Gregor Aisch
@driven-by-data.net
Senior Visual Data Journalist at @zeit.de. Co-founder and former CTO of @datawrapper.de. Former @nytimes.com graphics editor #datajournalism #graphics #maps #cartography (he/him)
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Gregor Aisch
@driven-by-data.net
· May 13
Last week I had the pleasure of finally releasing the #SveltePlot alpha version during my talk at the #SvelteSummit in Barcelona. It's a new visualization framework for @svelte.dev that I've been working on for the past 18 months, so it's about time for a 🧵
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I'm launching something for us. Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world.
Everything feels like A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
Everything feels like A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
Not-Ship
A newsletter charting the age of uncertainty
www.not-ship.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I'm launching something for us. Not-Ship: a newsletter using data and visuals to navigate our turbulent world.
Everything feels like A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
Everything feels like A LOT lately. It's all so uncertain. And the way I try to make sense of things is with data. So, that's what Not-Ship is all about. Come chart the chaos with me.
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Here is a no-paywall link to today's story
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
A Costly Radio System Faltered When Texas Needed It Most
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Here is a no-paywall link to today's story
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
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Was surprised to see that, even though CSS Grid isn't a new feature, it's still high on the list of things devs find confusing, so wrote a post about it.
I focus on a new mental model I think is helpful. Let me know what you think!
webkit.org/blog/17474/c...
I focus on a new mental model I think is helpful. Let me know what you think!
webkit.org/blog/17474/c...
CSS Grid: A helpful mental model and the power of grid lines
Grid is a powerful, flexible tool that brings complex layouts to life.
webkit.org
October 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Was surprised to see that, even though CSS Grid isn't a new feature, it's still high on the list of things devs find confusing, so wrote a post about it.
I focus on a new mental model I think is helpful. Let me know what you think!
webkit.org/blog/17474/c...
I focus on a new mental model I think is helpful. Let me know what you think!
webkit.org/blog/17474/c...
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NEW: Since the start of the Ukraine invasion, 17 out of 27 EU nations have spent more on Russian oil and gas than they’ve sent to Ukraine in aid!
Despite an oil embargo, Europe is still sending £1bn a month on Russian energy.
This week’s column:
www.thetimes.com/article/dd9d...
Despite an oil embargo, Europe is still sending £1bn a month on Russian energy.
This week’s column:
www.thetimes.com/article/dd9d...
September 28, 2025 at 10:47 AM
NEW: Since the start of the Ukraine invasion, 17 out of 27 EU nations have spent more on Russian oil and gas than they’ve sent to Ukraine in aid!
Despite an oil embargo, Europe is still sending £1bn a month on Russian energy.
This week’s column:
www.thetimes.com/article/dd9d...
Despite an oil embargo, Europe is still sending £1bn a month on Russian energy.
This week’s column:
www.thetimes.com/article/dd9d...
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When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This seems to be a good moment to cancel that Disney+ subscription. I didn’t watch two seasons of brave rebels fighting the evil Empire only to see real world media conglomerates bowing to government pressure at the slightest hint…
September 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This seems to be a good moment to cancel that Disney+ subscription. I didn’t watch two seasons of brave rebels fighting the evil Empire only to see real world media conglomerates bowing to government pressure at the slightest hint…
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September 14, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Israel ordered everyone in Gaza City to leave. Satellite images show how hard that’s going to be. nyti.ms/3VMbtp7
September 12, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Israel ordered everyone in Gaza City to leave. Satellite images show how hard that’s going to be. nyti.ms/3VMbtp7
For my latest Weekly Chart at @datawrapper.de I tried a different way of mapping destruction in Gaza using OSM buildings. www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...
September 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
For my latest Weekly Chart at @datawrapper.de I tried a different way of mapping destruction in Gaza using OSM buildings. www.datawrapper.de/blog/mapping...
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Have you ever wanted to map satellite data like temperature, cloud cover, and vegetation with GDAL? I wrote a tutorial for that! medium.com/@robsimmon/a...
A Gentle Introduction to GDAL Part 6.1: Visualizing Data
You may be wondering what I mean by “data visualization with GDAL”? After all, aren’t satellites images and maps — prominently featured in…
medium.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Have you ever wanted to map satellite data like temperature, cloud cover, and vegetation with GDAL? I wrote a tutorial for that! medium.com/@robsimmon/a...
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Gaza represents not some distant and inevitable tragedy, but our own moral and practical failing,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. “We have blood on our hands.”
“Gaza represents not some distant and inevitable tragedy, but our own moral and practical failing,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. “We have blood on our hands.”
Opinion | Answering My Critics About the War in Gaza
Why I believe American support for Israel in this conflict is a moral and practical failure.
nyti.ms
August 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Gaza represents not some distant and inevitable tragedy, but our own moral and practical failing,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. “We have blood on our hands.”
“Gaza represents not some distant and inevitable tragedy, but our own moral and practical failing,” our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. “We have blood on our hands.”
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Absolutely devastating but no longer headline news…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Wildfires rage across southern Europe as temperatures pass 40C
The heatwave has led to red alerts being issued in parts of Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and the Balkans.
www.bbc.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Absolutely devastating but no longer headline news…
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
I've been playing with the new Observable Notebooks 2.0 over the past days and I'm amazed. While still a preview I think it's already a serious alternative to R or Jupyter notebooks. Love that it works locally now and that notebooks are just HTML files with vanilla JS observablehq.com/notebook-kit/
Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable
observablehq.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I've been playing with the new Observable Notebooks 2.0 over the past days and I'm amazed. While still a preview I think it's already a serious alternative to R or Jupyter notebooks. Love that it works locally now and that notebooks are just HTML files with vanilla JS observablehq.com/notebook-kit/
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„In March, Israel imposed an aid blockade on Gaza in an effort to squeeze concessions from Hamas; it also said, without providing evidence, that the militant group was systematically stealing the supplies. That (...) caused widespread hunger among Gazans.“ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?
Less food is going into Gaza now than during most other times in the war. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while heading toward aid sites. Many others are suffering from serious malnutrition,...
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
„In March, Israel imposed an aid blockade on Gaza in an effort to squeeze concessions from Hamas; it also said, without providing evidence, that the militant group was systematically stealing the supplies. That (...) caused widespread hunger among Gazans.“ www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/
Observable Notebooks 2.0 Technology Preview | Observable
observablehq.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Notebooks 2.0 is here! 📓🔮 Previewing today:
Notebook Kit, an open file format for notebooks with open-source tooling for generating static sites; and
Observable Desktop, a macOS desktop application for editing notebooks as local files, with a radical new approach to AI. observablehq.com/notebooks/2/
*Huge* new feature in Datawrapper! You can now create locator maps using the globe (aka orthographic) projection. Makes small scale maps so much better compared to the Mercator projection! All thanks to the amazing folks at @datawrapper.de and @maplibre.org ❤️
www.datawrapper.de/blog/new-glo...
www.datawrapper.de/blog/new-glo...
New: Globe projection in locator maps | Datawrapper Blog
Create locator maps using a globe projection
www.datawrapper.de
July 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
*Huge* new feature in Datawrapper! You can now create locator maps using the globe (aka orthographic) projection. Makes small scale maps so much better compared to the Mercator projection! All thanks to the amazing folks at @datawrapper.de and @maplibre.org ❤️
www.datawrapper.de/blog/new-glo...
www.datawrapper.de/blog/new-glo...
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Extreme heat doesn’t receive the same “round-the-clock” coverage as wildfires, hurricanes, or floods. Yet, “Of all the climate disasters we face, heat is the most urgent, and its day-to-day effects are also the trickiest to talk about.” By Meg Bernhard @columjournreview.bsky.social
What Makes Heat So Hard to Cover?
For journalists, the most urgent climate disaster is also the trickiest to report on.
buff.ly
July 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Extreme heat doesn’t receive the same “round-the-clock” coverage as wildfires, hurricanes, or floods. Yet, “Of all the climate disasters we face, heat is the most urgent, and its day-to-day effects are also the trickiest to talk about.” By Meg Bernhard @columjournreview.bsky.social
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Trump’s approval rating on deportations is currently lower than his approval on the economy
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
July 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Trump’s approval rating on deportations is currently lower than his approval on the economy
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/data
No map or visualization can tell you how hot 37°C feels like. Walking the streets in Berlin today feels like slowly dying. Spain and Portugal have suffered from this heat wave all week, and I can’t even begin to imagine temperatures in China, India, Iran, etc. www.zeit.de/wissen/2025-...
Hitze in Europa: Hier ist die Hitze am extremsten
Selten war es in ganz Europa so früh so heiß. Für Millionen Menschen wird das zu einer wiederkehrenden Gefahr. Daten zeigen, welche Regionen besonders betroffen sind.
www.zeit.de
July 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
No map or visualization can tell you how hot 37°C feels like. Walking the streets in Berlin today feels like slowly dying. Spain and Portugal have suffered from this heat wave all week, and I can’t even begin to imagine temperatures in China, India, Iran, etc. www.zeit.de/wissen/2025-...
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The representative electoral statistics show how often each demographic group voted for different parties in the German federal election. This year, I’ve prepared the data as radar charts. What do you think: does this type of chart work well for this kind of data? www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
June 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The representative electoral statistics show how often each demographic group voted for different parties in the German federal election. This year, I’ve prepared the data as radar charts. What do you think: does this type of chart work well for this kind of data? www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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Multiple tornadoes tore across parts of South Dakota on Saturday.
June 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Multiple tornadoes tore across parts of South Dakota on Saturday.
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So excited to have this out!
I’ve been working on The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century for months. We polled over 500 major directors, actors, and other people in and around Hollywood to find out the best films released since 2000. You’re gonna be obsessed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I’ve been working on The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century for months. We polled over 500 major directors, actors, and other people in and around Hollywood to find out the best films released since 2000. You’re gonna be obsessed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century (Gift Article)
More than 500 influential directors, actors and other notable names in Hollywood and around the world voted on the best films released since Jan. 1, 2000. See how their ballots stacked up.
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
So excited to have this out!
I’ve been working on The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century for months. We polled over 500 major directors, actors, and other people in and around Hollywood to find out the best films released since 2000. You’re gonna be obsessed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I’ve been working on The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century for months. We polled over 500 major directors, actors, and other people in and around Hollywood to find out the best films released since 2000. You’re gonna be obsessed. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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War es auf der Erde schonmal so warm wie jetzt? Ja. Aber dafür muss man verdammt weit zurückblicken. @driven-by-data.net und ich haben uns 485 Millionen Jahre Klimageschichte angeschaut- von den Dinosauriern bis zum iPhone.
June 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
War es auf der Erde schonmal so warm wie jetzt? Ja. Aber dafür muss man verdammt weit zurückblicken. @driven-by-data.net und ich haben uns 485 Millionen Jahre Klimageschichte angeschaut- von den Dinosauriern bis zum iPhone.
People tell me nobody wants to look at climate curves anymore, yet here we are!!! Please enjoy our interactive journey through 485 million years of climate history and dive into the fascinating and important work of paleoclimate scientists.
🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...
🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...
June 20, 2025 at 9:32 AM
People tell me nobody wants to look at climate curves anymore, yet here we are!!! Please enjoy our interactive journey through 485 million years of climate history and dive into the fascinating and important work of paleoclimate scientists.
🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...
🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/umwel...
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Wow! It's a great honor to receive this Information is Beautiful Award.
Thanks to @datawrapper.de for letting me inspire people. And thanks to everyone else who's contributing to the lovely #dataviz community!
Find all #IIBAwards winners here: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/680-ann...
Thanks to @datawrapper.de for letting me inspire people. And thanks to everyone else who's contributing to the lovely #dataviz community!
Find all #IIBAwards winners here: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/680-ann...
June 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Wow! It's a great honor to receive this Information is Beautiful Award.
Thanks to @datawrapper.de for letting me inspire people. And thanks to everyone else who's contributing to the lovely #dataviz community!
Find all #IIBAwards winners here: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/680-ann...
Thanks to @datawrapper.de for letting me inspire people. And thanks to everyone else who's contributing to the lovely #dataviz community!
Find all #IIBAwards winners here: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/680-ann...