moritz @moritz@vis.social

Diversity and Inclusion scholarships for under-represented people including but not limited to "race, gender, identity, accessibility needs, socio-economic status, as well as fields of study/employment/participation.". Pass it along to your friends and co-workers! http://eyeofestival.com/registration/#eyeoapply

NEW POST: 10 significant data visualisation developments from the second half of 2018 http://www.visualisingdata.com/2019/02/10-significant-visualisation-developments-july-to-december-2018/

If you write a tutorial, don't cover up all the mistakes you made along the way. Include them in detail!

Reading a success story is nice, but as so often in life, you'll learn so much more from all the mistakes you make, and all the issues you run into... and so will your audience.

NEW POST: New @DataStories podcast: Episode 132, about next generation data visualisation tools http://www.visualisingdata.com/2018/12/data-stories-podcast-episode-132-next-gen-tools/

anyway now I can turn letters into lsystems and grow plantpersands

If you happen to be in Berlin on Oct 22 (same time as Info+ and IEEE VIS) join us for the Data Stories Listener meetup! Here is the link to sign-up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-stories-listener-meetup-registration-50557867944.

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

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