@lmshap

Graphics, data viz, words and code @washingtonpost // Trying to be a little bit better every day

 md/dc
leslie-s.net
Joined May 2009
  • Tweets601
  • Following923
  • Followers1.2K
123Media
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Júlia Ledur@juledurg31 Jul 2025
In yesterday's @washingtonpost we published a portion of the known names of 18,500+ Gazan children killed in the war. We could only fit 18% of the names on these 2 pages — it would have taken 5 more pages to list them all.
2
10
1
12
1,235
Incredible work by @Timmeko @asteckelberg @lmshap @AdrianBlancoR and @sfrostenson visualizing every vote this presidential election as a grain of sand washingtonpost.com/elections…
10
3
20
6,160
If the avg. American was in Gaza, this is what it'd mean for their family and friends. "After five months of war, seven would be dead." Powerful framing and statistics from @alyssafowers, @lmshap, @catebrown12, Hajar Harb. washingtonpost.com/world/int…

Friends, family, acquaintances: What would have happened to them if Gaza was home?

The numbers coming out of Gaza can be hard to comprehend. So let’s apply it to a smaller scale.

washingtonpost.com
4
3
1
10
2,833
Workers @washingtonpost have been in contract negotiations with our bosses for 18 months. But the company is refusing to pay us what we’re worth or bargain in good faith. So on Dec. 7, we’re walking off the job for 24 hours.
6,832
1,094
1,473
2,439
4,268,680
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Post Graphics@PostGraphics26 Jun 2023
We're those weirdos. Our latest: What’s your type? How fonts change the way you read and write. washingtonpost.com/technolog…

What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you.

Fonts can dramatically shape what you communicate and how you read.

washingtonpost.com
ICE T
@FINALLEVEL28 Mar 2023
I do not give a flying FUCK about Fonts... Weirdo shit.
17
31
16,573
The World population has just reached 8 billion people. @sadbumblebee @lmshap @RubyMellen and Hailey Haymond worked on this big visual story that includes a calculator to check how many people like you are int he planet (I'm one in 367,900) washingtonpost.com/world/int…
Calculator showing how mnay people of the same age, country and gender are in the world right now. With the options 42 years old, from Spain and male, the calculator shows 367,900 persons.

ALT Calculator showing how mnay people of the same age, country and gender are in the world right now. With the options 42 years old, from Spain and male, the calculator shows 367,900 persons.

2
11
2
35
“Cut Short” by @alyssafowers + @lmshap of the Washington Post reads like a story, introducing a fraction of the 1 million individuals who died of COVID. @ClaireESantoro's interview explores this powerful work and the choice to visualize #qualitative data nightingaledvs.com/cut-short…

“Cut Short”: Visualizing Lives Lost with Empathy and Impact - Nightingale

In May 2022, the U.S. hit the grim milestone of 1 million COVID deaths. Newsrooms across the country reported this statistic, often accompanied by sobering charts that pointed out the incomprehensi...

nightingaledvs.com
6
2
11
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Júlia Ledur@juledurg27 May 2022
🚗⛽️ Planning to hit the road on Memorial Day weekend? We built a gas calculator that tells you how much you’ll pay at the pump (spoiler alert: it’s a lot more than in pre-covid times!). wapo.st/3LNRGOJ w/ @lmshap @n_kirkpatrick @dataKateR

Summer road trip? Our gas calculator can help you see your costs.

After years of pandemic isolation, people are planning summer travel near pre-pandemic levels. But their wallets won’t take them nearly as far.

washingtonpost.com
2
3
6
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Alyssa Fowers@alyssafowers18 May 2022
Every victim of covid-19 had their own joys and hopes for the future. @lmshap and I marked one million deaths from covid-19 by writing about one person who died each week of the pandemic: what they loved doing and what they wanted to do next. washingtonpost.com/health/in…

Cut short

Remembering one person for each week of the pandemic: what brought them joy and what they wanted to do next. And how that was cut short.

washingtonpost.com
2
39
9
82
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Nick Miroff@NickMiroff23 Mar 2021
More than 550 teens and children have arrived per day on average through March 21, per latest govt data. If pace continues, here’s how current influx compares to 2014 and 2019, via @lmshap
8
63
15
140
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Andrew Ba Tran@abtran11 Mar 2021
Who are the unaccompanied minors crossing the border? Where are they from? Where do they go? With @NickMiroff and ⁦@lmshap⁩ washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
2
13
1
20
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Jeff Stein
@jstein_sun28 Jan 2021
.@SenBooker (D-NJ) at committee hearing reading aloud from stellar reporting from my Washington Post colleagues: "The covid-19 recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history" @byHeatherLong @andrewvandam @alyssafowers @lmshap washingtonpost.com/graphics/…

The covid-19 recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history

The covid recession was a mild setback for those at or near the economic top and a depression-like blow for those at the bottom, according to a Washington Post analysis.

washingtonpost.com
4
15
61
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Michelle Ye Hee Lee@myhlee24 Jan 2021
This timeline graphic is amazing: Trump made about six false or misleading claims a day in his first year as president and 39 a day in his final year. By @GlennKesslerWP @mmkelly22 @rizzoTK @lmshap @leohdear wapo.st/trump-claims-timelin…  washingtonpost.com/politics/…
3
44
6
62
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Heather Long
@byHeatherLong21 Dec 2020
Back by popular demand: The Washington Post stimulus check calculator What's new? -$600 per adult (down from $1,200) -$600 per child (up from $500) -Mixed-status households get payments Over 85% of US households get payments washingtonpost.com/graphics/… w/ @lmshap @ashlynstill

Calculate how much you would get from the $1,400 (or more) coronavirus checks

The third round of stimulus checks will be the largest so far.

washingtonpost.com
3
9
11
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Emily Guskin@EmGusk11 Nov 2020
Check out these vote swings washingtonpost.com/graphics/…

How independents, Latino voters and Catholics shifted from 2016 and swung states for Biden and Trump

These are the biggest demographic shifts in the 2020 election.

washingtonpost.com
16
36
5
134
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Tyler Remmel@tylerremmel8 Nov 2020
JUST WATCH HOW HARD WE WORKED ON THIS
52
645
237
3,288
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Drew Harwell@drewharwell20 Oct 2020
Really important point here. We should worry less about the speculative threat of a political deepfake attack and fight back more against the tech as it's being used in the here and now: to harass and disparage women (wapo.st/2Tw7Vqd)

Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: ‘Everybody is a potential...

"Deepfake" creators target both celebrities and everyday women with photos taken from the Web. Even Scarlett Johansson says she's powerless to fight them.

washingtonpost.com
This quoted post is unavailable.
Try viewing anyway · View on X
1
27
2
114
The more I hear about President Trump's covid treatment, the more I think about the late James Brooks, an 80-year-old black man who lived outside Detroit. He left Mississippi for Detroit and built a middle-class life for his family as a company man at Chrysler.
215
8,724
1,614
25,328
NEW: @jacobbogage got USPS data showing at least 671 USPS mail sorting machines have been removed across the country since June. Represents a reduction in national mail sorting capacity of 21.4 million pieces of mail per hour. washingtonpost.com/local/md-…
995
15,131
4,017
17,105
Leslie Shapiro retweeted
Post Graphics@PostGraphics31 Jul 2020
🚨 Applications for our reporter and assignment editor positions close in just ONE week on Aug. 7! Still on the fence about applying? Throughout today, you’ll have a chance to read what the folks on our team had to say about why they love @PostGraphics. wapo.st/2P8j6nI
1
22
2
29
Load more