Are you a kick-ass designer who can help make scientific information about climate change and climate solutions come to life? If so, we’re hiring! drawdown.org/careers/seni...

Senior Digital Designer, Climate Science

Our mission is to help the world stop climate change as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.

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Let’s get talking! According to our 2024 SOTI Survey, guess how many different countries our respondents hailed from: The 2025 survey is now open, share your unique perspective by January 15, 2026: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b... Answer coming in the comments soon. 1. 17 2. 31 3. 58 4. 72

🎉 We’ve received 482 responses to the 2025 State of the Data Viz Industry Survey so far! Take the survey if you create #dataviz in any capacity (hobby, work, school, art), and help us spread the word: www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2025-b...

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization

How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

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Did you attend Outlier Conference in person? Photos are up (aka I have a new headshot) Professional photos: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

I teach virtually at MICA, so it’s such a treat to meet up with current and former data viz graduate students in person!

At #Outlier2025 talking about style guide tips with @alangwilson.bsky.social @datagrazing.bsky.social & @policyviz.bsky.social

Thankfully @amycesal.com, Max Graze, Alan Wilson and @policyviz.bsky.social managed to get their fifteen style guide tips into one summary slide at #outlier2025 so I didn’t have to pick one!

Excited to speak soon at #Outlier2025

Morning views #Outlier2025

If you're interested in Data Visualization, get your ticket for the data viz conference Outlier. If you're a Data Visualization Society member, virtual tickets are only $150! www.outlierconf.com/outlier-2025...

Registration — Outlier

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How do you make charts for social media? @everviz.bsky.social is the (only?) tool that creates gifs of animated charts. I wrote a blog post about animation and other considerations (like audience, thanks @allitorban.bsky.social ) for creating charts for social media www.everviz.com/blog/tips-fo...

Tips for charts for Social Media - everviz

Creating charts for social media requires you to think about the medium. The same exact chart that you created for a report rarely works well just uploaded to Instagram. You need to grab people’s atte...

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Special Awards nominations open for the 2024 IIB Awards. Submit your nominations for the Test of Time and Impactful Community Leader awards by April 11. www.datavisualizationsociety.org/iib-awards-s...

One of my capstone students is fielding a survey on clothing and feelings. If you have a chance, please add to her data set: forms.gle/eNvcsYdw515Z...

Consumer Motivation Survey

Thank you for participating in this survey for use in my Data Analytics and Visualization program Capstone project at MICA. If you have any questions or comments, please reach out! Thank you again. -...

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Speaker applications are still open for Outlier 2025, the annual conference that brings the community together to evolve the possibilities of data viz. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🥧 Love pie but had too much? Variety is the spice of life—and data viz! Pie charts are great, but line and bar charts can serve up the same data in fresh ways. 🍰 Check out @amycesal.com's latest everviz blog post for tasty alternatives: www.everviz.com/blog/past-th... What’s your favorite pie? 🥧

Past the Pie Chart - everviz

If you would like to switch up your chart visualizations, here are a few alternatives to the pie chart and what they work well for.

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Speaker applications for the @datavizsociety.bsky.social's annual conference, Outlier, are open! Apply by March 15: buff.ly/4bhlQrT

Outlier 2025 Speaker Application

Welcome to the Outlier 2025 Speaker Application! Outlier 2025 will be hosted in Miami, FL (USA) at University of Miami Newman Alumni Center from June 11-13, 2025. We're hoping to fill the room with +2...

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I'm excited to be a judge for the Information is Beautiful Awards again this year! Longlist announcement coming March 10th

A sign that accessibility and data viz is important: the most downloaded episode of the Data Stories Podcast ( @moritzstefaner.bsky.social @ebertini.bsky.social ) is the episode about accessibility with the amazing @fossheim.bsky.social Check out the data: observablehq.com/@moritzstefa...

#info+ 2025 conference announced!! informationplusconference.com/2025/

Information+ Conference 2025

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Great article on animation for #dataviz by @eagereyes.org and @allisonhorst.bsky.social from @observablehq.com 👏🏻 observablehq.com/blog/effecti...

Five ways to effectively use animation in data visualization

Animation can be a distraction in data visualization. Or, when applied effectively, it can enhance user engagement, reveal trends, and help viewers track patterns across metrics. Here are five ways to...

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Information is Beautiful Awards deadline approaching: January 31 Just a few more days to enter the awards: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/awards/2024

Today is our @datavizsociety.bsky.social Annual General Meeting - my last as the Executive Director. I'm so excited for what DVS will continue to do in the years to come, as we need #dataviz now more than ever to make sense of the world. Join us at 2pm EST: www.youtube.com/live/WJfMbU2...

This is your unofficial reminder to enter your work in the Information is Beautiful Awards until January 31. www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/awards/2024 Students and members of the public whose work has not been commissioned or published professionally may submit their work for FREE.

Very cute free avatar creator from Notion: faces.notion.com H/T Sidebar.io (which is back!)

A big new piece on proportional representation with some nice viz from @leedrutman.bsky.social Jesse Wegman and Aileen Clarke substack.com/redirect/b02...

Save the date for Outlier Conf 2025

Data Visualization Society@datavizsociety.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌴 Save the date to join Outlier 2025 in Miami, Florida! 📊 Outlier brings together all corners of the #dataviz community to stretch our vision of what we can do with data. Join our email list to be the first to hear about our call for speakers and when tickets go on sale: mailchi.mp/datavisualiz...

I’m here for this cranberry sauce bar chart made of cranberry sauce from @axios.com nice work @daniellealberti.bsky.social