Sim, é diferente.
My name is Jorge Camões, I'm a #dataviz consultant, trainer, and author of the book Data at Work amzn.to/2i7Z0KO. #Excel, #PowerBI & #PowerQuery, #Tableau. Based in Lisbon, Portugal. wisevis.com
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Sim, é diferente.
Um brasileiro a ler um jornal português: "As propinas matam-me".
Forgot to mention Alentejo, a region that matches Belgium in area, that we created specifically to make this transition smooth.
I mean, look at them: an almost perfect rectangle, portrait, a perfect 2.5:1 aspect ratio, almost aligned in area with metric best practices (90000 square km). While Belgium... puff.
Great news! Portugal is replacing Belgium as a reference for areas! This is like moving from imperial to metric!
This is the best one, but if you want to know more hidden gems on Wikipedia, I wrote a post in 2011 with a few more examples: excelcharts.com/change-bad-c...
Oh, I almost missed this one.
Sorry to disappoint.
Much of the current zeitgeist is a performative construct.
The security guy wouldn't let us make any sudden moves, so we couldn't fully taste it. :) Cattelan's work is a bit in-your-face (imho) but it's... fun.
Here it is.
They probably mean the website, not the app they started with.
I mentioned it in 2009: excelcharts.com/hans-rosling/
I don't remember, maybe he mentioned it when he was here (2008/9?). But I probably found the app on the gapminder website before that.
Are you in a different time zone? It's a pleasure to see you in the morning :) I find it a bit strange that Dollar Street is not well known in the #datavis communities.
Designing for the specific medium. I feel that often the result is a silly infographic with a couple of data points with heavy makeup, and that something else is possible. (I'm venting about the Eurostat X account...)
#datavis for social media is hard. Or perhaps I'm old and grumpy.
Not the nano, the other one. :)
On my way to see the banana.
Oh no, I accepted to change these and now I must revert them to prove I'm human.
I’m on a vacation and this is what I plan to finally read in full, because I need it now. Seven years later, I really hope it has aged well.
All brilliant minds agree.
Eu sei, cá em casa também há uma assim.
Sim, mas estes resolvem o problema do pelo...
Em 1986 o governo escolheu modelo de desenvolvimento errado, e ainda estamos a pagar por isso, porque nenhuma das faces do bloco central teve tomates para criar alternativas. Reciclamos sucata espanhola para a principal linha ferroviária, a CP tem uma linha suburbana onde nunca investiu, etc.
Não sei se não será um caso em que desta vez é mesmo diferente. Ainda temos pelo menos mais três anos disto. Talvez não fosse má ideia verificar os nossos checks and balances (lol).
É capaz de haver algum tipo de prazer desviante feito de absoluta submissão, sensação de impotência, fascínio pelo abismo e ao mesmo tempo desprezo pela figura de poder. Sabia que os americanos eram estranhos, não tinha percebido quão estranhos.
Living in Portugal, I visited Cabo Sardão multiple times and found these formations... cool. But now I need to bring along a geologist next time I visit. Can't look at those formations again without someone explaining them.
Whenever I go for a group hike I hope it's just us, people that stare at computers, and not botanists or geologists discovering and blablabla'ing about the wonders around us that the other people can't notice. We try to play the game and point at something, and they are like, "nah, that's just...".
Eu até gosto das Arco. Mas todos os serviços já há muito que passaram os limites e, apesar dos anúncios, não vejo qualquer sentido de urgência, começando pelas obras que duram o triplo do tempo e acabando com o desinteresse do bloco central pelos comboios por motivos demasiado óbvios.
Estando na automotora de Badajoz, que parece que vai morrer a qualquer momento, tenho de admitir que estou um bocado farto deste permanente vasculhar lixo da Renfe.
So, how many of you have kids that run around a Roman circus just for fun? (No horses required.)
Back in Merida.
Na minha imensa sapiência de juventude, na fase Bairro Alto, andei a planear fazer grafitti nos locais mais... odoríferos, de um homem de perna alçada e a frase "Que tal a sua vida de cão?". Mas a minha rebeldia era um pouco inconsistente.
Ah, não vi. Mas o melhor design é invisível, pelo que estou desculpado.
Claustrofóbica? :)
Dollar Street needs more homes and contributors! I notice that they don't have any homes from Finland, for instance. www.gapminder.org/dollar-stree...
Sim!
O que suscita a pergunta sobre o que terá levado o Banco de Portugal a vir para aqui.
Havia uma excelente comunidade na minha área. A maioria debandou mas não se recompôs aqui. Alguns vieram sem grande entusiasmo, outros ficaram pelo LinkedIn.
Julgo que essa continua a ser uma razão para alguns, e a dose diária também. Mas o volume tem outra ordem de grandeza. No meu caso, posso desculpar-me com o facto de os organismos de estatística não saírem de lá (em particular o Eurostat).
That can be dangerous. You should protect your eyes and mouth with a nylon sock.
A book fair blocking access to a public library is one of those absurd things that make me proud to be Portuguese ("proud", hum, too strong a word). Never change, #Porto.
Proceeds to show a chemical reaction that apparently extracts a disgusting slime from the rock.
Is this correct? I thought the right answer/translation was "12".
Europeans: no AC, no clothes dryers, still trusting vaccines.
Low-cost #datavis? Assigning a label to a random slice feels on brand.
Let's say I'd prefer Canada or New Zealand.
Ah, yes, I remember I wanted to be in Edinburgh, but couldn't go, I was still recovering from the pandemic.
This looks great. November? Sure. So, where is it? Oh.
"There is, in the far reaches of Iberia, a people that neither governs itself nor allows itself to be governed." This is not the flex you think it is, Portugal.
Sempre achei que Varge Mondar é nome de terra de país de leste, onde posso trocar?
Tenho estado a apreciar a coisa, e embora não façam fila para assinar, parece ser fácil convencer as pessoas, em particular as mais velhas (que são quase todas aqui a esta hora).
Sim.
Recolha de assinaturas de Gouveia e Melo. A diferença para o Isaltino...
O Ondaparque fechou? Olha, não sabia, que pena.
"Uglify" is a superpower.
Ok, ok, stop asking. Here is a picture of my sons.
You'd be in heaven here. Our convent desserts are mostly variations of egg yolks and sugar. Not very subtle, but some are at the "sex is good but have you tried" level.
No, are eggs. It's called "encharcada". Encharcada is a traditional Portuguese convent dessert from the Alentejo region, made mainly with egg yolks, sugar, and water. It has a rich golden color, a moist, fibrous texture, and is served soaked in syrup.
You know I love you all, but I really can't share this, sorry.
This is an intercity train in Portugal.
Pour la famille française that asked for directions ce matin: je suis désolé. I actually comprends French, mais je suis incapable of speaking français without mixing it avec l’anglais.
You can always plug your car to the home grid :)
For a few minutes, I thought I was able to make a proper bar chart in #PowerBI without scrolling. Hélas, it was a flitting illusion of smoke and mirrors.
Ideally, they will fire workers, replace them with AI, realize that's not working, no option but rehire those workers at higher wages.
I assume there must be a way of flattening the output using massive batteries at the point of production or small ones at the point of consumption. No idea how feasible that is. Household "powerbanks" are still very expensive.
Level "I can't believe i'm still protesting this shit" but that's where we are.
I guess that the house rules for my new site must explicitly say that: - I believe in science - Vaccines work - Earth is round - Covid is real - Religion is not needed for ethics - No Trump, no Putin, better EU Enter at your own peril.
It's 2025 and I never used Gloves/Uber Eats/... Am I a normal person?
This is the concept of a pedestrian street in Portugal: - make it pedestrian - contemplate in horror all the empty space left for walking - add parking spaces - leave a tiny strip for pedestrians Perfect!
Em Portugal não temos nada a aprender da Finlândia na gestão da saúde.
Sei que a Nossa Senhora d'Aires ajuda a encontrar burros perdidos. A próxima vez que lá for vou verificar se também é eficaz com sinusites e que tais.
I call it legacy #datavis. Lots of old & silly ideas that should be buried in the XX century.
Oh, the top section is compressed, so it's not just a scale break.
Impressive how Microsoft, when it comes to #datavis, always chooses the wrong priorities
The nuclear button will be transferred to AI soon, so I don't think we as a species have to worry with a 500.000-year problem.
I know, just find it funny the "AI will replace everything in three years" vs. "it takes 15 years to build a new nuclear plant". I think this can't be stopped anymore, so it either crashes (hopefully soon) or we have to use all our resources to feed the beast.
Two interesting things to factor in: it takes many years to build a new nuclear plant. Also, nuclear tends to be more expensive than renewables.
- Guia-se num misto de impunidade, egoísmo e incompetência. Se se resolvesse a primeira já ajudava muito. - Está tudo a cair, não há recursos básicos. Sinceramente não sei o que fazemos ao dinheiro.
Plano: durmo que nem um bebé durante toda a viagem e estou pronto para enfrentar o dia Realidade: impossível pregar olho, chego ao hotel como um farrapo e passo todo o dia a dormir.
This was only my third time there, just two days, preparing for my son's Erasmus. I guess I'll have no choice but to visit the city often over the next 6 months.
No AC, no clothes dryer, no parking, no billboards. How can people live in a hellscape like this?
English uses descriptive names for many plants and animals, and then chooses a boring one for "leeches", when many European languages prefer "bloodsucker".
Miro using salience and pre attentive processing. Clearly a #datavis expert, with a twist.
It's a bureaucracy and you must ensure you don't upset a single one of the 27 member states. How many authorizations would be required to make changes to this chart?
Yes but this is a peculiar type of bad. You can't improve it if you don't have a solution for the outliers.
More green is better, but there are a lot of trees in many streets. Here in Lisbon we hate trees (+1 tree=-1 parking space and bird poop). This level of green is already a culture shock to me.
Pizza for lunch. My wife asks us if we want soup. So I had to lecture her about the dangers of mixing proper food with pizza.
That constant feeling of emptiness? It means you are not buying enough stuff from Temu.
Aqui, ou não durmo porque está muito calor com a janela fechada ou abro a janela e não durmo porque o pessoal se mantém à conversa depois de o café fechar.
Há algum livro comparando a forma como são vistos acontecimentos concretos, como Aljubarrota, em PT e ES?
Living in Lisbon, I find it strange that these empty spaces in Barcelona are not used for car parking. It's shocking, really. What do pedestrians need so much space for?
Don't despair! In 6 or 7 quarters everything will be back to normal and we'll be able to read normal variation again. A word of appreciation for the Eurostat, unfazed by l'écume des jours, relentlessly updating a useless chart for five years. #datavis
