Bridget Cogley
@cogley.bsky.social
#FunctionalAestheticsTheBook coauthor. Maker of vizzes, breaker of calcs, Tableau-old (HOF). @windscogley other places. she/her
I plan to keep doing this work; to push the boundaries of visual storytelling and finding new ways to make complex information clear, engaging, and human. If your organization is expanding or investing in visual storytelling, cartography, or graphics, I would love to chat about opportunities.
It may have been 6 years ago, but still a hard day... Be gentle with folks in your life.
BIG NEWS! We've updated the website of the Open Visualization Academy, where you can see all its contributors: openvisualizationacademy.org This is the announcement in our newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/we-re-back... #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVis 📊 1/x
I'll be taking this and you should too!
Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁@frank.computer · 12mo agoI just finished recording my course materials for @albertocairo.com's Open Visualization Academy. 🎉 I'm looking forward to being able to share the first-ever comprehensive online course on Accessibility in Visualization. Stay tuned for this January! openvisualizationacademy.org
Yup, finally took the time to fix some things on my website. Now my Hope datavisualization is to be seen again. It is a personal project on the people who gave me #hope throughout my life, each their own galaxy in my universe 🌌 #dataviz #illustration www.studioterp.nl/hope-a-perso...
That these programs exist excites me. Someday, I'll find one close enough. You should definitely take a look.
jonathan zong@jonathanzong.com · last yr.Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026. data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?
“She painted a very clear picture about survival.”
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As someone who has spent far too much time grieving and who works in tech, I'm going to level with you: The human brain isn't equipped to handle this. Grief means learning that person is gone. Digital interaction feels real to us. This sends mixed signals. Which one wins?
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · last yr.Seeing the companies that literally enable deadbots acting shocked, simply shocked, that people are doing this is truly wild. I have a LOT of thoughts in this arena and I'm threading a few interesting reads on deadbots and grief below!
Today's distraction brought to you by, well, distraction... You think the task is simple enough, until self-service everything wins the day. If you need a distraction, enjoy. It'll make me feel less bad about mine. www.tableaufit.com/the-end-of-s...
The End of Self-Service: When we ask too much from our users
Has this ever happened to you: you settle in for what you think is going to be a moderate level task and find it turns into an Olympic endeavor? Perhaps, you’re building a dashboard, a user t…
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Satire, art, humor, beauty, pleasure, creativity. These are not luxuries, they are necessities. We need all of these things to keep bringing light and hope to the world, in a dark time.
I'll also add it reduces the opportunities for any life-saving/changing acts of compassion. I paid cash for my first degree because I couldn't navigate financial aid. Many times, I ate one meal a day. Sometimes, someone's compassion saved me that day.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.I get that phones seem ubiquitous these days, but I worry that appifying college life could end up exacerbating inequalities and making life harder for already vulnerable students. 1/ 🧵 today.iu.edu/live/news/46...
This weekend, I spent time learning to breathe with my body - to open wide and to use my arms, hands, and breath in alignment. From a taekwondo form. People hear I do martial arts and focus mostly on defensive abilities. But there's more. www.tableaufit.com/the-chasm-be...
The chasm between us and our users
Data workers live in an odd space – exposed to the hidden patterns of the world without often being immersed in the conditions of it. We listen to our users, hear their stories, but how much …
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More #grief posts... It's been 10 months today since my mother died. It'll also be my wedding anniversary in 2 days. September is coming which means: My mother will have been gone a year, My stepfather 4 years, My best friend 6 years... It's heavy carrying these and so many other losses.
Yes Apple, I know you updated. For the 20th time today, no, I don't want to learn how to type to Siri. Please stop. I remember the days when tech didn't harass you about minutiae. Yes, I saw it and I don't want it. So tired of hostile design patterns everywhere. They are a product of fascism.
📣 In this short essay, I describe how actions of the current administration constitute ➡️ state terrorism ⬅️ and outline how US universities (and professors and students and staff) can survive state terrorism, as people before us have survived. academeblog.org/2025/08/05/h...
How US Universities Can Survive State Terrorism
BY CATHERINE D’IGNAZIO As a professor at MIT, I find myself navigating strange waters these days. Last semester, I advised the thesis of a student who left the country because she did not fee…
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CW: #grief What is mourning without ritual? I've had 3 big deaths in the past few years with little to no mourning rituals. What happens when you have no one to grieve with, when there's no one to show up? What happens when you yourself have no traditions?
Additional note to companies rolling out AI as the first line. When you attempt to label AI as "human help" eventually all your customers learn to treat real people like crap. Label your AI appropriately.
The medium is the message. You're on your device, performing intimacy in so many ways - comforting a friend thru chat, supporting others by elevating their posts, and even providing care by telling others your working hours aren't theirs. But what if those people aren't real? 📊 🧵
What do you do when you strip it all away? Existential 📊 thread. The question came up again recently: what do you do? My generic answer: I work in data. When people ask for more details, I may expand: I freelance, I make products, I teach... None of this really answers the question, not well.
And this is why users ask for the data. 📊 Because in 2020, stimulus checks were mailed. Rather than spend in uncertain times, more Americans banked the money. Why are less saving now? How many are unemployed and burned through savings? How many just don't have the extra to save? ...and so on.
USAFacts@usafacts.org · last yr.💸 Are you saving more or less than you did during COVID? Chances are, it’s less. In 2020, the average personal #savings rate hit a record high of 32%. So far, in 2025, the average personal savings rate is 4.3% — even lower than pre-pandemic levels. #Finance #DataViz
*slams it down* I finished it My article About AI use, impacts, etc, with lots and lots of links It's uh Really long
Opinion: Is it worth it to use AI? Some things you should know
AI has shown us again and again how it aims to change our society. Is this technology really "here to stay" and what's it doing to us?
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A part of my grief journey has been adding in inefficiencies. I'm a natural optimizer, so this is work. The inefficiencies are where joy actually lives.
Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.
My mother's birthday is tomorrow. IYKYK, grief loves to pop up near these days (and fill as much time as possible). I decided to make a visual showing how you change with grief. (Also apt with just everything) www.tableaufit.com/mini-project...
Mini-Project: Mapping Grief
Call this the anecdata / sketching fuzzy data edition…. Lots of models exist for discussing grief. I wanted to provide a rough visual for how I think about the transformation process of grief…
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I really try not to write about AI. Too many conversations forced my hand (again)... www.tableaufit.com/love-it-loat...
Love It, Loathe It, and Lift It: The Missing Conversation on AI
I’ve sat through perhaps too many conversations on AI this month. Whether in-person (hi Outlier), online (oh, the discourse), or anywhere else I happened to be, GenAI is specifically on the m…
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Take time to watch this talk... Especially if you are thinking about recalibrating, reimagining, or any other re-(verb) word you want to throw at it. So much resonates. It's honest, personal, and will get you thinking. I know I sure am.
Sonja Kuijpers | STUDIO TERP@sonjakuijpers.bsky.social · last yr.A short #thread on my Recalibrate talk at Data+Women. Be welcome to listen to the complete talk if you aren't familiar with my work and/or if you want a recap on my projects. #dataviz #mentalhealth #labels #identity 1/4 Do let me know what think/feel 🙏 youtu.be/RD7foA0naK8?...
People such as Jesse Singal, Washington Post's Megan McArdle, or NYTimes's Pamela Paul and Azeen Ghorayshi laid the groundwork for this discriminatory decision. They are directly responsible for it. If criticized, they'll use "objectivity" and "balance" as a shield, as their ilk always does.
jasmine mithani@jazzmyth.bsky.social · last yr.SCOTUS rules 6-3 Tennessee's ban does not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment @shoeleatherkate.bsky.social @oriion.bsky.social @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2025/06/supr...
Skrmetti seems like one of many modern SCOTUS decisions that future generations will look back on as the Dred Scott of our time
The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity