Main

dataviz

If you want to join this channel 

https://warpcast.com/~/channel/dataviz/join?inviteCode=wsCzKFRM6tP_--shULgS3w

The price of gas at the pump of the last 35 years in constant 2025 $CAD ⛽🚘

It got more expensive, +/- 30%, although it's been impressively steady since 2010 in most cities.

99% of network visualizations are utterly useless. They create impressive-looking hairballs of relationships using algorithms that appear meaningful but aren't. Despite the visual appeal, they rarely help users complete tasks more efficiently than simple tables, cards, or profiles would. We keep making them because they look cool in demos, not because they solve real problems

Timeline of monetary history

credit: Flixq

Canada’s Conservatives are the most pro-nuclear, Bloc Québécois is the least. 

The Liberals, Conservatives and the Quebec nationalists love hydroelectricity the most. The left-wing New Democratic Party prefers solar and wind. 

Everyone opposes fracking except the Conservatives. 

Fascinating chart looking at how voters from each of Canada’s four main parties see different sources of energy:

follow @kaufman for more nice dataviz 😄

Reporter and writer. I cover energy, climate change and geopolitics. Contact me via my website www.alexanderckaufman.com and subscribe to kaufman.substack.com.

kaloh

Am I the only one seeing crypto charts here? 😬

"To address this challenge, tidyplots provides a user-friendly code-based interface for creating customizable and insightful plots."

If you want to try new ways to mâle dataviz :)

"To address this challenge, tidyplots provides a user-friendly code-based interface for creating customizable and insightful plots."

If you want to try new ways to mâle dataviz :)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/imt2.70018

Excellence in the physical properties of books published since 1910 (Dwiggins, 1919)

Pages by Lajos Illyefalvi’s statistical albums of Budapest.

That's super impressive 😳
 
Source: https://nightingaledvs.com/exploring-hungarian-data-graphics-with-attila-batorfy/

Dax Kellie on Bluesky made this nice dataviz for the international Forest day

aichannel

Crazy how bad ChatGPT hallucinations are still. It's one of the reasons we switched to Claude back in the summer.

Now medical AI research is confirming the existential risk of using AI that isn't grounded or factually aligned to science.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.05777

A visual taxonomy of medical hallucinations in LLMs, organized into five main clusters

Very Internet Person

Anna's Archive organized a /dataviz contest for « all the ISBNs in the world » (or all they could find), based on several libraries and also showing if they have it in their digital library.

Winners have been announced − you're welcome for the rabbit hole!
https://annas-archive.org/blog/all-isbns-winners.html

Remove to improve 

https://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked

Many beautiful and interactive maps. FT rarely misses their dataviz 👌

Many beautiful and interactive maps. FT rarely misses their dataviz 👌

https://ig.ft.com/ukraine-war-food-insecurity/