Inspiring people & content 📚

This page is a curated collection of articles, courses, newsletters, and individuals that I find inspiring. I hope you’ll find them interesting too!

This list is far from exhaustive, entirely subjective, and updated from time to time. Whenever I come across something or someone remarkable, I add it here. If you have any suggestions, feel free to reach out.

Inspiring people

Computational journalism 🕵️

There are so many interesting people! Here’s a Bluesky list I maintain.

Data visualization 📊

• Alberto Cairo — Author of several books on infographics and data visualization.
  Website / Bluesky / LinkedIn

• Francis Gagnon — Founder of Voilà, an information design company specializing in sustainable development.
  LinkedIn / Bluesky

• Shirley Wu — Data visualization expert.
  LinkedIn / Bluesky

• Nadieh Bremer — Data visualization expert.
  LinkedIn / Bluesky / GitHub

• Craig Taylor - Expert in spatial data visualizations.
  Website / YouTube / Bluesky

• Karim Douieb - Data scientist and data visualization expert.
  Website / LinkedIn / Bluesky

• Tanya Shapiro - Consultant in data analysis and visualization.
  Website / LinkedIn / Bluesky / GitHub

• Federica Fragapane - Independent information designer. Several of her works have been acquired by the MoMA.
  Behance / LinkedIn

• Nathan Yau - Data visualization expert and PhD in statistics. Runs Flowing Data.
  LinkedIn / Bluesky

• Sarah Fossheim - Data visualization accessibility expert.
  GitHub / LinkedIn / Bluesky

• Peter Atwood - Cartographic designer. Makes 3D maps with Blender and publishes tutorials.
  Website / LinkedIn / Bluesky

Code 🧑‍💻

• Mike Bostock — Creator of D3.js and founder of Observable. Formerly at The New York Times.
  GitHub / Bluesky

• Philippe Rivière — Open-source contributor with a passion for journalism and cartography. Works with Mike Bostock.
  GitHub / LinkedIn / Bluesky

• Ryan Dahl — Creator of Node.js and co-founder of Deno.
  GitHub / Bluesky

• Rich Harris — Creator of Svelte and other open-source projects. Formerly at The New York Times.
  GitHub / Bluesky

• Mathia — Creator of The Joy of Code. Explains Svelte concepts very well.
  Website / GitHub / YouTube / Bluesky

• Ricardo Cabello (Mr. Doob) — Creator of Three.js.
  GitHub / LinkedIn / Bluesky

• Matt Pocock — Author of Total TypeScript.
  GitHub / LinkedIn / YouTube / Bluesky

• Lydia Hallie — Software engineer exceptionally skilled at explaining JavaScript concepts.
  GitHub / YouTube / Bluesky

Creative coding 🦄

• Sebastian Lague — Creator of the popular Coding Adventure videos.
  GitHub / Bluesky / YouTube

• Bruno Simon — 3D web expert and author of Three.js Journey.
  GitHub / LinkedIn / Bluesky

• Daniel Shiffman — Creator of The Coding Train and The Nature of Code.
  Website / YouTube / Bluesky

Artificial intelligence 🧠

• Clément Delangue – Co-founder & CEO at Hugging Face.
  LinkedIn / Bluesky

• Simon Willison – Independent AI researcher and open-source developer. Tests new models and explains how to use them.
  Website / GitHub / Mastodon / Bluesky

• Jonathan Soma – Data journalism professor at Columbia University. Teaches many practical workshops on AI and journalism.
  Website / GitHub / LinkedIn / YouTube

• Florent Daudens – Former journalist and manager at Radio-Canada. Now press lead at Hugging Face. Talks a lot about the journalistic use of artificial intelligence.
  Website / LinkedIn / Bluesky

Data 🔢

• Max Roser - Founder of Our World in Data.
  Website/ Bluesky / LinkedIn

Interesting content

Newsletters ✉️

• Data Vis Dispatch — A great curation of data visualizations from media outlets, by Datawrapper.

• Flowing Data — Covers data analysis and visualization.

• Data Is Plural — A newsletter by Jeremy Singer-Vine, data editor at The New York Times, sharing interesting open datasets.

• Quantum of Sollazzo — Covers data journalism, visualization, and analysis.

• Bytes — A technical yet humorous newsletter about the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem.

• Buena Vista Data Club - A newsletter by the French studio We Do Data.

• Open Visualization Academy - Open Visualization Academy is an open-source repository of knowledge on information design and data visualization.

Articles 👀

• What is Code? — A deep dive into programming, by Paul Ford for Bloomberg.

• Five ways to effectively use animation in data visualization - By the Observable HQ team.

• Math for journalists - By me. 😁

• Defense Against Dishonest Charts - By Nathan Yau, who is behind Flowing Data.

Videos 📺

• Training AI to Play Pokemon with Reinforcement Learning — An exceptional video showing AIs playing the famous video game.

• Wrapped 2023 / Wrapped 2022 / Wrapped 2021 - Compilations of work done by Craig Taylor, expert in spatial data visualization.

Courses 🧑‍🏫

Free/open-source

• R for Journalists — By Andrew Ba Tran, from The Washington Post.
• The Nature of Code — By Daniel Shiffman.

Paid

• Total TypeScript — By Matt Pocock.
• Three.js Journey — By Bruno Simon.

Data sources 🌐

• Our World In Data - A wide range of datasets covering health, poverty, and climate change. A great source for comparing countries.

Conferences 🧑‍🏫

• NICAR - The annual pilgrimage of North American data journalism.

• Outlier - A conference exclusively dedicated to data visualization.

This list will continue to grow over time. If you have any recommendations, don’t hesitate to reach out! 🚀