vis4.net

Random thoughts on visualization and data journalism by Gregor Aisch

• Sep 21, 2023
  Review of Observable Plot
• Nov 18, 2022
  Where our CO2 emissions are coming from
• Nov 8, 2022
  Goodbye, Twitter 👋
• Jan 2, 2020
  2019 was warmer than normal -- but what does "normal" even mean?
• Aug 2, 2019
  Almost half of Europe's soil is dryer than normal
• Jun 24, 2019
  Update for the chroma.js palette helper
• May 7, 2019
  Re: But what about line charts?
• Mar 20, 2019
  Not My Society
• Feb 8, 2018
  I wrote some code that automatically checks visualizations for non-colorblind safe colors. Here's how it works
• Oct 24, 2017
  Moving on... to Datawrapper
• Oct 8, 2017
  Say hello to Schnack.js: A new Disqus-like commenting drop-in for static websites
• Oct 3, 2017
  So long, Wordpress
• Apr 21, 2017
  Running elementary.os on a MacBook, what works well, and what does not.
• Mar 31, 2017
  In Defense of Interactive Graphics
• Mar 2, 2017
  Re-coloring Illustrator graphics based on JSON data files

• datawrapper: A tool to create embeddable charts, maps and tables
• schnack.js: Disqus-like drop-in for self-hosted comments on static websites (used in this blog)
• chroma.js: A tiny JavaScript library for dealing with colors
• color palette helper: A tool for making better color palettes for charts and maps
• d3-jetpack: Convenience wrappers that speed up your daily work with d3.js
• canvid: tiny JS library for playing video on canvas elements
• driven-by-data.net: A website where I list all of the graphics I made
• Hacker NYT: Simple HN style feed of NYT stories