Voilà: Francis Gagnon
@chezvoila.com
Information design and data visualization studio focused on the environment, social development, and governance.
Montreal (since 2013).
English and French
Interactives, dashboards, reports, presentations, training
Posts by Francis Gagnon, founder
Montreal (since 2013).
English and French
Interactives, dashboards, reports, presentations, training
Posts by Francis Gagnon, founder
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Voilà: Francis Gagnon
@chezvoila.com
· Sep 1
Here you go. 🫡
Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊
go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy
Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊
go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy
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Once is a test, twice is a habit. To mark the end of 2025, we’re making a habit out of reflecting on our growth as a team through this second edition of Our Year In Numbers.
January 2, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Once is a test, twice is a habit. To mark the end of 2025, we’re making a habit out of reflecting on our growth as a team through this second edition of Our Year In Numbers.
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🎉 We’ve received 310 responses to the 2025 State of the Data Viz Industry Survey so far! Take the survey if you create #dataviz in any capacity (hobby, work, school, art), and help us spread the word: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...
January 5, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🎉 We’ve received 310 responses to the 2025 State of the Data Viz Industry Survey so far! Take the survey if you create #dataviz in any capacity (hobby, work, school, art), and help us spread the word: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...
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-2C by the Union Canal in Edinburgh.
Only a swan could fall through broken ice so gracefully. 🦢
Only a swan could fall through broken ice so gracefully. 🦢
January 4, 2026 at 4:40 PM
-2C by the Union Canal in Edinburgh.
Only a swan could fall through broken ice so gracefully. 🦢
Only a swan could fall through broken ice so gracefully. 🦢
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New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output.
Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
January 2, 2026 at 12:23 PM
New record year for renewable electricity in Britain - thanks especially to strong solar output.
Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Read our analysis of 2025 here www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
January 5, 2026 at 7:26 AM
The Utrecht morning rush hour in the snow did not disappoint!
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New exciting update to chartle.cc 📈
You can now use the *Explore data* mode after finishing a game to find out what all the other grey lines represent.
This has been requested by many of you, thanks for all the feedback! Let us know what you think!
You can now use the *Explore data* mode after finishing a game to find out what all the other grey lines represent.
This has been requested by many of you, thanks for all the feedback! Let us know what you think!
Chartle - A daily chart game
Guess the country in red by analysing today's chart
chartle.cc
January 5, 2026 at 11:17 AM
New exciting update to chartle.cc 📈
You can now use the *Explore data* mode after finishing a game to find out what all the other grey lines represent.
This has been requested by many of you, thanks for all the feedback! Let us know what you think!
You can now use the *Explore data* mode after finishing a game to find out what all the other grey lines represent.
This has been requested by many of you, thanks for all the feedback! Let us know what you think!
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
December 31, 2024 at 12:21 PM
31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?
December 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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[24/24] 🎄📊 For the last riddle of this calendar, I choose a movie that quite well reflect my feelings for all of you who played along!
December 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
[24/24] 🎄📊 For the last riddle of this calendar, I choose a movie that quite well reflect my feelings for all of you who played along!
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The last Weekly Chart of 2025 is here! 📊 ✨ Which visualizations did our users create this year, when, and how many? Read on to find out. 👇
www.datawrapper.de/blog/popular...
www.datawrapper.de/blog/popular...
Which chart types did our users create in 2025? | Datawrapper Blog
In this Weekly Chart, we look back on visualizations created by our users this year.
www.datawrapper.de
December 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The last Weekly Chart of 2025 is here! 📊 ✨ Which visualizations did our users create this year, when, and how many? Read on to find out. 👇
www.datawrapper.de/blog/popular...
www.datawrapper.de/blog/popular...
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Fascinating post about the hard and sometimes weird choices you make to show the phenomena you want explore or illustrate 💯
Want a look behind the scenes? People are curious about how we come up with (good) ideas at Voilà:. Here are five examples in a blog post. 🐝 📊
Eureka! 5 information design solutions - Voilà:
Where do good ideas come from? How do they emerge? And most importantly, when? Here is a our set of creative choices.
chezvoila.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Fascinating post about the hard and sometimes weird choices you make to show the phenomena you want explore or illustrate 💯
Want a look behind the scenes? People are curious about how we come up with (good) ideas at Voilà:. Here are five examples in a blog post. 🐝 📊
Eureka! 5 information design solutions - Voilà:
Where do good ideas come from? How do they emerge? And most importantly, when? Here is a our set of creative choices.
chezvoila.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Want a look behind the scenes? People are curious about how we come up with (good) ideas at Voilà:. Here are five examples in a blog post. 🐝 📊
I'm working on some internal business analysis right now and it only increases my respect for all the hard work of collecting, organizing and cleaning the data... Never take it for granted when you visualize it!
December 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I'm working on some internal business analysis right now and it only increases my respect for all the hard work of collecting, organizing and cleaning the data... Never take it for granted when you visualize it!
Absolutely love to find raw talent like this. 66 followers on here, it has to go up!
Thanks to @puddingviz.bsky.social and congrats to Damar for his win at the Pudding Cup! 📊
Thanks to @puddingviz.bsky.social and congrats to Damar for his win at the Pudding Cup! 📊
finally published this visual article on dithering (part 1)!
I had so much fun and learned a lot while making this. not only about dithering, but also about @threejs.org shaders.
as usual, animated with @animejs.com
enjoy!
🔗 visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...
I had so much fun and learned a lot while making this. not only about dithering, but also about @threejs.org shaders.
as usual, animated with @animejs.com
enjoy!
🔗 visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...
December 21, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Absolutely love to find raw talent like this. 66 followers on here, it has to go up!
Thanks to @puddingviz.bsky.social and congrats to Damar for his win at the Pudding Cup! 📊
Thanks to @puddingviz.bsky.social and congrats to Damar for his win at the Pudding Cup! 📊
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According to our 2024 SOTI Survey, what do you think were the top 3 most used tools?
The 2025 survey is now open, share your unique perspective by January 15, 2026: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...
1. PowerBI, Figma, R
2. Excel, Tableau, R
3. D3, Google Sheets, Tableau
4. Excel, Pen & Paper, PPT
The 2025 survey is now open, share your unique perspective by January 15, 2026: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...
1. PowerBI, Figma, R
2. Excel, Tableau, R
3. D3, Google Sheets, Tableau
4. Excel, Pen & Paper, PPT
DVS State of the Industry Survey - 2025
www.surveyhero.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:42 PM
According to our 2024 SOTI Survey, what do you think were the top 3 most used tools?
The 2025 survey is now open, share your unique perspective by January 15, 2026: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...
1. PowerBI, Figma, R
2. Excel, Tableau, R
3. D3, Google Sheets, Tableau
4. Excel, Pen & Paper, PPT
The 2025 survey is now open, share your unique perspective by January 15, 2026: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...
1. PowerBI, Figma, R
2. Excel, Tableau, R
3. D3, Google Sheets, Tableau
4. Excel, Pen & Paper, PPT
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HOW COOL IS THIS TABLE?!
The table on the left shows my results for the first three tournaments I've played in Learned League. The green highlights are lightly-rendered bars.
I drew the bars in the table on the right in case you don't see them on the left.
Great way to augment a table.
The table on the left shows my results for the first three tournaments I've played in Learned League. The green highlights are lightly-rendered bars.
I drew the bars in the table on the right in case you don't see them on the left.
Great way to augment a table.
December 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
HOW COOL IS THIS TABLE?!
The table on the left shows my results for the first three tournaments I've played in Learned League. The green highlights are lightly-rendered bars.
I drew the bars in the table on the right in case you don't see them on the left.
Great way to augment a table.
The table on the left shows my results for the first three tournaments I've played in Learned League. The green highlights are lightly-rendered bars.
I drew the bars in the table on the right in case you don't see them on the left.
Great way to augment a table.
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And one last tip: repost > like.
If you want more people to see a post you enjoy, repost, repost, repost.
"Likes" signal de poster you enjoyed their post, but they don't promote it. Reposting means you share it with your own followers and feeds, amplifying reach.
If you want more people to see a post you enjoy, repost, repost, repost.
"Likes" signal de poster you enjoyed their post, but they don't promote it. Reposting means you share it with your own followers and feeds, amplifying reach.
December 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
And one last tip: repost > like.
If you want more people to see a post you enjoy, repost, repost, repost.
"Likes" signal de poster you enjoyed their post, but they don't promote it. Reposting means you share it with your own followers and feeds, amplifying reach.
If you want more people to see a post you enjoy, repost, repost, repost.
"Likes" signal de poster you enjoyed their post, but they don't promote it. Reposting means you share it with your own followers and feeds, amplifying reach.
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Folks, here's a link to my newsletter where I express my exasperation with LinkedIn.
Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work.
mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...
Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work.
mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...
I'm exasperated with LinkedIn. How about you?
mailchi.mp
December 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Folks, here's a link to my newsletter where I express my exasperation with LinkedIn.
Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work.
mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...
Maybe we can get a critical mass of data viz people to agree to put in real effort to make BlueSky social work.
mailchi.mp/b0a153ba5843...
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
December 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Elon's little serfs are quite literally begging journalists to come back because every publicly available source of data shows people have fled the platform and young people won't use it.
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
They are literally begging regular people to come back. Don't do it! It is a website by and for actual Nazis!
Elegant design. Source unclear, perhaps the poster?
(CW: lazy alt text alert)
(CW: lazy alt text alert)
Here’s the demographic breakdown of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s district.
Elon Musk says Omar was “literally voted into Congress by a large group of people from Somalia.”
Omar’s district is 2.9% Somali-American.
Elon Musk says Omar was “literally voted into Congress by a large group of people from Somalia.”
Omar’s district is 2.9% Somali-American.
December 14, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Elegant design. Source unclear, perhaps the poster?
(CW: lazy alt text alert)
(CW: lazy alt text alert)
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Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.