Gregor Aisch

@gka@vis.social
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Senior Visual Data Journalist at Zeit Online. Co-founder and former CTO of @datawrapper. NYT graphics alumni #jitter4life #ddj #datavis (he/him)
Bloghttps://vis4.net/blog
Portfoliohttps://driven-by-data.net
Datawrapperhttps://www.datawrapper.de/about-us
Schnackhttps://schnack.cool
Show threadGregor AischJun 22
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!
Show threadGregor AischJun 22
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)
Show threadGregor AischJun 22
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 AischJun 20

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

Klimageschichte: Scrollen Sie sich durch 485 Millionen Jahre Erdgeschichte

Von den Dinosauriern bis zum iPhone: Das Klima auf der Erde hat schon immer geschwankt. Nur: Das letzte Mal, als es so warm war wie heute, lebten noch die Neandertaler.

ZEIT ONLINE
Gregor AischApr 30
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/
Observable Plot + Svelte = SveltePlot?

Outlining the idea for a new plotting framework in Svelte

vis4.net
Gregor AischApr 28
Thomas GüntherApr 28

New article: my favourite accessibility improvements that require little to no effort. Simple habits for more inclusive websites.

https://medienbaecker.com/articles/accessibility-no-brainers

Accessibility no-brainers

My no-brainer accessibility improvements for smaller projects. From using the right HTML elements to preventing your animations from making people sick.

Show threadGregor AischMar 9

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?

Show threadGregor AischMar 9
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 AischMar 9
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? ➡️ 🧵
Show threadGregor AischFeb 28
this was the thread I was referring to, btw. There was a problem with my Bsky/Mastodon crossposting... https://vis.social/@gka/114078579028822219
Gregor Aisch (@gka@vis.social)

Attached: 1 image For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography

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