Washington Post Data Team @wpdatateam.bsky.social Stories, news and asides from the Washington Post's Data Team. We crunch the numbers to make sense of the news.
Downtown Josh Brown @downtownjoshbrown.bsky.social Investor, CEO, Dad
https://www.downtownjoshbrown.com/
Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social Econ professor at Michigan ● Senior fellow, Brookings ● Intro econ textbook author ● Chief economist & Deputy platypus https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com ● Find me: https://linktr.ee/justinwolfers
Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. According to Field of Schemes, "tech exec and Oakland A's fan" -- but more of an Oakland Ballers fan now.
Kerith Burke @kerithburke.bsky.social Warriors reporter for NBC Sports Bay Area. Valkyries host for KPIX. If you meet another Kerith, let me know.
NBA injury report: https://official.nba.com/nba-injury-report-2024-25-season/
Santiago Ortiz @moebio.bsky.social language data science https://moebio.com/
Jacque Schrag @jacqueschrag.com Journalist-engineer at Polygraph/The Pudding. Formerly Axios and CSIS. Builder of websites, data visualizations, and pixel cats. She/her.
Kevin Uhrmacher @kevinuhrm.bsky.social ProPublica deputy news apps editor
Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.com 🗺️ 📊 🗞️ Maps and visual stories for @startribune.com
Prevs: WSJ Graphics, UW-Madison cartography, reporter in Arizona
www.jakesteinberg.com
Marco Hernández @mhernandez.bsky.social Graphics Editor at The New York Times 🇺🇸| former Reuters 🇸🇬 | South China Morning Post 🇭🇰 | La Nacion 🇨🇷
Neal Agarwal @neal.fun making neal.fun
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Molly White @molly.wiki writes citationneeded.news • runs @web3isgoinggreat.com and @influence.citationneeded.news • tech researcher and cryptocurrency industry critic • software engineer • wikipedian
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Paul Ford @ftrain.bsky.social Aboard.com and Ftrain.com. Not steadily here. If you need me: ford@ftrain.com.
Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social derekthompson.substack.com
Lars @webpro.nl Independent developer/architect. JavaScript/TS, DX, automation, tooling, performance & OSS.
🏡 https://webpro.nl
🦋 https://webpro.blue
🧑💻 https://github.com/webpro
✂️ https://knip.dev
Jeremy Allen @jeremy-data.bsky.social I help @posit.co deliver the best R and Python data science solutions to the public sector in the US and elsewhere. Fan of cats coffee whiskey tea photography philosophy Atlanta - personal account. https://18chains.com/
Krishna Karra @krishnakarra.bsky.social satellite imagery analysis at bloomberg news
kkarra4@bloomberg.net
Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com Data visualisation designer at BBC News focusing on satellite data, climate change and cartography | previously at @esa.int | Co-founder of @chartle.cc - A daily chart game
Gina Trapani @ginatrapani.org internet person 👋 🏳️🌈 she/her
currently writing https://notetoself.studio 📓 @notetoself.studio
Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social Reporter and Computer Guy at WIRED. Previously: Bloomberg News, Center for Investigative Reporting, Gizmodo, eyebeamnyc.
Tips: dhruv_mehrotra@wired.com /@dmehro.89 on Signal
Tim Meko @timmeko.bsky.social Editor (and occasional builder) of graphics, maps and visual stories at the Washington Post.
M.G. Siegler @mgsiegler.com • Writer of spyglass.org
• Investor in some companies you've heard of (and many you haven't)
• Traveler with 👩🏻 & 👧🏼👶🏼
• #GoBlue 〽️🍻
Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social Raleigh. How might we visualize people, fairly and equitably? Data / dataviz / design / psychology / research geek. He / him. Chaotic good. Follows Fizzlethorpe Bristlebane. Design / research / writing at https://3iap.com.
Georgina Sturge @georginasturge.bsky.social Statistics expert and author of 'Sum of Us' (2025) and 'Bad Data' (2022). Research Affiliate at the Oxford Migration Observatory.
Formerly of the House of Commons Library. Now writing and podcasting on Substack https://georginasturge.substack.com/
Hannah Recht @hannahrecht.bsky.social Data journalist at AP Elections specializing in geography data.
Also Census, health policy, R and open source.
https://www.hrecht.com/
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Jeff Jackson @jeffjacksonnc.bsky.social Dad, Soldier, Attorney General for North Carolina
Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com noun | a reference source containing words alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, and etymologies
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Ahmad Barclay @bothness.bsky.social Architect // #DataViz storyteller // tech wrangler. Making useful stuff with #OpenData at the ONS. Occasionally #PalOpenMaps. Views my own. Portfolio @ ahmadbarclay.com
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Scott Reinhard @scottreinhard.bsky.social Artist, Graphic Designer and Cartographer
Marius Watz @mariuswatz.bsky.social Art and code since 1994. The time to resist is always.
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer.
Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology.
📍 London
🌱 maggieappleton.com
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
The DataFace @thedataface.bsky.social A digital agency, specializing in data viz 📈 thedataface.com
email: hello@thedataface.com
G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com i write the data-driven politics newsletter Strength In Numbers: gelliottmorris.com/subscribe
wrote a book by the same name wwnorton.com/books/Strength-in-Numbers
polling averages at @fiftyplusone.news
formerly @ 538 & The Economist. email, don't DM, me
Mona Chalabi @monachalabi.bsky.social 
Ryan Best @ryanabest.bsky.social visual + computational journalist, The Athletic
before: AP, FiveThirtyEight, Bloomberg Graphics
https://ryanabest.com/
Maya @may.as goddess of rot
https://may.as/
USAFacts @usafacts.org Making government data make sense. No partisanship, no bias — just facts as clear as blue skies.
🔗: usafacts.org
@fil.rezo.net @fil.rezo.net maps | data | code | journalism
#D3 & #Observable
👁️🗨️ https://observablehq.com/@fil
🌍 https://visionscarto.net/
Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social NFL analyst at ESPN.
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
terence @tterence.bsky.social smitten with #rstats · associate prof · political economy · the #rayverse's number one fan
Adriana Porter Felt @apf.bsky.social I like writing silly skeets, but that doesn't pay so I also make Google Chrome. mamá, Eng Director, volunteer at Second Harvest. 🇺🇲🇨🇷
Twitter: @__apf__
Kyle Walker @kylewalker.bsky.social Demographics | Geospatial | Data Science | Open Source
Reuben Fischer-Baum @reubenfb.bsky.social Senior Data Editor @yahoonews.com. Previously @washingtonpost.com, FiveThirtyEight, Deadspin (RIP). 2021-2022 Nieman fellow. I teach data visualization at RISD and Brown. See my work at reubenfb.com.
Ben Fry @benfry.com Running https://fathom.info since 2010 / spent 22 years building https://processing.org and supporting its community / sometimes seen teaching at https://mit.edu
Dan Nguyen @dancow.bsky.social
chicago area data journalist/scientist/wrangler, duolingo vietnamese language learner. the best chicago banh mi is at nhu lan on lawrence st
Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social @npr.org correspondent reporting on voting, the Census Bureau and the U.S. Postal Service • signal: hansi.01 • email: hwang@npr.org • newsletter: hansilowang.com/stay-in-touch
dan sinker @dansinker.com I make stuff. Currently Says Who and Rebel Spirit podcasts & writing at dansinker.com. Formerly Punk Planet (RIP), impeachment dot fyi, OpenNews, and much more. Always something new coming soon.
Todd Whitehead @crumpledjumper.bsky.social providing analysis and insight @synergysports.bsky.social and @sportradar.bsky.social and sharing basketball data in fun and eye-catching ways.
Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social New York Times journalist covering cities and urban policy for The Upshot. emily.badger@nytimes.com, ebadger.21 on Signal
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
Yuan Tang @terrytangyuan.xyz Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat AI | Open Source Leader at KServe, Argo, Kubeflow, Kubernetes, CNCF | Maintainer of XGBoost, TensorFlow | Keynote Speaker | Author | Technical Advisor
More info: http://terrytangyuan.xyz
We are hiring!
Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com Computational biologist, data scientist, occasional blogger | https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/ | https://clauswilke.com/ | Opinions are my own and do not represent UT Austin.
Susan Vanderplas @srvanderplas.bsky.social Statistics professor, #rstats user and reluctant #python user. I love #quarto, #quilting, #crossstitch, #snark, and #dogs. Research in #forensics, #visualization and #datavis, and #reproduceableresearch. 
Alison Presmanes Hill @apreshill.com apreshill.com
Product + Open Source + 1/3 of palmerpenguins team 🐧
Leading product @Pixeltable
Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com Visualisation and graphics @posit.co
Classic Generative Art Weirdo using 🖤 and R: http://thomaslinpedersen.art and http://deca.art/thomasp85
he/him
YouGov America @today.yougov.com YouGov gathers real opinions and behaviors from worldwide panel members to power insights into what the world thinks.
https://today.yougov.com/
Join our panel and share your opinion: account.yougov.com
For press inquiries: uspress@yougov.com
Prasanta Kumar Dutta @pkddapacific.bsky.social Information Experience Designer | Crafts visual stories from data at Reuters, Makes 🎨 art, takes 📸 pictures and collects 🐶 memes.
https://bit.ly/m/pkddapacific
Reuters Graphics @graphics.reuters.com Maps, charts, illustrations, animations, 3d models, data analysis and fun little easter eggs from your favorite graphics team. https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ 
nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
shri @shrikhalpada.dev creative coder, data nerd, big fan of liberalism
also into coffee shops, guitar noodling, hoops, and playing chess poorly
data viz: http://perthirtysix.com
creative coding: http://shrikhalpada.dev/projects
🌶️ ennifer 🌒aniel @jenniferdaniel.bsky.social Creator: Emoji Kitchen
Chair: Unicode Emoji Subcommittee🪑: 🥹🫠🫥🥲🫡🫢🫣😮💨😵💫😶🌫️❤️🔥❤️🩹🫦🫧🫗🪬 …
Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee @lamarrlemee.bsky.social Data reporter @latimes.com
John Muyskens @johnmuyskens.bsky.social Graphics reporter at The Washington Post focusing on climate change and environmental justice. Cambridge, MA
Walter Hickey @walthickey.bsky.social Executive Editor @sherwood.news, book whatyou.watch, writer numlock.com. Previously FiveThirtyEight and Business Insider. Pulitzer Prize winner.
Amanda Shendruk @ashendruk.com https://www.not-ship.com/
Explaining the world through data and design • Newsletter: Not-Ship • Formerly Washington Post, Quartz, the Guardian 🇨🇦 🏴
Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social Ph.D, stats lover/writer✍🏼, #statistics #scicomm #datascience #statstiktok 👩🏻💻 she/her
Interactive Data Lab @idl.uw.edu Visualization & data analysis research at the University of Washington. In a prior life was the Stanford Vis Group. https://idl.uw.edu
Development Seed @developmentseed.org Winning with Open Data
Lazaro Gamio @lazarogamio.bsky.social I make charts at the NYT. Sometimes they're good...
https://www.nytimes.com/by/lazaro-gamio
https://lazarogamio.com/
Katie Mack @astrokatie.com Cosmologist, pilot, author, connoisseur of cosmic catastrophes. TEDFellow, CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar. Domain verified through my personal astrokatie.com website. She/her. Dr.
Personal account; not speaking for employer or anyone else.
Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social Your Jeopardy! pal. Author of THE COMPLETE KENNECTIONS (http://bit.ly/4qUcbhK) and a bunch of other stuff.
Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com 'Peddler of Wheres,' job creator, Owner at The Map Center in Pawtucket RI- it's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
Post Graphics @postgraphics.bsky.social Graphics, visualizations, maps and more from The Washington Post.
Niko Kommenda 🍌🐟 @bananafish.bsky.social words, charts and maps in london. austrian. formerly wapo, ft, guardian
Craig Taylor @craigtaylorviz.bsky.social Creative data artist in the spatial industry. 
Atlas Guo @cartoguophy.bsky.social A Map Evangelist
CartoGuophy.com
Anthony Robinson @arobinson.bsky.social E. Willard and Ruby S. Miller Professor of Geography, Penn State. Director, Online Geospatial Education programs & GeoGraphics Lab. Chair, AAG Cartography & Mapping Specialty Group. Vice Chair, ICA Commission on Geovisualization. Past President of NACIS.
Jonah @jonahadkins.bsky.social Cartography Lead @ Meta
Nat Henry @nathenry.com Director of Henry Spatial Analysis | Professional Geographer | Seattleite | Into maps, health data, walking places
Rosemary Wardley 🏳️🌈 @rosemarywardley.bsky.social Cartographer at NatGeo | past Board member @ NACIS
geographer | adventurer | Rhode Islander | she/her
Daniel Huffman @pinakographos.bsky.social An arboreal, poly, gender non-participant mapmaker.
• Portfolio & tutorials: somethingaboutmaps.com.
• Prints: https://somethingaboutmaps.com/Storefront
• You can support my art & teaching at http://patreon.com/pinakographos. 
Wanmei L 🌎🛰️ @mapsbyw.com Science Data Visualizer | Seeking Next Opportunity | Former NASA Earth Observatory 🌎🛰🗺 | UCLA Alumni 🎓 | Award-Winning Cartographer 🧭 | 🎙️ President of Women in GIS
vicky @vickyjohnsondahl.bsky.social part beagle and part disaster
Hannah Dormido @hannahdormido.bsky.social 🗞️ Visual journo + 🗺️ cartographer
🎨 Arts & crafts, DIYs, side quests
🐈 Cat mom
🇵🇭 | DC
Signal: hannahdormido.13
CreativeApplications.Net @creativeapps.bsky.social CreativeApplications.Net — Technology, Society, and Critical Making (since 2008) Updates from team only. For latest projects + publications, see → https://www.creativeapplications.net
Download Activity iOS App → https://ca-n.in/activityios
Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com Minimalist
Irene De la Torre Arenas @inari-ta.bsky.social Dataviz designer & journalist at the Financial Times
Before: BBC News, UCB Biopharma, MIT Senseable City Lab | Northeastern alumni with Becarios Fundación La Caixa | In the past, 🇪🇸 in 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
Website: https://irenedelatorrearenas.com
Steven Bernard @sdbernard.bsky.social @data.ft.com Senior Visual Journalist. Mad about cartography, dataviz and F1! Check out my QGIS youtube channel at http://bit.ly/1MAR2Po
Follow me on Instagram
@stevendbernard
Sam Joiner @samjoiner.bsky.social Creative Director at the Financial Times. I lead visual journalism strategy and oversee visual investigations, visual stories, design and pictures.
Oli Hawkins @olihawkins.com Editorial data scientist working on computational investigations for the visual and data journalism team at the Financial Times.
🌐 olihawkins.com
Lauren Tierney @tierneymaps.bsky.social Senior Product Manager of Mapping & Cartography @ Esri. Previously @washingtonpost.com and National Geographic. Map-maker and geographer. https://linktr.ee/tierneymaps
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Ben Schmidt @bschmidt.bsky.social VP of Information Design at Nomic building new interfaces to embeddings; former history professor/digital humanist. Bsky for humanities/dataviz-y things, @benmschmidt@sigmoid.social for techy stuff, the bad place for business.
https://benschmidt.org