Simon Jockers

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🚲 small town urbanist / 🧑‍💻 software developer / 📈 data journalist
wwwhttps://simonjockers.de
Simon JockersDec 2, 2023
This, web mapping friends, is why you should seriously consider self-hosting your map tiles 👀 https://hoodmaps.com/
Simon JockersJun 21, 2023
Today is #ShowYourStripes day and people across the world are sharing climate stripe graphics. But did you know you can use @datawrapper to make climate stripes for any city or region? Here's how! https://blog.datawrapper.de/warming-stripes/
A minimal chart about global warming for the hottest year on record - Datawrapper Blog

This is Simon, a software engineer at Datawrapper. For this week’s edition of the Weekly Chart, I've experimented with creating climate stripes in Datawrapper.

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Show threadSimon JockersMay 31, 2023
Datawrapper tables are extremely versatile and customisable—they can embed images, bar charts, sparklines, and more. Check this great example by @lisacrost 🎨 https://blog.datawrapper.de/eu-election-germany-parties-tables-meps/
A black & white table about parties (you know, without the party colors)

What a day yesterday! We launched our new tables, and then you told us all on Twitter and in emails that you like them. Thank you! That was really nice to hear. If you haven’t checked out the new

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Show threadSimon JockersMay 30, 2023
In this stunning choropleth map, Rose Mintzer-Sweeney mapped out results from the Central Park Squirrel Census, using custom geometries 🐿
https://blog.datawrapper.de/central-park-squirrel-map/
The 2018 Central Park Squirrel Census - Datawrapper Blog

Hey, it’s Rose! I write for Datawrapper’s blog, and today I’m reporting on some of New York’s more beloved rodents.

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Simon JockersDec 9, 2022

🛣️ For the current edition of the @datawrapper weekly charts series, I made some graphics about the German Autobahn.

Based on publicly available data, I'm debunking some myths surrounding the climate effects of speed limits, or the lack thereof.

https://blog.datawrapper.de/the-case-for-speed-limits/

The case for speed limits - Datawrapper Blog

This is Simon, a software engineer at Datawrapper. This week I’m looking at data about German motorways and the current speed limit debate.

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Show threadSimon JockersNov 8, 2020
Now with up-to-date figures for 2020! #CreatedWithDatawrapper
Show threadSimon JockersDec 17, 2019
Very few women made it onto the best-of list. The top 25 has only two songs by female MC’s (Queen Latifah and Lauryn Hill). That's less than it has songs featuring OutKast.
Show threadSimon JockersDec 17, 2019
The golden era was big: Most high-ranking songs are from the mid-80s to mid-90s. Little surprise here, I guess. In the top 25, there are only two songs from past decade (by Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar).
Simon JockersMar 21, 2019
Operation blackout: The German Wikipedia has blacked out today in protest of #article11 and #article13 of the proposed EU copyright directive 👏
Simon JockersJan 2, 2019
The slides from my #35c3 talk about the ideas and technology behind the Datenguide project are now online.
https://downloads.datengui.de/slides/35c3-chaoszone.pdf #OpenData