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The International Energy Agency has launched an interactive map showing locations of #datacenters @iea.org and their estimated power needs.
Also useful map of major electrical grid lines and internet cables :) https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-and-ai-observatory?tab=Energy+for+AI
FDA vaccine target LP.8.1, dominant since March, plateaued in April. June saw Nimbus NB.1.8.1 / PQ, scion of "razor-blade throat" XDV, push LP.8.1 out of majority.
Due to "low numbers of sequences being reported" (as evidenced by "less reliable" dot hatching on below chart), #CDC did not publish data this week, having advised only of "moving to longer reporting periods":
https://hcommons.social/@beadsland/114662142357659963
Raj's dashboard, updated this morning, shows PQ.2 as standout child of Nimbus NB.1.8.1 / PQ; Stratus XFG in competition with kids XFG.2 and XFG.3; and LP.8.1 long ago overshadowed by LP.8.1.1/ NY.
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Just corrected major bug by changing one assignment.
Purpose of including inline bubble #datavis of GISAID data was to demonstrate how major subvariants, not broken out by the CDC, were being obscured by CDC bundling those subvariants into ancestor for reporting purposes.
Which is what these #dataviz would have been doing, if only they'd been using the actual share of the given ancestor to set the size of its bubble. Instead, of, well (*clears throat with embarrassment*) the total sum of shares of the root variant and its descendants.
Would say that this was down to my focusing so much attention on dynamic legend and family grouping logic, but that ignores time spent adjusting how bubbles were aligned within tiles.
So, really, it was just that never bothered to consistency check the bubbles as drawn against data as given, assuming without validating that everything was correct.
Anyway, charts going forward now work as intended, reflecting when #CDC data hides more than it reveals.
FDA vaccine target LP.8.1, dominant since March, plateaued in April. June sees Nimbus NB.1.8.1, scion of "razor-blade throat" XDV, push LP.8.1 out of majority.
#CDC added NB.1.8.1 only in latest, late-published public dataset. Notice of "software error" that heralded data delay… has been removed. Hatching for "less reliable" data reflects "low numbers of sequences being reported".
Raj's dashboard, updated this morning, shows Nimbus diversifying in May. Also, XFJ significant, even if CDC hasn't broken out.
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Two weeks ago, Mike Honey noted that there are three recombinants that have arrived on Doppelgänger spike proteins, namely XFJ, XFM, and XFP:
https://aus.social/@mike_honey_/114611686572899925
Last week, Xu Zhu (HT D. Focosi) identified a superset of recombinants that have all arrived at a pairing of LF.7's NTD with RBD from elsewhere, namely: XFC, XFG, XFH, XFJ, XFM, XFN and XFP:
https://x.com/dfocosi/status/1931351676880879856
Above variants chart #AnnoPlot script is now updated to favor grouping by such emerging clusters preferentially over grouping by legacy ancestors.
As a reminder, recombinants happen when more than one virus strain is actively replicating in the same organism.
Here, that means two simultaneous infections, from different sources, finding a home in the same person.
When #PublicHealth is a priority, this should be a rare occurrence.
There are seven unique recombinants identified in this new cluster, alone.
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FDA vaccine target LP.8.1, dominant since March, plateaued in April. June sees Nimbus NB.1.8.1, scion of "razor-blade throat" XDV, push LP.8.1 out of majority.
#CDC adds NB.1.8.1 only in latest, late-published public dataset. "Software error" that heralded data delay remains unresolved. Hatching for "less reliable" data reflects "low numbers of sequences being reported".
Raj's dashboard, updated Sunday, shows Nimbus diversifying in May.
❖ #ThisIsOurPolio #Covid #Covid19 #SARS2 #variants #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne #dataviz #datavis
Another four hundred lines for #AnnoPlot #dataviz project since last round of work in March:
https://hcommons.social/@beadsland/114475406737012154
Work in May/early June included:
• tweaks to this pie chart, chirp logging, annoplot legend classes and newspaper columns orphan control;
• tweaks to variants #datavis: tree constructor process, alt-text pruning internals, legend subclass, tree constructor methods, name collisions and recombinant lineage assignments, family groupings and legend headers, variant mocking, title overhang, tile embossing, growth calculation, and captions, all including significant refactoring;
• migration of bug to legend footer, and build out of prioritized legend footnotes for prominent lineages and recombinants, including recombinant chains, with calculation and approximation of historical peaks, and pruning for space constraints of both alt-text and footer proper.
“To visualize with care is to visualize with empathy: to make visible environmental harm, surface suppressed narratives, reveal shared experiences, and confront the structural biases that too often remain hidden.”
https://nightingaledvs.com/visualizing-as-a-form-of-collective-care/
by @damlacay @dario and Weidi Zhang - general chairs of this year’s VIS Arts Program @visap:
https://visap.net/2025/ (submissions due 20 June)
Since March, LP.8.1 has been dominant. FDA designates same as vaccine target, on very week its share has plateaued.
Data collection continues to be low priority nationally—as exactly zero regions have enough data for CDC to plot.
No new variants broken out by #CDC, although the "razor blade throat" variant, NB.1.8.1, remains significant in GISAID.
Raj's dashboard was last updated yesterday.
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Project Lead role at Processing: https://processingfoundation.org/employment/processing-project-lead
via https://bsky.app/profile/processing.org/post/3lpa22bydhs2t
Happy birthday to founder of modern nursing, social reformer, statistician, data visualization innovator and writer Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)!
Nightingale earned the nickname “The Lady with the Lamp” during the Crimean War, from a phrase used by The Times, describing her as a “ministering angel” making her solitary rounds of the hospital at night with “a little lamp in her hand”.
#linocut #printmaking #sciart #womenInSTEM #datavis #nursing #statistics #mathart #histsci #mastoArt
Updated #CDC estimates show we'd pretty much been in a JN.1.11 soup since Dec, until late March, when LP.8.1 took majority.
Data collection continues to be low priority nationally—as exactly zero regions have enough data for CDC to plot.
CDC breaks out recombinant XFC from FLiRT parent LF.7 . (Our dataviz now identifies parentage for each recombinant.) Raj's dashboard was last updated today.
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Congrats Shani on your presentation of "The Many Tendrils of the Octopus Map" at #CHI2025 today! If you missed the presentation, you can read the paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713583
or check out @Birdbassador 's blog post here: https://mcorrell.medium.com/the-ubiquity-of-tentacularity-exploring-octopus-maps-2e25289fb9d8 #ACMCHI #DataVis #History
Updated #CDC estimates show we'd pretty much been in a JN.1.11 soup since Dec, until late March, when LP.8.1 took majority.
Data collection continues to be a low priority nationally, as exactly zero regions have enough data for CDC to plot.
Two children of LF.7.7, dot1 and dot2, broken out by CDC, together with PA.1, a grandchild of MC.10.
Raj's dashboard was last updated a week ago today.
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