🚌🌆 Would you like to explore how public transport and population density connect in a major city? Liliana Paola Salas Nino created an award-winning #visualization mapping the relationship between bus stop distribution and population density in #Bogotá, earning 🥈 2nd place in the University of Arizona Libraries 2022 Data Visualization Challenge. Check out the full visualization at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.19738594. Image: Liliana Salas (2022). CC BY 4.0 #OpenData #OpenScience #DataViz #UrbanPlanning #GIS

💡 Did you know a #laser can keep producing stable light even when part of its normal energy structure is missing? Rudolf Binder, N.H. Kwong and Matthew Emerson Spotnitz discovered this unexpected “gapless” laser behavior in #semiconductor lasers, revealing a surprising new way light systems can operate. Learn more from their dataset and article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.24424420 and https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.045306. Image: Stockcake. #Opendata #OpenScience #Physics #UniversityofArizona

🌿🌱Ever wonder what the inside of a #quailbush (Atriplex lentiformis) seed looks like? Kamila Murawska-Wlodarczyk revealed the inner structures of the seed of this shrub, native to the southwestern United States, from the coat to the root tip in an unusual visualization that came 🏆third in the University of Arizona Libraries 2023 #DataViz Challenge. Learn more about the visualization at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.22726886. Image: Kamila Maria Murawska-Wlodarczyk (2023). CC BY 4.0 #OpenData #OpenScience

🌋Would you like to see the 2021 #Fagradalsfjall eruption from above? Christopher W. Hamilton, Brett Carr and Joana Ruth Charlotte Voigt present georeferenced drone imagery capturing lava flows and vent locations from surveys by the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. 🔥A powerful aerial view of a volcano in action. Check out the collection at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.21071140. Image: Hamilton et al. (2022). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. #Opendata #Openscience #Eruption #universityofArizona

🌆Did you know #Pomona, #California, was once an agricultural hub, but now it has more roads and buildings with large parking lots than before? 📊Irene Pineda revealed this transformation through a visualisation highlighting areas in urgent need of vegetation, earning 1st place in the University of Arizona Libraries’ 2022 Data Visualisation Challenge. See the full visualization at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.19719094. Image: Irene Pineda (2022). CC BY 4.0 #OpenData #OpenScience #DataViz

🧬🌱Did you know that when plants combine #DNA from two different species (like cotton), scientists once thought the DNA would frequently “mix and swap” between them? Justin Conover and co-researchers found that this is actually rare. In most cases, the DNA stays the same, suggesting earlier methods may have overestimated this mixing. Learn more from their dataset & article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.24512896 & https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16386. Image: Conover et al. (2024) CC BY 4.0 #Opendata #OpenScience #Genetics

🔬 Did you know studying how surfaces change light (#polarimetry) usually requires many measurements to reconstruct a full Mueller matrix? 💡The key effect captured by the Mueller matrix is depolarization, which is how much a surface scrambles light. Quinn Jarecki and Meredith Kupinski show you can estimate this directly using ~10× fewer measurements. See their dataset & article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.19763086 & https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2619055. Image: Jarecki & Kupinski (2022). CC BY 4.0 #OpenData #OpenScience

🌱🖥️Did you know much of scientific data is hard for #computers to use because it’s written in plain, often ambiguous language, and fixing it later is slow and inconsistent. A new tool, Measurement Recorder by Cui et al., helps researchers create clear, structured, computer-ready data from the start, reducing errors and improving consistency. Check out their dataset, code and article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.12578603 & https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baaa079. Image: Cui et al. (2020). CC BY 4.0. #OpenScience #OpenData

🔴 Did you know #Mars is still changing, and you can see it in 3D? Processes like erosion and rock breakdown happen on Mars, too! Using ultra-sharp #HiRISE images, Sarah S Sutton, Matthew Chojnacki, Alfred McEwen and co-researchers capture detailed 3D views of dunes and mysterious dark streaks as they evolve. 🛰️Explore the animated views and article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.19555210 and https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14102403. Image: Sutton et al. (2022). CC BY 4.0. #OpenData #OpenScience #PlanetaryScience

🌿Did you know citizen #scientists can help solve difficult ecological mysteries? Christopher Frost trained a team of 394 regular people to measure how much insects eat leaves in a rainforest. They examined over 175,000 leaves and, with high data integrity, confirmed that leaves lower in the forest get eaten much more than leaves at the top (18% vs. 12%). Explore the dataset & article at https://doi.org/10.25422/azu.data.14192885 & https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3539. Image: Stockcake. #OpenData #OpenScience #CitizenScience