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Bridget Cogley

@cogley.bsky.social

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#FunctionalAestheticsTheBook coauthor. Maker of vizzes, breaker of calcs, Tableau-old (HOF). @windscogley other places. she/her

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Jun 24

I really try not to write about AI. Too many conversations forced my hand (again)...

www.tableaufit.com/love-it-loat...

Love It, Loathe It, and Lift It: The Missing Conversation on AI

I’ve sat through perhaps too many conversations on AI this month. Whether in-person (hi Outlier), online (oh, the discourse), or anywhere else I happened to be, GenAI is specifically on the m…

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · 27d

It may have been 6 years ago, but still a hard day...

Be gentle with folks in your life.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · Sep 25

BIG NEWS! We've updated the website of the Open Visualization Academy, where you can see all its contributors: openvisualizationacademy.org

This is the announcement in our newsletter: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/we-re-back...

#dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVis 📊

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Sep 25

I'll be taking this and you should too!

Frank Elavsky ⌁ @frank.computer · Sep 25

I just finished recording my course materials for @albertocairo.com's Open Visualization Academy. 🎉

I'm looking forward to being able to share the first-ever comprehensive online course on Accessibility in Visualization. Stay tuned for this January!

openvisualizationacademy.org

Open Visualization Academy

openvisualizationacademy.org

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Sonja Kuijpers | STUDIO TERP @sonjakuijpers.bsky.social · Sep 24

Yup, finally took the time to fix some things on my website. Now my Hope datavisualization is to be seen again.
It is a personal project on the people who gave me #hope throughout my life, each their own galaxy in my universe 🌌
#dataviz #illustration

www.studioterp.nl/hope-a-perso...

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Sep 14

And lately coincides with active phases of child care and peak growth periods at work. And leaves you wholly expended afterwards with fewer peer supports. And most elder care is a patchwork that requires extensive pay to play or charity that covers far too little.

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Sep 11

In a linguistics class I learned when everyone is used to a certain level of violence in words (ex, hate speech being fully allowed), it easily moves to violence because that taboo is lost.

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ultimately, false confidence was rewarded every time. Culturally, that's what gets rewarded here too.

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Sep 8

My earliest education felt so high stakes. Even when I went back later, cost played a role in it being high stakes.

There also wasn't enough time for dialogue, to even refine where I didn't know, and to clarify between what I did and didn't know.

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Sep 4

That these programs exist excites me. Someday, I'll find one close enough. You should definitely take a look.

jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · Sep 4

Interested in accessibility, visualization, or data ethics? I'm looking for Ph.D. students to join @data-and-design.org at CU Boulder Info Sci in Fall 2026.

data-and-design.org/recruiting/phd

Recruiting Ph.D. Students for Fall 2026

We are an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Colorado Boulder that uses design to understand and reimagine socio-technical systems.

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Sep 2

Chances are high, he probably lamented the data lag a lot. It may have been in smaller circles, but my guess is they wanted to preserve his optimism about the numbers getting better.

For hard analytical types, this may not feel like a faithful rendering, but goal is spirit of the message.

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Sep 2

If I recall correctly, this book and his biography were originally one book and in translation to English were split.

As someone who has ghost-written for someone before, you're re-using things they've said prior, notes, and established history.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · Aug 27

Octavia Butler predicted our dystopian present. What can a futurist learn from her chilling accuracy?

“She painted a very clear picture about survival.”

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 28

Anecdotally, it looks like certain voices are being suppressed. I'm personally wondering if we saw the last of the democratic digital sphere.

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Real (living) people grow. They piss you off, challenge you, and ideally respond to your social signals in a reasonable way.

AI definitely does not.

The worst part - these technologies can alter memory, which is malleable at recall. You can lose what you thought you had.

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 27

Think of a phone call you had recently. Can you imagine how that person moved during the call?

Chances are, yes. Not only that, you're probably pretty accurate too.

Video and audio feel real. They're designed to be immersive.

The problem with replicas is someone else controls them.

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 27

As someone who has spent far too much time grieving and who works in tech, I'm going to level with you:

The human brain isn't equipped to handle this.

Grief means learning that person is gone.

Digital interaction feels real to us.

This sends mixed signals. Which one wins?

s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · Aug 27

Seeing the companies that literally enable deadbots acting shocked, simply shocked, that people are doing this is truly wild. I have a LOT of thoughts in this arena and I'm threading a few interesting reads on deadbots and grief below!

AI 'deadbots' are persuasive — and researchers say they're primed for monetization

The digital afterlife industry may near $80 billion in a decade, fueled by AI "deadbots." Tech firms see profit. But experts warn of troubling consequences.

www.npr.org

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 27

With your permission, I'd like to use it as an example in my ethics class, particularly around goals / intent.

WIP PowerPoint slide with Name the values as the title, and the question, what really drives these values.

Nick Sousanis is cited and his comic sits to the right

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 26

Today's distraction brought to you by, well, distraction...

You think the task is simple enough, until self-service everything wins the day.

If you need a distraction, enjoy. It'll make me feel less bad about mine.

www.tableaufit.com/the-end-of-s...

The End of Self-Service: When we ask too much from our users

Has this ever happened to you: you settle in for what you think is going to be a moderate level task and find it turns into an Olympic endeavor? Perhaps, you’re building a dashboard, a user t…

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Aug 21

Satire, art, humor, beauty, pleasure, creativity.

These are not luxuries, they are necessities.

We need all of these things to keep bringing light and hope to the world, in a dark time.

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'll also add it reduces the opportunities for any life-saving/changing acts of compassion.

I paid cash for my first degree because I couldn't navigate financial aid. Many times, I ate one meal a day.

Sometimes, someone's compassion saved me that day.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 21

I get that phones seem ubiquitous these days, but I worry that appifying college life could end up exacerbating inequalities and making life harder for already vulnerable students. 1/ 🧵
today.iu.edu/live/news/46...

CrimsonCard goes digital, offering easy access to your IU ID and services

The digital CrimsonCard allows users to enter buildings, redeem meal points and print documents the same as before, but right from their phone or watch.

today.iu.edu

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 18

This weekend, I spent time learning to breathe with my body - to open wide and to use my arms, hands, and breath in alignment.

From a taekwondo form.

People hear I do martial arts and focus mostly on defensive abilities. But there's more.

www.tableaufit.com/the-chasm-be...

The chasm between us and our users

Data workers live in an odd space – exposed to the hidden patterns of the world without often being immersed in the conditions of it. We listen to our users, hear their stories, but how much …

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Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 9

Hope you get answers soon. Unsolved health mysteries are not fun.

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 6

And it's 11 months, but really, time is malleable as all get out anymore.

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 6

The general message - whether intended or not - is that grief should stay in its bedroom with the curtains drawn.

But sunlight helps.
So does a kind hand.

Spread kindness today. You never know who might need it. 💖

Bridget Cogley @cogley.bsky.social · Aug 6

This goes extra if you're generally labeled "difficult to consume" for whatever reason.

Grumpy cats sit in their grief and can seem hard to comfort. I promise, the fur is still soft.

a grumpy cat is laying on the floor next to a book and says nope .

Alt: grumpy cat is laying on the floor next to a book and says nope .

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