Danielle Alberti

@daniellealberti

Axios managing editor for data viz, previously at Pew Research My favorite things are quilts, birds, books and maps

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Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· 10d

Second place at the Arlington County Fair! So amazing getting to see people stop and gush over my hard work. 🥰

A quilt showing a heron in a stained glass style with a pink fair ribbon

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· 17d

It's hard to pick favorites with my quilts, but I'm afraid this one might take first place. It was very much a skill-building project, from working with the gradient fabric to my first time hand-quilting and hand-binding. And obvi jackalopes are badass. (Original pattern via Amelia at Summer Sleet)

A small quilt showing two jackrabbits against an orange and red background. The quilting design includes intricate stitching and texture, highlighting the rabbits' fur and the landscape.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Apr 27

This 1757 Jean Baptiste Greuze painting looks like it should be the cover of a really phenomenal weird girl lit novel.

Young woman in a simple kitchen sits slumped on a chair, looking tired and pensive. She wears a loose white dress slipping off one shoulder. Nearby are a small cabinet, bowls, and kitchen utensils, with muted tones.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Apr 16

This visual, posted to Reddit by Stephen Nass in 2015 and adapted by @cingraham.bsky.social is forever the gold standard, and i just used it to explain this month's Virginia election to my 8-year-old (est. 2017).

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Dec 1

Lord help us I love it cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1027...

A screenshot from NYT cooking of "Mortadella cookies." The cookies are round, pink, and studded with pistachios and macadamia nuts, looking exactly like mortadella.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Nov 18

Google Photos is convinced that Seymour is a red panda.

Screenshot shows Google Photos' tagging of people and pets in an image. First is Mercator, a black and white cat. Second tag is an unnamed red panda's butt and tail.

A precious orange prince naps on a green chair, sprawled in a goofy position with his belly exposed.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Nov 11

Our local Lao place is renowned for their object-relational mapping special.

Google maps screenshot showing top review keywords, including drunken noodles, catfish, and object-relational mapping. A review shows a mention of the Lao stew "orm."

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Sep 2

My stained glass quilt pairs well with my quilt stained glass

A wall hanging showing a great blue heron in stained glass style next to a stained glass panel of a quilt block.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Sep 2

I finished my first stained glass quilt this weekend.

A quilted wall hanging showing a great blue heron standing in water, in a stained glass style.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Jun 21

When you do a survey that gives people that opportunity to think they're making a clever joke, they're going to make the clever joke. And then you look ridiculous when you report the results as though they are real.

"respondents were asked to identify Iran on the map" shows a world map covered in yellow dots. Iran is outlined with the annotation "23% correctly identified Iran."

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· May 14

This morning while talking to my husband about our data viz palette, my 7-year-old got all snarky and asked “how could it possibly matter what color you use for charts?!?” About 20 mins later, this is approximately where we ended up.

Still image from Jurassic Park of Dr. Grant holding a raptor claw threateningly at a wide-eyed child.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· May 14

Chart of the day from the incomparable @erindataviz.bsky.social @axios.com

A bar chart spanning three slides showing the total value of foreign gifts given to U.S. presidents between 2001 and 2023. Barack Obama received the largest total value in gifts, at $2.0m, followed by George W. Bush, $1.1m. The possible gift of a $400m Qatari plane is shown as an incredibly long bar that wraps back and forth across the page. If it were accepted, it would dwarf all the other gifts by far.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Apr 29

Adore this illustration from Sarah Grillo @axios.com. So smart. www.axios.com/2025/04/24/a...

Illustration of The Creation of Adam fresco painting by Michelangelo with multiple extra fingers

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Apr 22

Semi-relatedly, I made this bookmark this weekend

A cross-stitched bookmark showing a pigeon looking up from an orange book with text above them saying "I can't read"

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Mar 10

Reading "Endurance" by Alfred Lansing and just got to the part where the Shackleton Expedition convinced one dude they were going to a costume party at the South Georgia home of the whaling factory manager and he was the only one in a costume.

Book excerpt. “[Hudson] owed his nickname — Buddha — to a practical joke he had fallen for once while the ship was at South Georgia. The men had convinced him that there was to be a costume party ashore … and any man who had seen South Georgia with his own eyes — its glaciers and rugged mountains, the stink of whale entrails rotting in the harbor — and who could believe it to be the scene of a costume party … but Hudson did. They got him to remove most of his clothing and they dressed him in a bedsheet. Then they tied the lid of a teapot on his head with pieces of ribbon running under his chin. Thus attired, he was rowed to shore, shivering in the icy blasts that howled down off the mountains. A party was held at the home of the whaling factory manager. But when Hudson walked in, he was most assuredly the only one in costume.”

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Mar 6

I'm a fan of using children's book art around the house. I have this one from "hey, al" hanging in my bathroom. I pulled it from an old used copy I found.

An illustration showing a man startled in the middle of shaving by an absolutely gigantic toucan sticking its head through his bathroom window. The man's dog waits outside the door.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Mar 3

I think this image shows it well

A visual comparison of crow beaks (slimmer, straighter) and raven breaks (bigger, curvier, shapelier)

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Mar 3

Just want to share the painting of the day from my favorite art app. Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp, 1647 getdailyart.com/en/25074/jac...

"In his 1647 painting, a lively four-year-old girl stands on a checkered stone floor under a curtained portico. She holds a fish in one hand and the paw of a disgruntled cat in the other—an extraordinary and symbolic detail. In the background, a courting couple sits in a garden, while a distant castle completes the scene."

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Feb 28

Well that sure is a sentence. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Screenshot of a news story describing gene Hackman's death. Highlighted portion says "both bodies showed 'obvious signs of death,' the warrant says."

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Feb 21

It could plausibly have been Quebec, but I don't think so. This was the flight path.

Screenshot of FlightAware showing flight path in green over Newfoundland and Labrador, and Quebec.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Feb 21

I saw this straight line stretching a long distance through Newfoundland and Labrador and can't for the life of me figure out what it is. Anyone know?

View from an airplane window showing a rocky and icy terrain with a straight white line running through it.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Feb 5

Axios screenshot:
The bottom line: Chaos isn't an accident. Trump and his aides know that the tsunami of ideas, executive orders and proclamations makes it hard for opponents to unite around a single message.

Think about you or your friends: Are you more intrigued or worked up by all his controversial nominees ... or Greenland ... or trade wars ... or USAID ... or Elon Musk ... or Ukraine ... or South Africa ... or TikTok ... or a new sovereign wealth fund ... or Trump's own crypto? No human can process this much he-did-what news this fast.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Feb 4

A movie that came out before most (all?) of them were born

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Feb 3

Today's chart from @berkowitzbt.bsky.social @axios.com Source: U.S. Customs and Border Protection

A bar chart that illustrates total fentanyl seizures at U.S. borders from fiscal years 2022 to 2025. The Southwest border with Mexico recorded 66,379 pounds seized, while the Northern border with Canada saw only 70 pounds seized.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Feb 1

And while you're at it, check out Bisa Butler's other work. She primarily does these vivid quilted portraits of Black Americans. Some are famous historical figures, others are regular people who caught her attention in historical photos. It's just breathtaking. www.instagram.com/bisabutler/

Vivid quilted portrait of Harriet Tubman

Vivid quilted portrait of a young woman in a broad-brimmed hat, titled "Daughter of the dust."

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Feb 1

I'll also share one of my favorite pieces of art, a QUILTED portrait of Octavia Butler, by the incomparable Bisa Butler. You can find her at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

A small quilted portrait of Octavia Butler. She's against a large floral pink and orange background, and her skin in made in vivid shades of pink, orange and blue.

A detail shot of Octavia Butler's face in her quilted portrait

A detailed shot of Octavia Butler's top in a quilted portrait. One side shows a UFO while the other side shows florals and a baby.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Feb 1

data.gov yesterday and today

Screenshot of data.gov, "The home of the U.S. government's open data," shows 305,578 datasets available to search.

Same as previous screenshot, except the number of datasets available has just been removed outright.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Jan 23

This is the one she made for me when my sweet baby died

Photorealistic embroidery showing a long-haired black and white cat on a blue background surrounded by leaves.

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Jan 23

Just wanna share that in addition to being an absolute data viz all-star, @erindataviz.bsky.social is also a goddess among embroiderers. Data viz women and textile art. Name a more iconic pairing. www.reddit.com/r/Embroidery...

Screenshot of Reddit post showing a photorealistic embroidery of a cat on a pink background. Erin says "he took 50-60 hours and more than 40 colors of floss."

Danielle Alberti@daniellealberti· Jan 20

(sad (clown)fish)