You can find me on bluesky. @obumbratta.com.

Check out the Pudding Cup winners, and maybe you can spot me in the honourable mentions.

Francis couldn’t bring himself to read my speech on stage, so here is the next best thing.

And check out the rest of the competition in our category as well as the rest of the amazing field at .

Check out more of the swim races along with additional animations created for other sports on Krisztina’s website

@szucsi created some amazing gifs examining swimming finals and the races that led to them. In it we can compare swimmers against each other & themselves. It’s a truly fascinating & cleverly intuitive visual giving insight into the whole process of competing for a championship.

So got shortlisted for the #iibawards. But as I have so strongly internalized the (erroneous and counterproductive) belief that self-promotion is the dirtiest of promotions, I’m going to instead promote the work of one of my competitors in this thread.

Thanks to @maartenzam, @Jasonforrestftw, @visualisingdata who took time to respond to my call for Pan & Zoom visuals and to @lenagroeger for her talk and article on loops where many examples came from and some of this thinking started.

I'd love to hear more uses of animation in data visualization, or other great examples of these uses, especially some of the less frequently used options.

linking lightning plots to race traces.

linking regions to their distribution.( a viz I did that ended up on the cutting room floor)

linking geography to distribution to bar chart.

Linking skateboarding charts.

And another use I love is linking visuals together

Or how the Hotstreak's in Film visual works.

Explaining Detroit's Debt in smaller chunks.

Animated annotation explaining aspects of an income gap visual.

Hans Rosling used it expertly to explain his visuals.

Animation is incredibly good at helping explain your visuals. A process I sometimes call 𝘂𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 the visual.

Comparing rankings of regions for different grades and tests.