Luisa Vasquez

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data viz grad student at MICA | product designer by day

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What if each U.S. National Park had a cookie-cutter section removed and placed on a giant chessboard for easy comparison? My latest, with Wendy Shijia Wang: charts.substack.com/p/delicious-...

Delicious Parkscharts.substack.com ~ And the spirit was hovering over the surface ~

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I am beyond thrilled to share that DATA BY DESIGN: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF DATA VISUALIZATION, 1789-1900 is now open for community review at 💚 📊 dataxdesign.io 📊 💙. It's the work of 15+ people across 5 institutions, 2 continents, 2 babies, and a global pandemic. A 🧵 but first:

I was lucky to be paired with the amazing @hannahdormido.bsky.social as part of the @datavizsociety.bsky.social mentorship program over the past couple of months. We had weekly chats about life, careers, & journalism. And she guided me through writing a fun story! 📊👉 charlotte-walkability.vercel.app

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NEW: Questions in Dataviz: How do we take inspiration from textile dataviz? Book review #27 reviews Record, Map & Culture Art by Jordan Cunliffe. A great book showcasing textile art to inspire all dataviz and data art practitioners, textile or otherwise 📊 questionsindataviz.com/2024/04/18/h...

How can we take inspiration from textile dataviz?questionsindataviz.com I first wanted to call this post “What is steganography?”. I chose against it, because this post acts as a review of “Record, Map & Culture in Textile Art” by Jordan Cunliffe, a book I have had the pl...

A cool read on creating weighted, random distributions using excel to design a quilt thecrookedhem.substack.com/p/the-ellswo...

The Ellsworth Kelly quilt, part 2thecrookedhem.substack.com Math and quilts

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This one took a bit of work, but really like the quilting feel of it. Took my earlier #Generative #linocut and added half size stippled black triangles. Rotation of the stippled triangles also set by the roll of a d4. #GenerativeDice #dataart #dataviz 📊

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📊 Two of the things Luisa Vasquez (@vluisa.bsky.social) loves are reading and sewing. So, when she saw a way she could combine her two loves while sprinkling in some data viz, she had to document her process in creating a quilt visualizing her 2023 reading list. nightingaledvs.com/quilting-my-...

Quilting My Reading List - Nightingalenightingaledvs.com This quilt was created using the data from all the books I read in 2023. It measures roughly 11×16 inches, was assembled on my sewing..

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I'm on vacation and that's why here's already the next Svelte ❤️ D3 video. This time: How to build a responsive map from a geojson file. 📊🗺️ ➡️ youtu.be/W7nkruZ2q0s

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"Helvetica is more than a font, it’s a state of mind". In our latest blog post, Stamen cartographer @mappingmashups.bsky.social takes us on a typographic tour through the font selection in our signature "Toner" map style. stamen.com/helvetica-is...

Helvetica is more than a font, it’s a state of mind | Stamenstamen.com One of our biggest projects last year was an update of our classic basemap styles, working hard with our partners at Stadia to adapt these maps to modern infrastructure and keep them running for years...

I’m excited to share a data art project I’ve been working on this month! It’s a quilt made using the data of all the books I read in 2023 📊

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HOW TO GET STARTED ON DATAVIZ BLUESKY 📊 IN 9 STEPS If you're arriving here, you may wonder where is the dataviz community and how to partake in it. Here's a thread on how I suggest going about it. 🧵👇

@albertocairo.bsky.social ‘s new book arrived just in time for some airport reading!

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Save the date for outlier conference! June 12-14, 2024 | Chicago USA Chicago is very lovely in June so that’s just an extra bonus.

Thanks for the invite @amycesal.bsky.social ! Going to share some of my data viz projects as I learn & grow. This is one of my favorites so far - a set of 4 coasters about the Colombian coffee trade (images show front & back of each coaster)

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