Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁
On the job market!
Presently PhD candidate studying tool-making for vis 📊 @hcii.cmu.edu. Prev: Adobe, Highsoft, Apple, Visa.
Softer-ware (malleability), accessibility, data interaction, node-edge navigation
Disabled & making a ttrpg.
www.frank.computer
- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
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- Updated our long-list of resources on accessibility and visualization, including 2025 articles, guides, and technical tools! (For those that don't know, this single-page doc is one of my most-starred projects on github.) github.com/dataviza11y/...
- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc
- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁Good morning... Not sure if folks can read the full post by Mark linked here since it's on FedBook but if you can, it's worth it to kick off a new week: www.facebook.com/mark.provost...
- In case you missed it, I have a free, full, open course on accessibility and visualization that is part of the launch of the new Open Visualization Academy. The course is packed! And the OVA has over 300+ sign-ups already (which isn't even necessary!) as well as over 4000+ newsletter subs.
- You can catch my full, open course on accessibility in visualization here: openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/acce...
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- The data shown vs the whole picture. This is another one for the "how charts can lie" slide deck.
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- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁Y’all wanna see bots try to throw a dead body over a wall
- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.
- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁Abolish ICE and fire all agents is the moderate position.
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- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁The paid out of state agitators are literally the ICE agents.
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- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
- The line-up of instructors is incredible! Such a great set of brilliant people, all with deep expertise. So thankful that the OVA managed to assemble this crew of folks to deeper our field's understanding of advanced, complex, and vitally important parts of data visualization.
- We're live!!! 🎉🎉🎉
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- Participating in the general strike and not working today? Or outside the US and just interested in accessibility and visualization? My course over at the Open Visualization Academy is out! It's a perfect way to spend a day just enriching yourself and your knowledge. Link below:
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- The countdown is getting close! Mark your calendars for our Jan 31st release!
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- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act
- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different
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- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...
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- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
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- A bootleg recording of my favorite talk I've ever given, "Tool-making, for good and evil," is now on youtube! (link below) Huge thanks to @larene.dev for recording, @damianm.com for convincing me to do it, and the awesome folks hosting (and in the audience) at @dddbrisbane.bsky.social, back in Dec.
- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁In the newsletter: The Open Visualization Academy is almost here. We launch next week; save the date! openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/the-open-v... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism
- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁i feel like the viral bus thread resonates because at every step of the way you're like "ok surely this will be resolved shortly, any second now," which seems like what all the passengers are also thinking. then the fact that the situation doesn't resolve and the bus just keeps going is an Allegory
- This is a wild ride.
- Super excited for Jan 31st! The day is soon approaching...
- Whew, what a year 2025 was. I feel like I've lived a dozen years just in that one. I decided to chronicle 2025, to remember it better in the future. I was privileged to travel to 10 major cities across the world, make wonderful things, and give 28 talks, workshops, keynotes, and lectures.
- Socialize cost, privatize profit. A classic tactic. We are paying for data centers, whether or not we wanted them. They are a leech on what should be (ideally) *public* infrastructure: infrastructure for us, not them.
- This chart by @nathanielbullard.com is one reason data centers are driving up our electricity prices. Tech companies usually build data centers close to cities, where accommodating their GW-scale power demand entails costly reinforcement of wires or transformers. Utilities pass those costs on to us.
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- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS
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- I was a community organizer for 3 yrs, and we always had 3 things we got on the same page about: 1. *the* first, concrete thing we wanted to change 2. *the* person we needed to convince to make that change real 3. *the* strategy to get that person to make the change happen This work is very hard.
- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁brutal bag of charts by @ashendruk.com www.not-ship.com/america-isnt...
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- Hammers not only shape thinking, but demand from us entire industries, regulations, policy, and global trade. In a modern economy, we might trade our iron and lumber with another country and *they* assemble our hammers, which we then import. Tools don't just shape the user, they shape all of *us.*
- Just got an email titled "data as destiny in the steel city" by @datasociety.bsky.social and lo and behold, it is a stupendous piece by my good friend @cellllla.bsky.social datasociety.net/points/data-...
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- Reposted by Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁A week ago I think I knew maybe 3 parents at my kid’s preschool, and now I know almost all of them, and have steeled myself to give my life for their kids and their teachers if I need to.
