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Independent journalist mapping environmental change with satellite imagery and GIS. Headed a news bureau at a national daily previously.

Joined June 2013
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Ramachandran@onlinescribeSep 19
“The fact that the UN is debating map projections for an entire hour is already totally thrilling for cartographers, and then it was our map projection. I mean, what else can you ask for?” theguardian.com/science/ng-i… #maps #GIS #cartography

‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias

Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display

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Ramachandran@onlinescribeSep 5
How the Indian subcontinent looks under the new Equal Earth map projection the UN just adopted #EqualEarth #Cartography #India #Maps
The United Nations General Assembly has endorsed the Equal Earth projection, said to show the relative sizes of continents more faithfully than the familiar Mercator projection. This is how the Indian sub continent looks under it.

ALT The United Nations General Assembly has endorsed the Equal Earth projection, said to show the relative sizes of continents more faithfully than the familiar Mercator projection. This is how the Indian sub continent looks under it.

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Randall Munroe
@xkcd12 Oct 2022
Road Space Comparison xkcd.com/2684
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I'm excited to finally share with you a four-part blog post series I've been working on in the last few months. They all answer one question: Which color scale should you use for which data? Part 1 gives the overview I always wished I could link to: blog.datawrapper.de/which-co…

Which color scale to use when visualizing data | Datawrapper Blog

This is part 1 of a series on “Which color scale to use when visualizing data” (Part …

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Bob Sykes@BelieveInBob11 Jan 2021
Treating a human head the way a globe is treated by the Mercator... dlvr.it/RqMxK6
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Ethan Zuckerman@EthanZ15 Apr 2020
What does a responsible #COVID19 visualization look like? Great insights from @kanarinka: news.mit.edu/2020/catherine-…

3 Questions: Catherine D’Ignazio on visualizing Covid-19 data

MIT Assistant Professor Catherine D’Ignazio speaks about the current boom in Covid-19 data visualizations and how data visualizers can help us make sense of the pandemic’s uncertain numbers. Co-aut...

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IJNet@IJNet27 May 2019
Out of more than 600 data-driven project submissions, the #DJA jury narrowed the list to 103. These projects represent 26 countries and 73 organizations. Check it out: buff.ly/30AgUK3
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Hundreds of flights have been affected after Pakistan restricted its airspace after an air strike by the Indian military in late February. Reuters analysed a group of 311 such flights: tmsnrt.rs/2DBBEXW
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Wondering about the cover of the @IPCC_CH #SR15 #climatechange report? Based on a graph which shows how we would need to change direction to limit global warming to 1.5°C. #ClimateAction
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OpenRefine@OpenRefine16 Sep 2018
OpenRefine V3.0 Release release is available on GitHub ift.tt/2MF394y

Release OpenRefine v3.0 · OpenRefine/OpenRefine

This is the release of OpenRefine 3.0. Please backup your workspace directory before installing and report any problems that you encounter. See the full list of changes. OpenRefine is funded by Go...

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ggplot2 3.0.0 now on CRAN — tidyverse.org/articles/2018/… 🎉 Headline features are tidy eval, sf support, position_dodge2(), & viridis. Huge thanks to all 300+ contributors to this release, and particularly to @ClausWilke, @kara_woo, @_lionelhenry and @thomasp85
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After inventing the web, when I came to the USA, its rules promoted the open internet as a space for innovation. I hope I can count on your support for the CRA to keep this spirit alive cc @SenJohnKennedy @SenDeanHeller @lisamurkowski #NetNeutrality
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New article! Three problems with dual axis charts and four alternatives. Mentioning the many people who've written helpful things on that topic, e.g. @storywithdata, @evergreendata & @hadleywickham blog.datawrapper.de/dualaxis…

Why not to use two axes, and what to use instead | Datawrapper Blog

We believe that charts with two different y-axes make it hard for most people to intuitively make right statements about two data series.

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Josh Spero@joshspero11 May 2018
The bastion has fallen! Our style guide has changed
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Mike Bostock@mbostock22 Mar 2018
D3 5.0 is out! 🎉 Here’s a summary of what’s new: github.com/d3/d3/blob/master…

d3/CHANGES.md at main · d3/d3

Bring data to life with SVG, Canvas and HTML. :bar_chart::chart_with_upwards_trend::tada: - d3/d3

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Jake VanderPlas@jakevdp16 Mar 2018
The Altair 2.0 release candidate is now available, with full support for interactive Vega-Lite visualizations in Python! - Installation instructions: altair-viz.github.io/gallery… - Example Gallery: altair-viz.github.io/gallery… Try it out, and we'd love to hear what you think!
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Hi! @driven_by_data and I have a provocative theory: Diverging stacked bar charts are bad. And yes, we urge you to convince us otherwise → blog.datawrapper.de/divergin…
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Brian T. Jacobs@btjakes27 Feb 2018
New project! Visualizing bird migration across the Western Hemisphere. #yearofthebird nationalgeographic.com/magaz…

Billions of Birds Migrate. Where Do They Go?

Migratory birds have made their thousand-mile flights for millennia, but we are just now learning to map their mesmerizing journeys.

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Loving the #meta in this one: a choropleth world map explaining why choropleth world maps are bad :-) Very clever idea by @lisacrost blog.datawrapper.de/cartogra…
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I'm very happy to show you what I've been working on for the last two weeks: 🎉 Cartograms 🎉 for @Datawrapper! Let me know which cartograms you consider useful (which types? for which regions/countries?) I hope to add more of them soon. blog.datawrapper.de/cartogra…

Introducing Cartograms in Datawrapper | Datawrapper Blog

Today we’re extending the Datawrapper map collection with our first three population cartograms: of US states, the world, and German states. To use these three maps do the following: click on Crea

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