Amy Cesal

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...

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/...

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!

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...

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...

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...

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? 🥧

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

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/

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

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

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

Thankful to @propublica.org for their investigative work. This story about the incoming OMB director wanting to put civil servants in trauma is. Well, I don’t have words right now. I do have their handy link for gov employees to report bad shit securely www.propublica.org/tips/federal...

You probably know me as the person who made charts out of play doh: www.amycesal.com/portfolio#/d... Or as a co-founder of @datavizsociety.bsky.social I want you to know me as a person who can help you build a data viz style guide: www.datavizstyleguide.com

This 2018 piece about how minuscule pockets are in women’s jeans is definitely my claim to dataviz fame ✨ pudding.cool/2018/08/pock... It was so much fun to build this one with @jadiehm.bsky.social and I love how much people still enjoy it 🥰

New post by @datagrazing.bsky.social about why having a chart library in your data viz style guide is helpful! Check it out: www.datavizstyleguide.com/bestof/chart...

If new bluesky is now old twitter, I'm going back to my classic profile photo. I still have those sunnies, earring and haircut, so it counts, right? Should I add in a few more wrinkles with AI?

So many more people here now! Re-sharing the incomplete but useful data viz starter pack: go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy

Finally sharing some of my and my amazing team's #dataviz work that we did at Morning Consult www.amycesal.com/portfolio#/m...

Electoral College, but make it tetris

Did you know I enjoy working on charts for academic or non-fiction books? Take a look at some of the book graphics I've done for authors like @leedrutman.bsky.social and contact me for similar work www.amycesal.com/academic-boo...

Brilliant use of visual metaphor and encoding data. Each state is represented by mazes of different complexity depending how hard it is to get an abortion in that state. From the Pudding By Jan Diehm & Michelle Pera-McGhee pudding.cool/2024/10/abor...

New post from Jon Schwabish about how the Baltimore City Data Fellows data viz design guidelines include recommendations for dashboard layout #dashboards www.datavizstyleguide.com/bestof/insig...

In order to highlight some of the unique and good things from data viz style guides Jon Schwabish, Max Graze, Alan Wilson and myself are publishing a new series highlighting things we like about data viz guidelines and why they work. Check it out: www.datavizstyleguide.com/bestof

We're looking to hire a Visual Editor on the Editorial team at Rest of World. I'm very invested in finding the best person as they work closely with my team on our biggest (award winning) projects (International ok, remote friendly)

If you do any sort of data viz professionally, personally, or even only occasionally make a chart or two, take the Data Visualization Society Annual State of the Industry survey. It's a few minutes of your time and your perspective is valuable. www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2024-n...

I will be at Outlier Data Viz Conference in less than a month! Tickets for in person in Chicago are available until the end of May. If you can't make it in person, get a virtual ticket for just $99! www.eventbrite.com/cc/outlier-2...

BIG NEWS! I just got accepted to adopt a cicada! Which means I will paint it and it will be displayed somewhere in Chicago. Of course it's going to be a data viz cicada. Ideas welcome. www.cicada2024.com