Danielle Alberti
@daniellealberti.bsky.social
Axios managing editor for data viz, previously at Pew Research
My favorite things are quilts, birds, books and maps
My favorite things are quilts, birds, books and maps
Our local Lao place is renowned for their object-relational mapping special.
November 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Our local Lao place is renowned for their object-relational mapping special.
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Really loved BEINGS by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social, with its intricate threading of lives and the speculative. Beautifully written and deeply perceptive! Available now! bookshop.org/p/books/bein...
October 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Really loved BEINGS by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social, with its intricate threading of lives and the speculative. Beautifully written and deeply perceptive! Available now! bookshop.org/p/books/bein...
Can someone out there who's more influential than me come up with a new word for "subtweeting" that happens outside of Twitter? And then make it a thing?
October 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Can someone out there who's more influential than me come up with a new word for "subtweeting" that happens outside of Twitter? And then make it a thing?
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@ilanaslightly.bsky.social's novel BEINGS in on sale today! @nytimes.com Book Review calls it "engaging, elegant... restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of ‘truth’ versus memory." Read the full review here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
Were They Abducted by Aliens, or Is Their Memory Just Spotty?
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September 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
@ilanaslightly.bsky.social's novel BEINGS in on sale today! @nytimes.com Book Review calls it "engaging, elegant... restrained, gentle reflection on the nature of ‘truth’ versus memory." Read the full review here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...
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BEINGS is out today! Writing can be a lonely project (and this book is about loneliness in many ways) but it is absolutely impossible, at least for me, without having a community of people who have your back (and this book is also, in many ways, about having, needing, or finding community).
September 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
BEINGS is out today! Writing can be a lonely project (and this book is about loneliness in many ways) but it is absolutely impossible, at least for me, without having a community of people who have your back (and this book is also, in many ways, about having, needing, or finding community).
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and on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is not achievable at all and 10 is easily achievable, how achievable do you believe this dream is for you
I dream of someday leaving my house without being asked to fill out a survey about my experience.
September 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
and on a scale from 1 to 10, where 1 is not achievable at all and 10 is easily achievable, how achievable do you believe this dream is for you
I dream of someday leaving my house without being asked to fill out a survey about my experience.
September 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I dream of someday leaving my house without being asked to fill out a survey about my experience.
I finished my first stained glass quilt this weekend.
September 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
I finished my first stained glass quilt this weekend.
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Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government
Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government
Trump believes the "Deep State," scientific establishment and federal bureaucracy were overdue for a purge.
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August 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Bonfire of expertise: Trump drives scientists, spies and soldiers out of government
The best part about taking a trip is coming home and watching your inbox fill up with pleas to fill out surveys and write reviews for the hotel, the restaurants, the airline, the train, the rideshares, the theatre tickets, the tours.
July 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
The best part about taking a trip is coming home and watching your inbox fill up with pleas to fill out surveys and write reviews for the hotel, the restaurants, the airline, the train, the rideshares, the theatre tickets, the tours.
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The hardest part of data journalism isn't writing code, it's everything else that takes a lot of experience & practice to do right — understanding your data's limitations, knowing what or who it leaves out, figuring out how it relates to other information.
A bot will never be good at that.
A bot will never be good at that.
June 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The hardest part of data journalism isn't writing code, it's everything else that takes a lot of experience & practice to do right — understanding your data's limitations, knowing what or who it leaves out, figuring out how it relates to other information.
A bot will never be good at that.
A bot will never be good at that.
When you do a survey that gives people that opportunity to think they're making a clever joke, they're going to make the clever joke. And then you look ridiculous when you report the results as though they are real.
June 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
When you do a survey that gives people that opportunity to think they're making a clever joke, they're going to make the clever joke. And then you look ridiculous when you report the results as though they are real.
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Absolutely stunning. You can say so much with a quilt.
I’ve been watching our kelp forests decline across my lifetime and it makes me very sad because kelp is cool as hell and supports a lot of marine life so I made a quilt about it.
June 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Absolutely stunning. You can say so much with a quilt.
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FOR THE WIDOWS / FOR THE DOLLS / TIL I'VE ROBBED THE PALACE HALLS / TIL ALL THESE SHERIFFS FALL / AH SHOOT SHOOT MASTER ARCHER / AH SHOOT SHOOT GOOD MAN
May 31, 2025 at 9:28 PM
FOR THE WIDOWS / FOR THE DOLLS / TIL I'VE ROBBED THE PALACE HALLS / TIL ALL THESE SHERIFFS FALL / AH SHOOT SHOOT MASTER ARCHER / AH SHOOT SHOOT GOOD MAN
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So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage
A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
dogetrack.info
May 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
Really really great peek into touring theatre and how they're managing DC.
Broadway shows keep the Kennedy Center going. But will they stay away?
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Broadway shows keep the Kennedy Center going. But will they stay away?
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Analysis | Broadway shows keep the Kennedy Center going. But will they stay away?
After Trump’s takeover, the Kennedy Center’s next season has fewer performances and two non-union tours -- and producers are divided about whether it will continue to be such a coveted venue.
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May 28, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Really really great peek into touring theatre and how they're managing DC.
Broadway shows keep the Kennedy Center going. But will they stay away?
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Broadway shows keep the Kennedy Center going. But will they stay away?
www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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i haven’t seen technology this forced on all of us in my life time. they’re trying to make it so we have no choice to use this shit
Google’s ‘universal AI assistant’ prototype can now do stuff for you — and you don’t even have to ask
Google’s universal AI assistant prototype just got a wild new feature
Are you ready for an AI bot that can just pipe up whenever it has something to say?
buff.ly
May 21, 2025 at 12:10 AM
i haven’t seen technology this forced on all of us in my life time. they’re trying to make it so we have no choice to use this shit
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I don't know that it's especially difficult to conceptualize the use case for surveys that gather data on a) alcohol consumption or b) internet usage among the American public
NEW: The DOGE team of President Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk says in an X post that a review of federal government surveys conducted by the Census Bureau has resulted in five being "terminated." I've asked the bureau's public information office for details about those five surveys
May 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I don't know that it's especially difficult to conceptualize the use case for surveys that gather data on a) alcohol consumption or b) internet usage among the American public
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Visual journalist @erindataviz.bsky.social shows just how much a $400m Qatari jet stacks up against other gifts received by modern presidents.
See the thread to see the #dataviz unfold 👇
See the thread to see the #dataviz unfold 👇
$400 million Air Force One gift would smash presidential records
U.S. presidents have been presented with gifts ranging from books to diamonds, and even animals.
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May 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Visual journalist @erindataviz.bsky.social shows just how much a $400m Qatari jet stacks up against other gifts received by modern presidents.
See the thread to see the #dataviz unfold 👇
See the thread to see the #dataviz unfold 👇
This morning while talking to my husband about our data viz palette, my 7-year-old got all snarky and asked “how could it possibly matter what color you use for charts?!?”
About 20 mins later, this is approximately where we ended up.
About 20 mins later, this is approximately where we ended up.
May 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This morning while talking to my husband about our data viz palette, my 7-year-old got all snarky and asked “how could it possibly matter what color you use for charts?!?”
About 20 mins later, this is approximately where we ended up.
About 20 mins later, this is approximately where we ended up.
Chart of the day from the incomparable @erindataviz.bsky.social @axios.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Chart of the day from the incomparable @erindataviz.bsky.social @axios.com
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26% of D.C.-area households with a government worker or contractor has experienced a layoff, firing or leave from that job. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
May 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
26% of D.C.-area households with a government worker or contractor has experienced a layoff, firing or leave from that job. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...