Ben Kates

Attention @datawrapper power users! I built a @raycastapp extension just for YOU! This extension allows you to view, search, open, and duplicate your Datawrapper #datavisualization anywhere on your Mac! Check it out and let me know what you think! raycast.com/benkates/dataw…

New Unwrapped speaker! @benkates, data visualization developer at @urbaninstitute, will share how he used Svelte to extend Datawrapper tooltips like in the video below. Learn more about Ben and sign up for Unwrapped (for free!) here: blog.datawrapper.de/urban-institut…

@arobotwriting @urbaninstitute Aw thanks for sharing Rachel!!

@urbaninstitute My teammate @benkates built this extraordinary radial viz showing how people of color are crowded out of high quality jobs. Just incredible work. Give it a read here: apps.urban.org/features/job-q…

y'all better get ready, because starting this week, my dataviz team @urbaninstitute is about to drop a large handful of projects going over the next month and a half. better strap your socks on now!!

Surveys and other data systems still rely on binary terms Male/Female. We are way overdue for a change. After digging into alternative ways to quantify our identities, Fe Simeoni made two data structures to better reflect the fuller #lgbtqia spectrum. nightingaledvs.com/querying-the-q…

@visualisingdata Great meeting you too! Loved seeing the podcast live. Appreciate the note, I will definitely do so when I see @jschwabish later this month!

@Lluis_Revilla @hrbrmstr thanks so much

@benkates @hrbrmstr He sent an email to R-pkg-devel saying that none was detected: stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-pa…

@bengarvey Font change? Huge week

What a week, huh?

@Wattenberger Coming from the #rstats world, when I realized how you define your own scales for aesthetics of the viz and how thats similar to ggplot2, it’s a nice framework for me to fall back on when I get overwhelmed!

prepping for a talk! I'm curious: what was the biggest Eureka moment for you with d3.js? or with making custom viz? I've definitely had a few moments where everything clicked - would love to hear all of yours 👂🌽

@kierisi Lots of friendly data folks here in Philly!

@profgalloway Interested in seeing the projection if covid didn’t happen

The stimulus propelled an uptick in entrepreneurship

I've been working on my first complex @d3visualization project for the last month and I have to say the #rstats data manipulation skills I've developed work so well with the "custom" aspect of custom viz! Very fun!

@nicholashand Great work! Looking like a d3 viz?

@thisismichaeld @johngreen @flowimmersive Awesome!

This excerpt from @johngreen’s newest book brilliantly articulates how both dominant and insignificant we all are. Was a fun AR build as part of some @flowimmersive testing tonight. And I can’t believe how good my dogs timing was :)

@HoloMarkeD Congrats! Your work has impacted many and I look forward to the resources in the future!

I'm going to be a quiet in my open-source work for a while as I've been asked by O'Reilly to write a book about GA4 integrations that will come out some time early 2022. I'm announcing this publicly so I have good motivation to actually finish the book :) #googleanalytics

@joekay I go back to ep 404 w @jrobbdaproducer again and again and again. Sharing with friends when they ask about Soulection, feeling inspired by the vibe and incorporating it into my own music production, just incredible. Trash series is amazing!

my bad i forgot to say what ya’ll gotta do 😂😩 lmk which soulection radio show is your favorite & why

giving away a few of these

@undertheraedar Got it thank you!

@benkates if you have a look at my blog here you'll see the Aerialod tutorials (it's Windows-only for the time being at least) - it's very easy to get up and running, then it's a case of experimenting (I usually edit a bit using other tools) statsmapsnpix.com/search?q=aeria…

Did I mean to make a daytime population graphic of London that looks like malfunctioning control rods on a RBMK reactor? No. Did I end up doing that? Maybe.

@MichaelHoweEly Ha, very nice!

How to build a simple Bitcoin and Ethereum dashboard in Google Data Studio michaelhoweely.com/2021/04/29/how…

@Helpfullee Oh wow awesome!!