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Gregor Aisch

@gka@vis.social

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

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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

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social

· 14mo ago

*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

datawrapper.de

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social

· 17mo ago

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/

vis4.net

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social

· 19mo ago

Replying to

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

· 15mo ago

Replying to

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

ncei.noaa.gov

Paleoclimatology | National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)

NCEI manages the world's largest archive of climate and paleoclimatology data. Our mission is to preserve and make this data and information available in order to understand and model environmental variability on an interannual to millennial time scale. The Paleoclimatology team operates the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology and an Applied Research Service for Paleoclimatology, and partners with national and international science initiatives around the world to expand the use of paleo

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social

· 15mo ago

Replying to

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

· 19mo ago

Replying to

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

· 15mo ago

Replying to

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)

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Gregor Aisch @gka@vis.social

· 19mo ago

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