Rich Bryden

@W_R_Chase @aleszubajak @AxiosVisuals I like this blending. Preserving the underlying geographic view is important for some audiences.

💃Who wore it best: cartogram edition💃 Up first, yours truly (@AxiosVisuals) with a non-election version inspired by Le Monde. I chose this style because it preserves the geographic info that is missing in others, at the cost of smaller squares. axios.com/midterms-elect…

@datavizjenn @WeAreRLadies When tweaking of labels on individual data points (scatter plots, maps) is important, I move final dataset to Tableau

One chart that shows a key to the US economy's huge innovative advantage over other nations. It shows the global flows of inventors into and out of various countries from 2000-2010. What this looks like from 2020-2030 will shape the future world economy. hbs.edu/ris/Publicatio…

@SineadOS1 We miss you already @HarvardHBS Looking forward to following this next adventure vicariously

After more than a decade in academia, I quit my job to become a sailor! Thanks to everyone who made it an amazing and insane adventure. Hopefully the next decade will be just as good! Super excited for my next endeavor, whatever it may turn into... ⛵️🍾 sinead.co/outofoffice?ar…

Current oil prices are close to $100/bbl. Future oil prices are much lower (backwardated), e.g. Jan 2027 is $69/bbl. The US would make a lot of money by opening the spigots wide on the SPR for a month, and simultaneously buying futures to replenish it.

Mitt Romney says it’s time for Putin to be ‘fearful of what we might do’ deseret.com/utah/2022/3/10…

Op-Ed: The West should stop financing Putin's war - Los Angeles Times, Russia’s “balance of payments” for February 28, 2022: received $500m from the West for oil&gas; and continued killing unarmed Ukrainian civilians. Stop paying Russia! latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Science non-fiction

Did you know? Before @TheAmandaGorman(@Harvard '20) stepped on to the nation’s biggest stage earlier this week, she shared her gift of #poetry on our Klarman Hall stage. #Inauguration2021 #LifeatHBS

@jefflemberg @FiveThirtyEight He is quoting an excellent essay by Clare Malone fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-t…

"Trump’s great insight was understanding and accepting that the GOP’s base didn’t care all that much about the party elite’s core ideology. Rather, they connected with the cultural signifiers the party had so cleverly carved out." 53eig.ht/354SjBn

@observablehq As requested by many, here are the still images of the maps.

perma-cycling between foxnews, cnn, nytimes and alex.github.io/nyt-2020-elect…

Governor Baker is wrong about ranked-choice voting. My op-ed today @BostonGlobe with @LHSummers bostonglobe.com/2020/10/29/opi…

Listening to scientists is not a bad thing. I can’t believe that has to be said.

@wgbh you're still sending people knocking on doors for contributions today in Newton? March 13, 2020. Knock knock, anybody home? #covid19

Good #dataviz @TheEconomist on under-reporting, under testing, fatality rates from a global perspective thru yesterday economist.com/graphic-detail… #COVID19 + good outliers are Singapore and S Korea - outlier US

@mjmeeker311 A certain vanity project? He used to do that just with his father’s money. Now he does it with ours.

@KPowtak Good luck to a great player-coach-sportswriter. Hope to see you out coaching again soon.

Off to Fort Myers for a 4 day 60 and older baseball tourney before some spring training. I think it’s my 16th or 17th straight year going to spring training. First time for tourney. Excited!

My quest for creative innovation continues in Stavanger. Hats off to #GeoInno2020 for putting #DiversityandInclusion top of the agenda. Inspiring keynote by @MDelgadoSevilla Top Female Inventors’ mentorship boosts patents from female PhDs in US universities.

Needed a visual to put the #coronavirus in perspective. Here's a scatterplot of virality and mortality rate of other "popular" viruses Note: 1️⃣ how much more viral Measles is, and 2️⃣ how much more fatal Ebola is Using data from Wikipedia and @Vaccinologist