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Making visual things with data, #d3js, #rstats and friends | telling and shaping data-stories...

[lars v @lars_vers]

d3-hexgrid is now live to help you make tessellated hexbin maps. ⬡⬢ It also accurately visualises edge hexagons and provides some handy data summaries for colour encodings. 🐳! https://t.co/hDEiItBaxh #d3js #dataviz #javascript

[Jan Diehm @jadiehm]

Yesterday @puddingviz launched our latest piece: a look at how romance novel covers have changed by @aliceyliang. I was lucky enough to serve as an editor for it. Follow along this thread for some of my behind the scenes. 🧵 https://t.co/SoMacTIhSi

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

You may not want to hear it, but the capabilities of AI this week are already massively better than a week ago.

It is clear giving AI the ability to execute & run its own software shows enormous capabilities, and how much high-level work current AI can do https://t.co/9QLr8h5uip

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Unreal that “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” will be opening on the same day: July 21, 2023. You will experience the entire spectrum of human emotion watching them back-to-back.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

This guy finishing the London Marathon while dressed as Big Ben is a top 7 human athletic achievement

[Moin Nadeem @moinnadeem]

@NaveenGRao Lol the number of crypto influences turned AI influencers in my feed is insane

[Alex MacCaw @maccaw]

AI is the next platform. A platform needs an app-store. We engineers currently have a slim chance of creating this app-store layer before some large corporation does it. We must seize this chance.

It is very important that we don't repeat the same mistakes again and have another situation like Apple's App store.

Controlling something as fundamental as an app-store is too much power for any one company. And a high transaction-tax ultimately costs us all in lost innovation.

That's why I'm building https://t.co/k2duuoapZR, an open-source package-manager for OpenAPI files. AIs can use consume packages from openpm in a similar fashion to how ChatGPT plugins work. Ultimately, AIs can use openpm to discover and interact with the world via APIs.

Everything we release is under the MIT license. At any point you can choose to export all of our packages and run them on your own server.

Check out the project. Feedback welcomed. As are API submissions.

https://t.co/CJmmv95snU

[lars v @lars_vers]

@NadiehBremer @infobeautyaward Thanks much indeed! 🍇

[Nadieh Bremer @NadiehBremer]

Great approach, and great execution: this #dataviz scroller by @lars_vers that uses wine quality to teach the viewer about some data science'ing 😆

https://t.co/K62Mh9VPZV

via @infobeautyaward

[The Pudding @puddingviz]

What role did the neighborhood you grew up in have in shaping your economic opportunities?🚪🌫 Using data from @oppinsights, author @aboutaaron tells a story about migration, community, and returning to your roots. #upwardmobility #migration #datastory

https://t.co/3JHWWxwqdX

[lars v @lars_vers]

@martgnz Massive congrats Martín! Can’t wait to see your magic at the NYT 🦄

[Justin Schroeder @jpschroeder]

📣 AutoAnimate's docs have been updated with @sveltejs examples. It could not be any easier to use with Svelte — the only lib we support (so far) that doesn't use any glue code.

@Rich_Harris and the team are building absolute magic. Svelte is incredible.
https://t.co/ynKk9lXvZS

[Bartosz Ciechanowski @BCiechanowski]

Mechanical Watch – https://t.co/k3lFIYMrql

[mrdoob @mrdoob]

Build with @Unity, run with @threejs 🤓

[Volodymyr Agafonkin 🇺🇦 @mourner]

Look what my friends from @LeafletJS core team put up on the website while I was busy. Much love ❤️

[Chris Henrick | @[email protected] @chrislhenrick]

🎉🎉🎉 Happy to finally open source and release:

<color-legend-element />

A custom element suitable for use as a legend in #dataviz built with @d3js_org & @buildWithLit. Inspired by @mbostock's color-legend on @observablehq

https://t.co/WXImSMty7p

#webdev #javascript

[Mike Bostock @mbostock]

After 50+ issues and PRs, @recifs and I are pleased to announce that Observable Plot 0.4.0 is now available. Arrows, vectors, symbols, multiline text, and more! https://t.co/mdxEeDFtb2

[Jan Diehm @jadiehm]

Dear friends, I know that the past 2 years have broken us all in immeasurable ways. I’m a very private person, so I haven’t shared my own journey, but I’m at the point where speaking out might be the only way to get better. 🧵

[Hadley Wickham @hadleywickham]

Lee Wilkinson is the reason that ggplot2 exists; not just because he wrote the Grammar of Graphics, but also because he was so kind and supportive to me when I was a young grad student thinking of trying to implement it. He will be missed.

[Volodymyr Agafonkin 🇺🇦 @mourner]

Making projections work seamlessly on interactive maps has been a very difficult challenge. Led by @aibram with @RyanHamley and me at @Mapbox, it was on our minds most of the year. Here's my longest engineering article in years to tell you how we did it. https://t.co/MzILmBC2ke