KatieAK

@data-is-blue.bsky.social

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Mostly a data viz lurker, with an offline life as a researcher and data visualisation practitioner. Mixing it up with my current project: https://www.mymatrescence.datais.blue/

The title "Our collection of duplo" builds in over a background that is a red duplo base board. The X axis appears "By decade of manufacture" with a column for each decade from the 1980s to 2020s. The caption "saved from my childhood" appears, and a 1 high duplo block appears in the 1980s and a 4 high block appears in the 1990s, with an annotation "Thanks Mum!". The caption changes to "Gifted to my daughter" and a 3 high block appears in the 2010s and a 2 high block in the 2020s, with the annotation "Thanks friends with older kids!".
The title "Alphabet song frequency of singing it:" with a legend for "Out loud" and "Inside my head" builds in, with x axis "time". The caption "When I first learnt it" appears, with a toy wooden block with letter A on it. A histogram made out of these blocks builds in, with each block appearing roughly in time with the song. The histogram shows that at first it was sung out loud and then gradually more inside my head. There is a sudden spike and the caption changes to "when I had a job alphabetising DVDs", and then continues building in. The last column is captioned "When I taught it to my daughter" and shows that it is now mostly sung out loud again.
The title "Comfort level with having blankets on my bed" builds in, with X axis "time". The chart plot looks like a top down view of a bed, with an area plot made of blankets. The leftmost point is high with an arrow pointing to it and caption "When she first came home". An annotation "Blankets are fine. Babies sleep in bassinets, right?" appears. The arrow bumps over very slightly to where the chart has dropped very quickly to a new baseline low, annotated "Not this baby!" and captioned "When we started cosleeping". The arrow bumps to midway point, where the blanket line starts to slope up and is captioned "Start of second winter". The arrow bumps nearly to the end, where the line slopes more sharply up and is captioned "Once I accepted she was a toddler now". It bumps to the very end, where the line is now back to the original height, and captioned "When she started asking for blankets". An annotation appears at this point: "Mumma, tuck me in".
Screenshot of google image search results for "Ingela P. Arrhenius cat", showing two almost identical children's book covers with an illustration of a cat. One book is titled "Where's the cat?" and the other is titled "Where's Mrs Cat?"
The title "my level of interest in tupperwear organisation" slides in above a topdown view of a container lid. A low line draws itself onto the lid with the caption "as a child playing in the kitchen". The line dips lower "as a teenager putting away the dishes" and a handwritten "meh" annotation appears. The line shifts higher and says "as an adult packing her own lunches". The line draws further and the caption changes to "as a woman in her third triemester of pregnancy" and line suddenly spikes extremely high, then settles to a new much higher baseline. An annotation appears on the spike: "I spent 3 evenings making a purpose build papier-mâché decoupaged tupperware organiser.
The title "carpark teas: number of times a comment from a complete stranger has left me sobbing in a carpark" washes on to the screen. A Y axis appears, labelled 0,1,2. The subtitle "when out in public with my newborn" appears followed by the text "She's so tiny! She can't be getting enough milk." in the 1 position on the axis. A big blue tear falls into place covering this text. Another comment appears above it - "Listen to that baby cry. It must be starving", and is covered by another tear. A second catergory "all other times in my life" shows next to the first. No comments or tears appear.
The title "Laundry: average weekly loads" appears. The caption "without baby" appears and a small bar of laundry powder draws in at the bottom left. The caption changes to "with baby" and a bar about 7 times larger draws in next to the first bar. The caption changes to "with baby + gastro" and a. bar of laundry power appears on the right, and draws itself all the way off the top of the screen.
The title "Monkey brain versus lizard brain" appears in light and dark pink, with two matching coloured dimpled semicircles appearing below. The pink monkey brain is on top and large, and the lizard brain is small and underneath, like a picture of a brain and amygdala. The caption "nullgravidia baseline" appears. The caption changes to "during pregnancy" and the monkey brain shrinks a little and the lizard brain grows a bit. "During childbirth" the two brains are the same medium size. "When my newborn wasn't gaining weight" the monkey brain becomes tiny and the lizard brain becomes huge. "When my infant was gaining weight" the monkey brain slowly grows while the lizard brain shrinks back to a medium size. "When our night sleep improved" the monkey brain grows a little bigger. "When my toddler started toddling" the lizard brain grows a little. "Then climbing (current baseline)" the lizard brain has another quick growth spurt.
The title "Average volume of liquid in my abandoned cups" appears, followed by the subtitle "Decaf tea". An empty mug with caption "before baby" appears, then a half full tea mug captioned "with newborn", and a nearly full mug captioned "with toddler". After a beat, the subtitle "Coffee" appears at the top, and three completely empty coffee cups appear next to each caption.
The title "Death anxiety" and subtitle "my level of concern about the consequences of my own mortality" appear. A grey sparkline with the caption "Before baby" begins to draw itself across the screen, with a flat trend. The line turns red and the caption 'after baby" appears. The line continues then goes sharply upwards, then draws off the screen at the new height. At the start of the red section the annotation "newborn haze" appears. The spike is annotated "Regained capacity to think about her future", and the top is annotated "made my will".
The title "blueberries as a proportion of" appears, above four empty plates. A single blueberry appears on the first plate, with the caption "my diet". A small wedge of blueberries and the caption "my household produce budget" appears on the second plate. Then the third plate is half filled with the caption "my toddler's diet". The final plate overflows with blueberries with the caption "ingredients in horrific gastro incidents'.
There is a divergent bar chart made of children's toy blocks. The left side is a short teal block pointing upwards and the right side is a long orange block pointing down. The title is "Relationship between sleep and my general level of patience". The caption "before baby" appears above the blue block and "after baby" above the orange block. The word patience is backtyped and the word "resilience" replaces it. This is backtyped and replaced with "executive function" with spelling errors.
The title "Enthusiasm for long car drives" appears. There is a black line across the middle of the screen. The label "Before baby" appears with a green car above the black line. The car drives upwards, stopping just below the title with a green bar below it. After a beat, the label "After baby" appears withe a red car below the red line. The red car drives downwards and off the screen, leaving a long red bar behind.
"Correlation between tracking my baby's data and my mental health" fades in. An X axis appears: birth to 1 year. A line appears, with the caption "Data tracking". The line shows a high peak at the start, with a slow decline and then a low plateau. Annotations appear, describing the types of data being tracked (sleep, nappies). The peak is annotated "Tracking everything! To the minute." As the line descends, the annotations show what is not being tracked anymore. The plateau is annotated "only weighing at check-ups". A second line appears, labelled "My mental wellbeing". The line is inversely shaped to the first line, showing a big drop that closely follows the peak of the data tracking line, and then a gradual increase as the other line descends. There is a pause, and then a third line appears, labelled "my confidence that my baby was going to be okay". It sits slightly above the mental wellbeing line, and follows the same curve.
A heading of "Relative position of my body and heart" appears. Body is written in purple and heart is written in red. The subheading "Before baby" appears, with an image of a purple circle with a red heart inside it. The subheading "After baby" appears below this, with the same circle and heart shapes, but now the red heart is to the left of the purple circle and there is a heart shaped hole in the circle.
A heading "Matrescence" fades in. Blue lines of thread draw themselves across a purple background one at a time, like a curve in a line chart. The text "There are as many experiences of becoming a mother as there are mothers in this world." appears and then fades away. A light purple line of thread draws itself across the screen. The text "This project is about mine" appears. The line above starts with a big dip, then bumpily rises upwards. An annotation saying "Our dog died when I was pregnant..." is shown at the top of the big dip in the line. The next dip is annotated "My newborn dropped from the 50th to the 3rd percentile...". The next rise is annotated "Starting to get the hang of things...". The line finishes at a high point and the final annotation reads "...and getting better at rolling with the punches."
Banner announcing that my work has been longlisted for the Information is Beautiful Awards 2024. The snippet image shows a detailed short of a colourful, stripy crochet scarf.
A long crochet scarf displayed on a dressmaker's mannequin. The scarf is striped in many colours, mainly blues, purples, and grey. There is no pattern to the stripes.