Remote

Gregor Aisch

@gka@vis.social

mastodon 4.6.6

Senior Visual Data Journalist at Zeit Online. Co-founder and former CTO of @datawrapper@vis.social. NYT graphics alumni #jitter4life #ddj #datavis (he/him)

2222 Followers

542 Following

10 Posts

Joined January 23, 2018

Blog:

https://vis4.net/blog

Portfolio:

https://driven-by-data.net

Datawrapper:

https://www.datawrapper.de/about-us

Schnack:

https://schnack.cool

Posts

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social · Jul 24, 2025

*Huge* new feature in Datawrapper! You can now create locator maps using the globe (aka orthographic) projection. Makes small scale maps so much better compared to the Mercator projection! All thanks to the amazing folks at @datawrapper@mastodon.social and @maplibre@mastodon.social ❤️ https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/new-globe-projection-locator-maps

mastodon.social

Datawrapper (@datawrapper@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social · Jun 22, 2025

Replying to @gka@vis.social

Special thanks to Prof. Dr. Georg Feulner who compiled data from many different studies into a single time series. Without the work of climate scientists, we wouldn't be able to do this!

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social · Jun 22, 2025

Replying to @gka@vis.social

I don't know how many climate scientists where involved in collecting all these samples and turning them into models of past surface temperatures, but here are the studies the data is based on:

Liesicki & Raymo, 2005 (https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2004PA001071)
Jouzel et al., 2007 (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1141038)
Hansen et al., 2013 (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2012.0294)
Westerhold et al., 2020 (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba6853)
Judd et al., 2024 (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk3705)

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social · Jun 22, 2025

Replying to @gka@vis.social

It's crazy to think about where this data is coming from. To recover temperatures over such long time periods, samples where taken from over 5,100 trees, 2,300 ocean sediments, 800 boreholes, 351 coral reefs, and 170 ice cores, historical paper records, and more. You can access the raw data at NOAA/NCEI https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/paleoclimatology

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social · Jun 20, 2025

People tell me nobody wants to look at climate curves anymore, yet here we are!!! Please enjoy our interactive journey through 485 million years of climate history and dive into the fascinating and important work of paleoclimate scientists.

🎁 https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2025-06/klimageschichte-veraenderung-temperatur-entwicklung-daten?freebie=eb85d194

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social · Apr 30, 2025

Remember when I discussed the idea for a new data visualization framework for Svelte? It is time to get excited! I’ve been secretly working on making SveltePlot possible and will finally share the current state next week at Svelte Summit 2025!!! Stay tuned... https://www.vis4.net/blog/2024/01/svelteplot/ https://www.sveltesummit.com/

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social · Mar 09, 2025

Replying to @wahlatlas@norden.social

@wahlatlas@norden.social yes, finally back to the important matters!

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social · Mar 09, 2025

Replying to @gka@vis.social

Arguments I’ve heard so far from viZ defenders:

Data visualization is like magic, so we must be viZards (I disagree, it’s more like craft and science).
Look Google says it’s more popular (a million flies can’t be wrong).
it’s more fun and soundz like the cool kidz (hard to argue with that)

But nothing changes the fact that it’s wrong. Any other takes?

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social · Mar 09, 2025

Replying to @gka@vis.social

I’m viSualizing data, not viZualizing! I studied InfoVis, not InfoViZ. Our fields main scientific conferences are IEEE VIS and EuroVIS, not IEEE VIZ and EuroVIZ. It all comes from visum: Latin for “sight”.

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social · Mar 09, 2025

Perhaps this is a lost fight, but I refuse to use #dataviz as abbreviation for data visualization — it’s wrong and should be #datavis! Why? ➡️ 🧵

Gregor Aisch

Posts

Datawrapper (@datawrapper@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

Remote instance