdown pipeline working (each project page dynamically renders its respective .md). But I'm in #dataVisualization, so for some project pages I want to embed #html. No prob. markdown supports iframes, right? Not quite... (1/3)

#frontend #webdev

masukomi, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

You know how, when you think of an elephant herd it's like 10-15(ish) elephants?

[edited] This is a group of elephants traveling because of drought in the 1970's. It’s unclear if it is massive heard, or a mini herds that ended up in the same place, but it’s safe to say you’ll never see these numbers in one place again.

maarten, 6 months ago to random

The EU Data Visualisation Guide was published last month

https://data.europa.eu/apps/data-visualisation-guide/

I wrote all the content for it, and I built the interactive publication in @sveltejs. It has 7 chapters and contains a ton of examples. You can search it for a topic, or use it as a guided course and browse from page to page. It basically condenses all I learned about data visualization in the past decade

maarten, 6 months ago to random

I have very ambivalent feelings about data visualization awards. But having said that... It feels good when your work wins an #InformationIsBeautiful gold, and is is voted the Most Beautiful overall!

See the entry here https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/6530-atlas-of-sustainable-development-goals-2023 or go directly to the Sustainable Development Goals Atlas https://datatopics.worldbank.org/sdgatlas

Congrats to the whole team, and especially to the dataviz team, with @JanWillemTulp @dominikus and @al_ice_t

maarten, 6 months ago to random

2 months ago, my friend and direct colleague Rob Simmon lost his job. It was a painful parting, but one little silver ligning is that he was able to pick up his great "A Gentle Introduction to GDAL" series. He just published part 7 of the series, about transforming data:
https://medium.com/@robsimmon/a-gentle-introduction-to-gdal-part-7-transforming-data-178df8640dd2

Find the links to the other 6 parts at the bottom of the article

#GDAL #EarthObservation #RemoteSensing

maarten, 6 months ago to random

Two of my favourite dataviz tools/platforms, @datawrapper and @ourworldindata, recently shared what and how they changed their graph making tool:

• Datawrapper shared how they moved their whole app to Sveltekit: https://blog.datawrapper.de/migrating-our-web-app-to-sveltekit/
• Our World in Data shared how they redesigned their Grapher tool: https://ourworldindata.org/redesigning-our-interactive-data-visualizations

archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

The ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England, completed by drone lighting.

More ruins/unfinished buildings completed this way: cutt.ly/UM57zfq

📷 DRIFT/Cyberdrone.

#archaeohistories

andykirk, 7 months ago to random

Next in the #LittleVis series we looked at a innovative way to rotate a chart’s orientation

https://visualisingdata.com/2016/03/little-visualisation-design-part-8/

tonydang, 8 months ago to svelte

D3 calendar example, written in Svelte:
https://tonydang.blog/d3-svelte-calendar/

Part of my series on converting the official D3 examples to Svelte:
https://tonydang.blog/d3-svelte/

#d3js #svelte #sveltejs #dataviz