Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty

@moritzstefaner.bsky.social

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Crafting data experiences at http://truth-and-beauty.net

Maps with hatchings in different colors and directions.
Text showing longwinded considerations by large language model in response to the message "test"
Network diagram showing ownership structures in live music: stages and events
Closeup on label "Queer Left Artists & Shitposters"
Visualization of various DJ sets from the author. Comment "My own sets — all over the place"
Visualization of various DJ sets from Moodymann. Comment "More positive mood, more gaps = less identifiable tracks"
Visualization of various DJ sets from Acid Pauli. Comment "Nice variety, excellent control of story arcs"
Legend for the visuals: Each ribbon represents a DJ set.

Color + vertical offset = mood 
(blue/down=sad, orange/up=happy)

Line spacing = tempo 
(tighter=faster)

Line thickness + opacity = intensity.

Dotted curves connect identical tracks 
in neighboring sets.
"This project takes DJ sets for a walk" with artistic data visualization in background.
Closeup of semantic map with activation overlay. Terms like "EEG", "deep learning", "autism spectrum disorder" have the highest level of activation, i.e. have been more in use lately.
A montage of screenshots showing landing page, semantic map and trand page of the State of Neuroscience project
"A Pair of Printer’s Cases", drawn by Rudolph Ruzicka. showing a typesetting case with capital laters in the upper case — literally
Screenshot of Chrome developer tools showing the bar chart being coded in html+css
Cover of CHART book by Nadieh Bremer, from the perspective of the author lying in a hammock
A storefront of a Japanese Don Quijote store
Bubble map of US election outcomes with label "Acres don't vote, people do"
Orange-yellow image of a black hole.
Warming stripes infographic
HAPPY 2025 spelled with features in satellite images
Three screenshots from some recent projects of Moritz Stefaner, which feature very similar blue colors.
Connected scatterplot chart of library awareness and positivity
Excerpt from a website, showing a chart title "Utterances from the guests" with the comment "Andy, we have some bad news — so sorry…"
Screenshot of a custom web application showing search results for "big data" from the Data Stories transcription archive.
Example excerpt from the transcription dataset: "As an example, in episode number 76, called Bocoup and OpenVis Conference, Jim Vallandingham apparently said "Forget Netflix. Yeah, this is better." at 49 minutes and 42 second(s) into the podcast."
Invitiation image for bremen dataviz meetup
Screenshot of CCVI website and index structure tree
Download panel for CCVI data
Trend curve for topic "Energy". September 2024 values are unusually high in historic comparison
Map showing search interest for "Pension Funds"
Line chart showing search interest in inflaction. 2024 is consistently high, only surpassed by search interest in 2022.
Map showing inflation search trend being +115%