Inspiring people & reads 📚

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 🕵️

To do!

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

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

Interesting reads

Newsletters ✉️

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

• Flowing Data — Covers data analysis and visualization.
  Website

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

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

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

Articles 👀

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

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.

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