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Amy Cesal

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Freelance information designer and data viz consultant. 👩🏼‍🏫 Instructor @ MICA Data Analytics and Visualization grad program 📊 Product Evangelist @everviz https://www.amycesal.com

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jul 9

Did you attend Outlier Conference in person? Photos are up (aka I have a new headshot)

Professional photos: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jun 13

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

A group of 11 people professionally dressed

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jun 12

More information on our website: www.datavizstyleguide.com

Data Visualization Style Guidelines

www.datavizstyleguide.com

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jun 12

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

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jun 12

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

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jun 12

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

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jun 12

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

2 people standing on stage in front of a screen

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jun 12

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!

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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · Jun 11

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!

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jun 11

Excited to speak soon at #Outlier2025

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

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jun 11

Morning views #Outlier2025

View of the ocean with boats on the water

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jun 3

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...

Registration — Outlier

www.outlierconf.com

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · May 8

I am unapologetically telling you right now that Chicago is going to be insufferable about this, there is still a fading cardboard John Paul II in a Michigan Ave storefront looking out at Grant Park because he spoke there *once.*

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · May 7

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...

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...

www.everviz.com

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Mar 31

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...

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Mar 24

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...

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. -...

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Mar 21

Whoh! Cool!

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Mar 10

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...

Call for Outlier Speakers - apply by march 15

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everviz @everviz.bsky.social · Feb 25

🥧 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? 🥧

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.

www.everviz.com

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Feb 25

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

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...

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Feb 19

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

I'm a judge for the information is beautiful awards

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Feb 13

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...

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

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Jan Willem Tulp @tulpinteractive.com · Jan 29

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

Information+ Conference 2025

informationplusconference.com

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John Alexis Guerra Gomez @johnguerra.bsky.social · Jan 28

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

observablehq.com/blog/effecti...

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...

observablehq.com

Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · Jan 29

Information is Beautiful Awards deadline approaching: January 31

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

Call for viz: January 31, 2025