Zane Wolf

You and @datacitron.bsky.social did a fantastic job. We could see the joy and passion you both have for the book and it was so fun seeing the behind the scenes.

And yes, all for not having to haul a heavy bag of books! 😂

Thank you @questionsindataviz.com for capturing such a fun moment! :D

Super proud of the entire IIB Awards team for all the work we put in just to get to this point. Can't wait to see what the judges make of this year's longlisted submissions!

We're hiring an Operations Manager. Apply by February 28, 2025

We’re hiring! Apply if you are a highly organized professional with experience managing processes and budgets across spreadsheets. This is a part-time, remote role. Apply by February 28, 2025: https://buff.ly/4i5BpoU

Picture of a sentence, "Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusive standards have become established practice in global tech firms both when hiring and when developing new products." In light of recent governmental changes, this hits different.

Oh.......welp.

A boon laying on a wood table titled "Design for All? Inclusive Design Today", and a greeting card sent by my friend with the book.

This week's #dataviz book was sent to me by a former MICA classmate and I can't be more excited. Not just for learning more about #inclusivedesign but because it is awesome to have found incredible people thru MICA, WID, and DVS and we're able to share and contribute to each other's journeys.

Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

How much do you think exploratory vs explanatory factors into this?

Great answer! :) How do you choose which projects to talk about or show during interviews?

Mentorship — Data Visualization Society

@datavizsociety.bsky.social's Mentorship Program is still looking for incredible people to join as mentors for our 8th cohort!

To be a mentor: your willingness to help another achieve their goals, be it learning a tool, making a #dataviz, or designing a portfolio.

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Do you practice elevator pitches for specific projects? What details matter most?

📊 W.E.B. Du Bois and Data Visualization in the Fight for Civil Rights

In 1900, Du Bois created 60+ charts to illustrate Black Americans’ progress at the Paris Expo. The Du Bois Challenge 2025 invites participants to recreate them using modern tools.

📈 Join here: github.com/ajstarks/dub...
#dataviz

This leads me to wonder about the MVP of portfolio projects. Early career folks share whatever they have, generally, and working professionals share their best works, which could have taken months to make. But what bare minimum requirements would side projects need to meet to go into a portfolio?

For careers like this, where it might be understood by the majority that portfolios are minimal to non-existent, how important are they in the hiring process? Do you feel you even need to put in the effort to create/maintain one?

I've remade my portfolio three times already, twice for exactly the reason you describe - frameworks get updated & it's just as easy to sit down & recreate it from scratch as to try untangling the chaos of errors & updates. I just remade it in wix cause ain't nobody got time for that anymore, haha.

Why every 5 years? And updating content, aesthetics, or both?

Re #Dataviz Portfolios, early career folks are mostly concerned with making and populating one, but what do non-early-career folks struggle with re: portfolios?

Once you have one, what's next? Maintaining and updating? Updating aesthetics? Remaking it to go from personal to business?

Last day to submit! The deadline is 11:59pm UTC or 3:59pm PST.

Kicking off our first data challenge collab of 2025 with @ajstarks.bsky.social's #DuBoisChallenge2025!

It's open to everyone and winners are chosen from the DVS slack channel #challenge-dubois so be sure to post what you make there each week.

Looking forward to seeing all the creations!!

Clips from the road to El Dorado with characters saying, "Both." "Both." "Both is good."

@ifbookspod.bsky.social could you do Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg?? The vibe I'm getting is, white man discovers the best ways to communicate and they're exactly what women have been doing all along.

All with your great support and feedback!!

Thank you!! 😊

Angled photo of a page in the SciAm February issue. The title reads, The Astronaut Club: a close look at every person who's ever gone to space.

Angled photo revealing a page in the SciAm Feb issue covered in multi-colored rectangles representing individuals, each with a different collection of symbols encoding information about their trips to space.

Wouldn't have been possible without the amazing graphics team at SciAm, @jenchristiansen.com, @unamandita.bsky.social, and space feature editor @clarakm.bsky.social.

Everyone Who Has Ever Been to Space, Charted Space traveler demographics have shifted over time

My 4-page 📊 spread for the Feb issue of @sciam.bsky.social is now live in digital format! I take a look at everyone who has been to space or earned their astronaut wings.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/ever...

Constructive feedback is welcome. This was a labor of love & I'm very proud of it.

Our 2024 State of the #dataviz Industry Report summarizes 861 responses about the state of data viz, the people who make it, the challenges they face, and where the field is headed. Full report here:

Mentorship Program. February - May 2025. A 3-month program for mentors and mentees to connect and build meaningful relationships. A logo of the Data Visualization Society. An illustration of two people standing next to each other in a frame.

The DVS Mentorship Program returns! Apply by February 2 for the February - May cohort. This program offers mentees early in their #dataviz career an opportunity to work with a mentor who has 5+ years of professional experience in the field.

Apply here: https://buff.ly/3YzvbVT

This is in my top-five #dataviz articles that I recommend to people. Important information on the unintended consequences of our design decisions, and so well communicated!

A head shot of a young adult woman with long brown-purple-red hair and short bangs. The title of Dea's talk is "Having Fun with Code to Create Unique Data Viz and Art".

A head shot of a young adult woman with short light brown hair in a half-updo style and light-pink, round glasses, smiling directly at camera. The title of Alli's talk is "Step-by-Step: How I upskilled from Analyst to Data Visualization Designer".

Our last two 📊 Q&A with an Expert seminars are now up on YT! Be sure to check them out because they were absolute bangers.

December feat. @deabankova.bsky.social: shorturl.at/M5tls

January feat. @allitorban.bsky.social: shorturl.at/vfsTl

And follow @datavizsociety.bsky.social for more events!

Hold the Line — Loud Numbers

While parts of LA are burning the sonification of LoudNubers comes to mind: they created a data sonification on the wildfires of Canada 2023. Eerie, disturbing and admirable piece. The data is sonified with different sounds and layers, narrated by a survivor.
#dataviz #fires
Listen here: