Nicola Rennie
📊 Data visualisation specialist.
💻 #RStats | #Python | #D3.
🎨 Generative artist.
🏃♀️ Runner.
Website: nrennie.rbind.io
She/her. Views my own.
- Reposted by Nicola RennieI'm happy to announce a new and improved version of my quarto revealjs extension that interfaces with roughnotation More annotation types, fragment support, works with flourish extension to allow for annotations of code chunks, and reverse animations are all here github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto
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- Reposted by Nicola RennieI was recently asked to comment on superspreading for a BBC article. Little did I know, my quote would become the title! www.bbc.com/future/artic...
- Reposted by Nicola Rennie"Ten simple rules for teaching data science": arxiv.org/abs/2602.02874 A new preprint by @minecr.bsky.social and myself. We'd love any feedback!
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- Reposted by Nicola RennieHere in the UK it is cold and wet but there is at least the positive that the days are getting longer quite rapidly now. At 51 degrees north where I live we will gain an extra 24 minutes of daylight this week as this #dataviz shows.
- Reposted by Nicola RennieDon't you f**king dare.
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- Reposted by Nicola Rennie📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉 The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend. pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ
- Reposted by Nicola Rennie@dslc.io welcomes you to week 5 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring Edible Plants Database! 📂 tidytues.day/2026/2026-02-03 📰 dundee.ac.uk/projects/grow-obser… #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds
- Experimenting with gradient fills for #TidyTuesday data on edible plants showing their preferred pH range 🌱 (With an additional full pH scale annotation to give context 📊) #DataViz #ggplot2 #RStats
- I'm really enjoying seeing people's different takes on some of the #TidyTuesday datasets used in my book!
- Inspired working through @nrennie.bsky.social's book (Chapter 4 tomorrow at @dslc.io!), so I went back to the original dataset for another perspective #TidyTuesday #rstats This shows the change in Bee Colonies over a 5 year sample, where increases and decreases were both observed
- When your commit message was too optimistic 🫠
- Reposted by Nicola RennieI'm excited to inform you: @hadley.nz to join the #DSLab Feb 17, live-coding a #TidyTuesday analysis. Snoop the tools he uses & ask Qs in the chat! 👀 I regret to inform you: I've challenged him to only speak in Gen-Z slang for the entire Lab & he's accepted 🙊 pos.it/dslab ⬅️👏🏻 #rstats #databs
- One of my aims for 2026 was to be a little bit less "all or nothing" with projects so I'm pretty proud of my #Genuary2026 contributions! Still learned lots of new stuff, and had plenty of time left for other things! #RStats #D3 #Genuary
- Reposted by Nicola RennieI decided to give one of my most well liked project a bit of a make over, and I wrote about it too! See how I updated the visuals of r-color-palettes emilhvitfeldt.com/post/r-color... #rstats
- Reposted by Nicola RennieThe Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
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- A really fascinating talk from @infowetrust.com tonight about Florence Nightingale's data visualisation work! 📊 #DataViz
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- Some of January's (non-generative) art 🎨
- Reposted by Nicola RennieI wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
- Slides: nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rss-au...
- There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's @rssdiversity.bsky.social online session! 📊 Topic - Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication for Audiences with Visual and Auditory Impairments Date - Wednesday 28 January 2026, 12.00PM - 1.30PM Location - Online #DataViz #RStats
- Reposted by Nicola RennieJoin us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis
- Reposted by Nicola RennieWorking with LLMs is a skill that is often based on what you enjoyed about your work. People who love the outcome vs people who love the process. If you enjoy the process of writing, coding, etc then you’ll hate working with LLMs but if you most enjoyed the finished product then they’re a good tool
- Reposted by Nicola RenniewebRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad. I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review. apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...
- Some highly skewed and hard to visualise data for this week's #TidyTuesday about Brazilian companies 🌎 Ended up with a joy plot / ridgeline plot to show the distribution of capital for different types of categories 📊 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
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- There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's @rssdiversity.bsky.social online session! 📊 Topic - Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication for Audiences with Visual and Auditory Impairments Date - Wednesday 28 January 2026, 12.00PM - 1.30PM Location - Online #DataViz #RStats
- Reposted by Nicola RennieBusy couple of weeks! Just finishing my preparation for today's Explore Explain episode recording with @nrennie.bsky.social & @ansgarw.bsky.social as we discuss their amazing work for the #30DayMapChallenge
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- Genuary Day 26: Recursive Grids. Split the canvas into a grid of some kind and recurse on each cell again and again. #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary26 #RStats
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- Reposted by Nicola RennieWe are responding to this call for evidence: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors? Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value. Thanks!
- Reposted by Nicola RennieWe're launching a new video series: Real World Data Science Big Questions! In each video, members of our data science community answer one key question. Watch the first video and read our analysis here: bit.ly/data-science... www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgC...
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- Reposted by Nicola RennieRecently at the Royal Statistical Society, I talked about hooking policymakers' attention with strong narrative The research was part of a Health Foundation project on getting impact at the NHS www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD9V...
- Did you know that you can edit a #ggplot2 chart after it's been created without having to rewrite the original #RStats code? Let's say we've made a scatter plot with this code...
- Reposted by Nicola RennieVery late to this but here we go! A collection of our visual and graphics storytelling from 2025. Enjoy 💞
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- Genuary Day 21: Bauhaus Poster. Create a poster design inspired by the German art school Bauhaus. #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary21 #RStats
- Reposted by Nicola RennieWe are thrilled to announce Dr. Kari L. Jordan (@drkariljordan.carpentries.org) as a Keynote Speaker for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! Dr. Jordan will from her knowledge and experience deliver her talk: "The Work Behind the Work: Sustaining R Through Community" user2026.r-project.org #rstats #useR2026
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- This week's #TidyTuesday data is about NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day 🪐 I used the {eyedroppeR} package to pick out some of the colours found in the images and create a grid of treemaps 📊 Space might appear dark to us but it's actually full of bright colours! 🎨 #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
- Reposted by Nicola RennieNew research maps the campaign to erase trans people from UK data 🔢 This peer-reviewed article offers the first detailed account of how UK campaign groups have sought to define sex as strictly biological across the census, policing, healthcare and digital ID. doi.org/10.1080/0958...
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- Reposted by Nicola RennieThis is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...
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- Reposted by Nicola RennieAs the climate data for 2025 continues to be released, it's time to update various data visualisations. First - the global climate stripes for 1850-2025. A third darkest red stripe is added. The last 11 years have been the warmest 11 years on record. A sequence that is unlikely to be broken soon.
- Reposted by Nicola RennieThe QUEER DATA SHOWCASE is returning in 2026 – and we’re taking the show to Manchester! An opportunity to showcase work with an audience enthusiastic about all things queer and all things data! 📢 The CALL FOR PRESENTERS is now live! www.ai-ethics.org/queer-data-s...
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- Genuary Day 17: Wallpaper group. There are only 17 ways to cover a plane with a repeating pattern. 🎨 Made with D3 #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary17
- Reposted by Nicola RennieNew post, on how AI is coming for open source software: kucharski.substack.com/p/will-your-...
