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Robert Simmon
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Data Visualization. Ex-Planet & NASA Earth Observatory. Blue Marble, Earth at Night, color, cartography, occasionally skewed views of Earth. Looking for a job.
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A new stamp of a seminal map by Dr Okan Tüysüz and Dr Aral Okay in 1999 will soon be published in Turkey.
@judithgeology.bsky.social FYI
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Spectacular clouds tonight!
November 15, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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It's going to be an awesome day.
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The coffee is “The Women’s Initiative” from Zocalo.
November 14, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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shipped a fat stack of maps today (and some books too!)

Get yours at visionarypress.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
One under-appreciated limitation of rainbow color maps—even improved versions like Turbo—is that they become even more distorted when printed. And RGB documents are often converted to CMYK, even for display on the web.

📊🎨 #dataviz #color
November 13, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Gigantic jet TLE above Mexico (crop) - From Simeon Schmauß (stim3on.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2rhxUhJ
November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Happy Exploding Whale Day to all those who celebrate! #ExplodingWhale www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...
Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered!
YouTube video by KATU News
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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Come join us In-person or live-streamed for this fascinating discussion with @mhernandez.bsky.social on his work and the crisis in data distrust. www.eventbrite.com/e/dvc-presen... Also featuring @palewi.re, @jeffisawesome.bsky.social, Jen Ray, Kelsey Nanan, and David Rittenhouse!!!
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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#30DayMapChallenge | Day 10 Air | This is an exploratory bivariate map illustrating global temperature patterns based on WorldClim bioclimatic variables: annual mean temperature (BIO-1) and annual temperature range (BIO-7). Read more: cartoguophy.com/maps/global_...
November 10, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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The Australian Inland Mission's stunning cartographic work between 1922 and 1970. Link: attilabatorfy.substack.com/p/helping-th...
November 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The Planet satellite image I made for the Autódromo José Carlos Pace (Interlagos) is still being used by Wikipedia!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interla...
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This same area had another sequence that started in 11/2002 that continued into 2/2003. That sequence included a bunch of M3+ events and a few M4’s just to the southeast (not included on this list below).

Data from ds.iris.edu/ieb/index.ht...
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Another great dive into the history of #dataviz 📊
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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We at Esri look forward to seeing you at #AGU25, showcasing with our products & services not only how geospatial enables greater understanding of the world, but how we also perform good science as a member of the scientific community.
www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...
🧪 🦑 🌊 🌎 🌍 🌏 ⚒️ #geogsky #geogchat
November 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
TIL (via @mapsbyw.com ): @jscarto.bsky.social made a global basemap with NASA data: visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/14719...
November 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I just had to resolve a minor issue with the IRS, and the agent I worked with was fantastic, even during the shutdown!
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thoughts from Aravind Ravichandran as NASA (again) flirts with moving Earth observation to commercial data buys:

“Here is an underappreciated irony: commercial EO companies already depend on NASA's public infrastructure.”

newsletter.terrawatchspace.com/why-science-...
Why "Science-as-a-Service" Doesn't Work for Earth Science
There has been a lot of talk lately about whether commercial Earth observation (EO) companies could replace parts of NASA’s Earth science mission portfolio. With a new Administrator coming in, that de...
newsletter.terrawatchspace.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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#30DayMapChallenge 7 Nov - Accessibility

This map shows the weather stations operated by the Spanish Met Service and regions where there is a lack of stations.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀.

#aemet #geopandas #cartopy
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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"It represents a substantial 59% increase over the previous mapping of 188,555 kilometres of Roman roads. This is a very significant expansion of our mapped knowledge of ancient infrastructure."

#History #Maps #Roads #Roman
The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study
A new comprehensive map reveals the true scale of the ancient Roman road network – but it is still incomplete.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Computation+Journalism 2025 is a month away (December 11-12); we're finishing the last details of the symposium: cplusj2025.com Here's the full agenda: cplusj2025.com/agenda/ Join us! You can register here ($150 for professionals, $30 for students): events.miami.edu/event/cplusj...
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
900.
🎱🏒
November 6, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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✅ edits from print proof

MAPS FOR KIDS coming soon.
November 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Somehow I missed this BlackSky satellite image of Petra (as seen in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). From www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
November 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM