Elijah Meeks
@elijahmeeks.bsky.social
Principal Engineer at Confluent. Ex-Noteable, Apple, Netflix, Stanford. I write sometimes and talk too much.
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Elijah Meeks
@elijahmeeks.bsky.social
· Nov 6
Current | Visualization in Motion: How to Create Effective Data Visualization with Real-Time Data
Is your data visualization optimized for your real-time data? Likely not. Every company needs a real-time data strategy but even when they have one, they often neglect to invest in charting solutions ...
current.confluent.io
ICYMI I gave a talk about realtime #dataviz and how we need to develop a better understanding of encodings that are more suited to realtime (like animation) as well as strive for data views that look and act different than those for batch data.
current.confluent.io/2024-session...
current.confluent.io/2024-session...
Can someone please explain to me what the effect size of being an incumbent across those categories means? What is the range of, say, the top orange bar expressing? Or, better yet, point me at the dataset?
October 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Can someone please explain to me what the effect size of being an incumbent across those categories means? What is the range of, say, the top orange bar expressing? Or, better yet, point me at the dataset?
I used #matterjs to do a bit of data visualization using physical metaphors and I loved it. We should all do more #datavisualization with physics engines, especially for systems like this.
Also, if you want to learn about watermarks, give it a try.
flink-watermarks.wtf
Also, if you want to learn about watermarks, give it a try.
flink-watermarks.wtf
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I used #matterjs to do a bit of data visualization using physical metaphors and I loved it. We should all do more #datavisualization with physics engines, especially for systems like this.
Also, if you want to learn about watermarks, give it a try.
flink-watermarks.wtf
Also, if you want to learn about watermarks, give it a try.
flink-watermarks.wtf
Oh yeah I made a new thing explaining watermarks in Apache Flink.
If you’ve ever struggled with Apache Flink watermarks, this is for you.
@rmoff.net, @elijahmeeks.bsky.social, and @alpinegizmo.bsky.social built a scrollytelling guide that makes sense of it all.
Try it now ⬇️
@rmoff.net, @elijahmeeks.bsky.social, and @alpinegizmo.bsky.social built a scrollytelling guide that makes sense of it all.
Try it now ⬇️
Have you ever found yourself thinking…Flink Watermarks…WTF?
🔥 This new tool might be for you :)
It's a hands-on, scrollytelling walkthrough of what watermarks in #ApacheFlink are, why they matter, and how to use them.
Try it out: flink-watermarks.wtf
#dataBS
🔥 This new tool might be for you :)
It's a hands-on, scrollytelling walkthrough of what watermarks in #ApacheFlink are, why they matter, and how to use them.
Try it out: flink-watermarks.wtf
#dataBS
October 20, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Oh yeah I made a new thing explaining watermarks in Apache Flink.
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We are trying to create a list of in-copyright novels that contain maps. If you know of some, drop them in the thread below! 🧵👇
August 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
We are trying to create a list of in-copyright novels that contain maps. If you know of some, drop them in the thread below! 🧵👇
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Enjoying @nadiehbremer.com's CHART (and the sun 😁). It's a great book — Nadieh's work is amazing anyways, and I love how generously she shares her tricks and recipes. www.routledge.com/CHART-Design...
June 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Enjoying @nadiehbremer.com's CHART (and the sun 😁). It's a great book — Nadieh's work is amazing anyways, and I love how generously she shares her tricks and recipes. www.routledge.com/CHART-Design...
Distinct color names are important for data visualization when you're presenting so that you don't have someone say "What about the green bar" and you have to say "You mean this green" and they say "No the other green."
meodai.github.io/color-name-a...
meodai.github.io/color-name-a...
Color Name API
Get human-readable color names from hex codes using our simple REST API.
meodai.github.io
June 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Distinct color names are important for data visualization when you're presenting so that you don't have someone say "What about the green bar" and you have to say "You mean this green" and they say "No the other green."
meodai.github.io/color-name-a...
meodai.github.io/color-name-a...
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Ooh - some great #dataviz resources in here
Introducing VizDex!
An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.
vizdexproject.com
An ever-growing library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.
vizdexproject.com
VizDex
A library of personal and independent blogs and newsletters dedicated to data visualization.
vizdexproject.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ooh - some great #dataviz resources in here
The older I get the more I think @danz68.bsky.social might have been right about everything.
June 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The older I get the more I think @danz68.bsky.social might have been right about everything.
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OMG #visualized will be back!! Visualized share.google/tOOaw9XSEVa4...
Visualized
share.google
June 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
OMG #visualized will be back!! Visualized share.google/tOOaw9XSEVa4...
So wild to me that the most unimaginative logical positivists (Silicon Valley tech companies) created the most pure form of postmodern text (LLMs) that’s hated by self-identified postmodernists (academics) because it problemitizes objective truth (something no one believes in anymore). #hermeneutics
June 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
So wild to me that the most unimaginative logical positivists (Silicon Valley tech companies) created the most pure form of postmodern text (LLMs) that’s hated by self-identified postmodernists (academics) because it problemitizes objective truth (something no one believes in anymore). #hermeneutics
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Thread: 1. Signal was a photo and army magazine published by the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany from 1940 through 1945. These maps and infographics are from the Hungarian edition.
May 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Thread: 1. Signal was a photo and army magazine published by the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany from 1940 through 1945. These maps and infographics are from the Hungarian edition.
Sankey diagrams are getting perilously close to being renamed online relationship success diagrams.
May 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sankey diagrams are getting perilously close to being renamed online relationship success diagrams.
Reminder that the pope is catholic and west point is part of the military-industrial complex. Of course a military academy for producing military leaders of an imperial military is supposed to indoctrinate what do you think indoctrination is? What do words even mean any more?
May 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reminder that the pope is catholic and west point is part of the military-industrial complex. Of course a military academy for producing military leaders of an imperial military is supposed to indoctrinate what do you think indoctrination is? What do words even mean any more?
For #EarthDay I made a subway map version of the San Lorenzo River watershed. The San Lorenzo River is my local river here in Santa Cruz and I've always felt a greater connection to nature and the Earth when I've created abstract representations of its systems.
April 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
For #EarthDay I made a subway map version of the San Lorenzo River watershed. The San Lorenzo River is my local river here in Santa Cruz and I've always felt a greater connection to nature and the Earth when I've created abstract representations of its systems.
I love that we accept charts like the one on the left at face value when the one on the right exist.
April 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I love that we accept charts like the one on the left at face value when the one on the right exist.
Looks like I'm going to get to revisit design principles for animated #dataviz. Any good resources out there that folks rely on for animation in data visualization?
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
April 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Looks like I'm going to get to revisit design principles for animated #dataviz. Any good resources out there that folks rely on for animation in data visualization?
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
emeeks.github.io/gestaltdatav...
Github is developing the #dataviz section of their design system. I particularly like the practical approach taken in the color section where it acknowledges that traditional accessibility issues simply cannot be addressed in viz using non-viz UI approaches.
primer.style/product/ui-p...
primer.style/product/ui-p...
Data visualization
Data visualizations are helpful tools for conveying complex data in an engaging and understandable way. They're commonly used in dashboards and insights pages.
primer.style
April 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Github is developing the #dataviz section of their design system. I particularly like the practical approach taken in the color section where it acknowledges that traditional accessibility issues simply cannot be addressed in viz using non-viz UI approaches.
primer.style/product/ui-p...
primer.style/product/ui-p...
Okay, I believe the evidence that we can't make a $600 iPhone in the United States but now you're telling me we can't affordably make a $40,000 bag?
April 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Okay, I believe the evidence that we can't make a $600 iPhone in the United States but now you're telling me we can't affordably make a $40,000 bag?
Please if you're an academic thinking about how you might restore academia after this, take the time to see how university's hollowing themselves out (grade inflation, PhD overproduction, administrative bloat, taking advantage of adjuncts, investment banking) made them so vulnerable to this attack.
April 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Please if you're an academic thinking about how you might restore academia after this, take the time to see how university's hollowing themselves out (grade inflation, PhD overproduction, administrative bloat, taking advantage of adjuncts, investment banking) made them so vulnerable to this attack.
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It's clear dataviz is at an inflection point. Essays by @shirleywu.studio and @moritzstefaner.bsky.social have been thought provoking in many ways, but haven't discussed dataviz from a business perspective. Let's discuss!
Full essay: www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-d...
Full essay: www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-d...
The "Dashboard" is Broken. The value of dashboards has eroded. When executives hear the word "dashboard" today, they envision standard charts in BI platforms — obligatory elements for meetings rather than catalysts for insight. www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-d...
April 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's clear dataviz is at an inflection point. Essays by @shirleywu.studio and @moritzstefaner.bsky.social have been thought provoking in many ways, but haven't discussed dataviz from a business perspective. Let's discuss!
Full essay: www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-d...
Full essay: www.linkedin.com/pulse/word-d...
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Gain hands-on experience and learn data viz best practices at Outlier 2025. Early bird rates end on April 30. Register here: buff.ly/bUQHpFY
April 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Gain hands-on experience and learn data viz best practices at Outlier 2025. Early bird rates end on April 30. Register here: buff.ly/bUQHpFY
Why does @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy randomize the color of the layer when you load it? ArcGIS used to do this, too, right? Is it just a sort of hack to prevent the same color being used? But it's unpredictable. And weird. And jarring. Who decided it should happen this way?
April 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Why does @qgis.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy randomize the color of the layer when you load it? ArcGIS used to do this, too, right? Is it just a sort of hack to prevent the same color being used? But it's unpredictable. And weird. And jarring. Who decided it should happen this way?
I remember talking to @jasonforrest.bsky.social six years ago about making a magazine and then working with Medium and all the editing and it's so amazing to see how he grew it from nothing to this great resource for the #dataviz community! Thank you, Jason!
nightingaledvs.com/my-6-years-a...
nightingaledvs.com/my-6-years-a...
My 6 Years at Nightingale: 1,443 Digital Articles, 5 Print Magazines, and a Whole Lot of Love, Nightingale
This article will mark my last one as the Editor-in-Chief of Nightingale. It's time for me to pass the torch to our editorial team and reveal my master plan!
nightingaledvs.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I remember talking to @jasonforrest.bsky.social six years ago about making a magazine and then working with Medium and all the editing and it's so amazing to see how he grew it from nothing to this great resource for the #dataviz community! Thank you, Jason!
nightingaledvs.com/my-6-years-a...
nightingaledvs.com/my-6-years-a...
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behold the CONNECTED SPLATTERPIE
kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair
kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair
March 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
behold the CONNECTED SPLATTERPIE
kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair
kneel before my works, ye mighty, and despair