Data Visualization A Practical Introduction

Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co

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...

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

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.

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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...

A group of 11 people professionally dressed

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

More information on our website: www.datavizstyleguide.com

11 Review Regularly

12 It's Okay to Have a Different Font for Data Viz

13 It's Good to Show Bad Examples

14 Include Accessibility

15 Teach the Fundamentals

06 Choose the Right Format for Your Organization

7 Use Tiered Guidance to Avoid Overwhelming

08 Limit Your Colors & Include the Whole Rainbow

09 Be Clear & Concise

10 Onboarding Matters

01 Co-create With Designers, Developers, & Doubters

02 Engage With Your Stakeholders

03 Iterate Like Crazy

04 Know What You're Working With

05 Be Practical

2 people standing on stage in front of a screen

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

7 was @datagrazing.bsky.social and I was 8.

You can catch the talk for the next 2 weeks with a virtual ticket for Outlier conference or wait a few months until the videos are on YouTube.

It’s too much to explain in a message!

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!

Photo of me, a white woman with short brown hair, in front of the data viz society step and repeat

Excited to speak soon at #Outlier2025

View of the ocean with boats on the water

Morning views #Outlier2025

Registration — Outlier

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...

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...

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...

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. -...

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...

Whoh! Cool!

Call for Outlier Speakers - apply by march 15

Speaker applications are still open for Outlier 2025, the annual conference that brings the community together to evolve the possibilities of data viz.

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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.

🥧 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? 🥧

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...

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

I'm a judge for the information is beautiful awards

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

scatterplot of dots over time with total downloads on the y axis

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...

Information+ Conference 2025

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

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...

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

observablehq.com/blog/effecti...

Call for viz: January 31, 2025

Information is Beautiful Awards deadline approaching: January 31

Just a few more days to enter the awards: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/awards/2024