Data by Design

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So very amazing to see @datavisfriendly.bsky.social, the creator of the Milestones in the History of Data Visualization website, my reference text for so long, with DATA BY DESIGN in his hands! (And check out www.datavis.ca/milestones if you haven't already!)

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Michael Friendly@datavisfriendly.bsky.social

#dataviz I got a lovely gift in the mail today, @laurenfkennedy.bsky.social Data by Design The historical and modern content is amazing, but I'm also drooling over the wonderful look and page design 💯

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Still a few more back here in Atlanta! Get yours here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Claudia (they/she)@claudiaeberger.bsky.social

Data mail! I think my copy of the actual book should arrive later this week. I can't wait to stick this in.

Hey, New Yorkers! Join us on Thursday, October 29 for our NYC book launch event at P&T Knitwear from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Please note that this is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating. Register here: shorturl.at/oe5Sx

Join @laurenfklein.bsky.social @chronictanvi.bsky.social and Silas Munro for a conversation moderated by @shannonmattern.bsky.social.

We’re excited for you to dig in as well! Thanks for your support!

Will Allen@williamlallen.bsky.social

Very excited to dig into @dataxdesign.bsky.social by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and team! This mode of thinking has already shaped how I’m planning my next project on the political drivers and consequences of visualizing information.

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Most important professional goal--a cake with a picture of my book on it--now achieved, deliciously! Thanks to colleagues, friends, family, and more who came out on Tuesday to celebrate the release of DATA BY DESIGN! Next up, NYC!

Data by Design@dataxdesign.bsky.social

We hosted the first of our three official book launch events at Charis Books & More last night in Atlanta 🍑 Moderator: @kanarinka.bsky.social Panelists: @laurenfklein.bsky.social @marguread.bsky.social @chronictanvi.bsky.social Shiyao Li Jay Varner Enjoy a few photos from the event here:

With Data by Design out in the world, we’re celebrating the books that helped shape it. 📚 THREAD ⬇️

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The values and commitments of the field of digital humanities underlie the entire project, and especially chapter 6, on labor. DEBATES IN THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES is the book series that @laurenfklein.bsky.social has coedited (with Matthew K. Gold) for over a decade.

If you’ve read thus far — thank you! Find Data By Design online or at a bookstore near you to see how we weave this picks through our book. dataxdesign.io

With Data by Design out in the world, we’re celebrating the books that helped shape it. 📚 THREAD ⬇️

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DEAR SCIENCE by @demonicgrounds.bsky.social fundamentally changed how we understood the idea and origins of "situated knowledges," allowing us to see how knowledge systems are multiple, and exist in relation to each other.

From WAYWARD LIVES, we learned to direct our attention to those on the margins of the archives, such as the student contributors to Du Bois's famous data portraits who we center in Chapter 5.

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The influence of Edward Tufte is impossible to overstate. In many ways, this entire book is a counterhistory of VISUAL DISPLAY. This is particularly true of Chapter 2, on William Playfair, where we explore the man behind the charts, and the people behind his data.

@maxliboiron.bsky.social's POLLUTION IS COLONIALISM guided in our anticolonial approach, and was the voice that kept us accountable as we designed our charts of the colonial archive in Chapter 3.

With Data by Design out in the world, we’re celebrating the books that helped shape it. 📚 THREAD ⬇️

Every chapter is part of a much larger conversation—built on the work of historians, designers, scholars, and storytellers whose ideas helped us see data visualization and its relationship with power in new ways.

All research is built on what has come before. We learned so much from art historian Cheryl Finley's COMMITTED TO MEMORY, whic tracks the creation, reception, and reimagining of the image that serves as the centerpiece of Chapter 1.

dataxdesign.ioData by DesignAn interactive history of data visualization 1789-1900.

Enjoy Data by Design here: dataxdesign.io

DATA BY DESIGN IS OUT NOW🥳! There is still time to receive a custom riso-printed bookplate, signed by members of our project team, which you can stick in the front of your copy of the book when it arrives.

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Just tell us that you’ve preordered the book using the form linked here: shorturl.at/z8YHZ

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Chicago! See you Friday with this amazing crew!

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com

Truly, what an honor to be part of this cohort of books—every one a banger. We’re all celebrating together on Oct. 23 with the American Studies Association’s DH Caucus. Come join!

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Truly, what an honor to be part of this cohort of books—every one a banger. We’re all celebrating together on Oct. 23 with the American Studies Association’s DH Caucus. Come join!

That’s us! Data by Design is available today from @mitpress.bsky.social!

MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social

New this week from the MIT Press. Congratulations authors! 📚👇

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Today is the day! DATA BY DESIGN is out in the world! With immense gratitude to the entire project team, to @gita2.bsky.social, and to @mitpress.bsky.social, for turning this vision into reality. We're so excited to be able to celebrate with all of you!

Here's what early readers — Giorgia Lupi, @albertocairo.com, Miriah Meyer and @monachalabi.bsky.social had to say about Data by Design! Preorder your copy today from @mitpress, we're excited to hear what you think.

Data by Design will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social on Tuesday, October 20 and you are all invited to celebrate with us at one of our book launch events! Join the celebration: dataxdesign.io/events

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"An instant classic. [Data By Design] celebrates data visualization while also casting light on the dark parts of its history ... with rigor and grace." — @albertocairo.com "Data By Design" shows how visualization can lead to a more liberatory world. Out Oct 20th: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

Join us for our Boston book launch on Thursday, November 12 where Lauren Klein and Tanvi Sharma will be in conversation with Arvind Satyanarayan, director of the Visualization Group at MIT, in the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.

@laurenfklein.bsky.social @chronictanvi.bsky.social @bpl.boston.gov @bplmaps.bsky.social

dataxdesign.ioEvents: Data by DesignBook talks, launches, and appearances for Data by Design, by Lauren Klein (MIT Press, 2026).

This event is currently at capacity. Join the waitlist to attend this program: dataxdesign.io/events

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Our “why” is simple: to show why #dataviz matters. Pictured in screenshots: @laurenfklein.bsky.social on the PolicyViz podcast: policyviz.com/podcast/laur... Data by Design will be available by @mitpress.bsky.social on Tuesday, October 20. Preorder the book today: dataxdesign.io

Chapter 3 of Data by Design focuses on the subject of “People,” considering how we as designers, often brought into projects partway through, might design visualizations in ways that enable the *creation*of knowledge without the *extraction*of knowledge.

One work that we highlight is Birch Bark (2022) by contemporary artist Sarah Sense. Here, Sense employs her own ancestral basket-weaving techniques as a way to interrupt the unidirectional process of knowledge extraction, redirecting some of the map’s meaning-making force.

Already preordered Data by Design? If so, be sure to share a proof of purchase to receive a beautiful risk bookplate signed by members of our team: l1nk.dev/xj7qaam Haven’t preordered yet? It’s not too late: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618... Data by Design, out October 20 by @mitpress.bsky.social.

In this snippet from her appearance on the PolicyViz Podcast @policyviz.bsky.social , @laurenfklein.bsky.social shares her “why” for writing Data by Design and highlights the current political stakes of research. Listen to the full conversation wherever you get your podcasts.

🥳🥳🥳 Come celebrate with us live at one of our three book launch events in Atlanta, New York, and Boston: dataxdesign.io/events Data by Design will be available on October 20 from @mitpress.bsky.social.

Lauren Klein@laurenfklein.bsky.social

It's here, it's here! DATA BY DESIGN is here in my hands, and it is beautiful!!! So much gratitude to @mitpress.bsky.social @chronictanvi.bsky.social and the (not on bluesky) rest of the team for making this book a reality!

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We are two weeks away from our Oct. 20 pub date with @mitpress.bsky.social! Come celebrate with us and @kanarinka.bsky.social at Charis Books and More in Atlanta for the first of our three book launch events! charisbooksandmore.com/event/2026-1...

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Upcoming EACW Research Seminar: “Radical Data Histories”. Prof. @laurenfklein.bsky.social in conversation with our own Dr. Jo Taylor on Klein's new book from @mitpress.bsky.social: Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science. Thurs 8 Oct, 4-5 pm, Sam Alex A113.

Our postcards are hot off the presses just like our book will be on October 20!

Lauren Klein@laurenfklein.bsky.social

Book postcards are here! Dm me your address and I’ll send you one!

See you in the Big Apple 🍎, @shannonmattern.bsky.social!

Data by Design@dataxdesign.bsky.social

Join us on Thursday, October 29 for our New York book launch event at P&T Knitwear Bookstore from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lauren-kle...

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Thrilled to launch DATA BY DESIGN into the world with @shannonmattern.bsky.social at P&T Knitwear in NYC on October 29th! Also feat. @chronictanvi.bsky.social and Silas Munro and maybe even an art show if we can get our acts together!

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Join us on Thursday, October 29 for our New York book launch event at P&T Knitwear Bookstore from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lauren-kle...

Join us on Thursday, October 29 for our New York book launch event at P&T Knitwear Bookstore from 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lauren-kle...

Our NYC book launch will include a conversation with Shannon Mattern featuring Data by Design co-authors @laurenfklein.bsky.social , @chronictanvi.bsky.social , and Silas Munro, followed by a book signing. Please note that this is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating.

Already pre-ordered Data by Design? Submit a proof of purchase to receive your own riso bookplate signed by members of our project team. forms.gle/9fVQwb77QRVg... Pre-order Data by Design, out October 20 by @mitpress.bsky.social, at dataxdesign.io.

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Join us on 10/20 for our Atlanta book launch event at Charis Books and More: @laurenfklein.bsky.social @chronictanvi.bsky.social @marguread.bsky.social @kanarinka.bsky.social This hybrid event is free, but registration is required for virtual attendance🍑 charisbooksandmore.com/event/2026-1...

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We're one month away from our official pub date! Join us in Atlanta, New York, Boston, or online for one of our book release events! More at: dataxdesign.io/events