moritz @moritz@vis.social

For those in and around Berlin this October and planning to attend InfoPlusConf and/or IEEE VIS, be sure to check out the 1-day #VisInPractice speaker lineup at VIS on Monday Oct 22: http://visinpractice.org.

The VIS early bird registration deadline is this Friday Sept 7: http://ieeevis.org/year/2018/info/registration/conference-registration

A great way to break global warming down to the local impact: enter your hometown and the year you were born to get your own version of the story https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/30/climate/how-much-hotter-is-your-hometown.html

“It was doing that for an hour before everyone panicked and got me and QA on the phone to fix it. I wrote a quick Python/Fabric script that SSH’d to as many cars as possible at a time to `rm` the file. I’ve got a few hundred stories like this.”

Tesla firmware horrors via @nelson – https://lgbt.io/@nelson/100606398692581941

Things I like about Mastodon 2:
It's an open system. In a practical sense - you can create mastodon apps on any platform, use the api, etc. No approval needed, no stupid token system. Like Twitter was originally before they locked it down to make sure their client was the most used client - not because it was the best one, but because they put a stranglehold on any other client using the api.

Things I like about Mastodon 1:
Control over the timeline. It's just a chronological list of updates from people I follow. No weird marketing algorithms showing me "high quality" updates or hiding "low quality" ones. No "promoted" updates, no "in case you missed it". The ability to easily mute and block users, and easily filter on various criteria. Also no ads, although, to be honest, I'm not particularly against ads in an app or service that I'm not paying for, if done right.

NEW POST: 10 significant visualisation developments, from January to June 2018 http://www.visualisingdata.com/2018/08/10-significant-visualisation-developments-january-june-2018/

NEW POST: A compilation of the best data visualisation related stuff discovered during April 2018

http://www.visualisingdata.com/2018/06/best-visualisation-web-april-2018/

Including these great works by @taylorbaldwin and @amycesal

@scott they're missing Input Mono! http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/

Please take a moment and fill out the 2018 Data Visualization Survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft5kH866hkyVbxqe8Cl7mJDBLbpy5aWIHmYP5ztdO8RDattg/viewform

Elijah Meeks did this last year, and provide lots of good insights and discussions around the data viz industry

I swear, @lisacrost is doing the most clear and accessible writing about data vis principles today. Read her latest: https://blog.datawrapper.de/dualaxis/

Last day(s) to sign up!

Visualizing Inequalities – SDG DataViz Camp
Monday 28 May – Friday 1 June​,​ ​Designlab, University of Twente, Netherlands​

​Multidisciplinary t​eams
(from various countries)
guided by expert mentors
will analyze, map, visualize
data on social inequalities
related to gender, income,​ etc. ​​

Info at: https://utwente.nl/sdg-dataviz-camp

Questions? Mail: <datavizcamp@utwente.nl>

Registration deadline is:
Before 7 May!
Sign up now​ via: ▶ https://www.utwente.nl/en/designlab/forms/sdg_participants/

Ready, set, go! The submission system for the @ieeevis Arts Program @visapnet is now open. Instructions and details are here: http://visap.net/submission-instructions …. Looking forward to receiving a new lot of amazing submissions!