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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Nominations are open for Impactful Community Leaders. Check out our past years' winners Duncan Geere and @allitorban.bsky.social . Nominations open through April 11, 2025! Submit your nominations by April 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Mesa Schumacher @mesabree.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

When I was first creating this set in 2021, @allitorban.bsky.social would create a pattern for each animal, then I would make the animal an outfit out of their own pattern. She just reminded me that this #crab got a set of bunny ears. So dashing! 😊 #sciart #artcollab #medart #crabs #illustration

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Learn how Alli Torban upskilled from a data analyst to data viz designer in our upcoming Q&A with an Expert session on January 9. Attend for free by registering here: buff.ly/3DGzBE6📊

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Join us for our first 📊 Q&A of 2025 with @allitorban.bsky.social! Our new monthly theme is "Upskilling" and Alli is coming in with her best lessons learned and practical advice. Bring your friends and your questions! Register here: shorturl.at/wV1Jc @datavizsociety.bsky.social

Image of Alli Torban with her talk title, "step-by-step: how I upskilled from analyst to data visualization designer" with the date and time of the seminar, Jan 9th at 1pm EST.

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Paula Lago @paulilago.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Santa nailed it this year! 🎅 I won one of @katgreenbrook.bsky.social's 12 Days of Christmas giveaways and got The Data Storyteller’s Handbook + Chart Spark by @allitorban.bsky.social. Perfect summer reading! 🎁 Huge thanks to Kat & Alli for this thoughtful gift. I hope everyone had a lovely Xmas 🎄

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Data Literacy @dataliteracy.com · 05/12/2024

🎉 We turn 6 years old today! Happy Birthday to Us!! 🎂 Our CEO, @benrjones.bsky.social, took some time away from the world and avoided all LLMs while writing this reflective piece about where we've come, and where we're going next: dataliteracy.com/happy-6th-bi...

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Happy 6th Birthday, Data Literacy! | Data Literacy

Celebrating 6 years of Data Literacy! From navigating the COVID-19 pandemic to leading the AI literacy movement, discover how our small but mighty team has thrived, adapted, and grown to empower busin...

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Chandni ₍^. .^₎⟆ @chandniverse.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Podcast recommendation. It’s strange that this can happen on a one-way broadcast channel, but it’s all about community. Alli curates points of view from a range of data professionals, making a wonderful little internet corner.

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Alli Torban @allitorban.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

Am I too old to be a professional pickleball player? 🏓 Probably 😅 BUT... There's still hope! Here’s the age distribution of the top 50 pro women's doubles players in pickleball compared to tennis. Isn't it amazing that 17 year olds and 44 year olds can compete at the highest level together?!😍

Histograms of the distribution of ages for the top 50 professional women’s doubles players in Pickleball and tennis. It shows that the distribution is wider for Pickleball. The distribution for tennis players is around 26 to 32 mostly.

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Charles Saulnier @chuckydee25.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

I don't read enough #dataviz books of late, but I took a few hours for @allitorban.bsky.social's #chartspark last week. Well worth it: inspiring, concise, with practical tips you can put to use right away. Bonus: now I have to revisit Alli's 100 📊 wallpapers project dataliteracy.com/chart-spark/

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Chart Spark | Data Literacy

Do you want to be more creative in your data communication? Looking for specific creativity advice tailored for those in the data field? Chart Spark is a practical guide designed to change your perspe...

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 01/09/2024

Here you go. 🫡 Please share widely to help develop the dataviz community of Bluesky. 📊 go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy

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Alli Torban @allitorban.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

ways to make your dataviz designer smile 😍🐡

Comic. First frame shows a clown fish with puffer fish and the clown fish is saying here’s the data set. It’s source the known limitations and it won’t change unexpectedly in the next frame. The puffer fish is puffed up and has hearts.

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Voilà: Francis Gagnon @chezvoila.com · 26/07/2024

Julian just finished reading Chart Spark by @allitorban.bsky.social and is giving us a debrief. He loved it and shared some creativity techniques that we could us in our next projects.

Six members of the Voilà team sitting around a table. They have laptops in front of them and are looking at a large tv on which the cover page of the book Chart Spark is displayed.

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

It's book week at Nightingale! This whole week we'll be sharing reviews, author interviews, and book-inspired visualizations. To start this week off right, we're sharing a review by @emiliaruzicka.bsky.social on @allitorban.bsky.social's newest book, Chart Spark! nightingaledvs.com/review-chart...

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Review: "Chart Spark" by Alli Torban - Nightingale

In Alli Torban’s new book, Chart Spark, she tackles this issue of perceived creativity block and shares her own creative journey.

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The Pudding @pudding.cool · 25/01/2024

We’re excited to announce The Pudding’s 2024 Cohort, a 10-week summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers. 🧑‍🎓 Open to college/graduate-level students and recent grads 🗓️ June 18 – Sept 1 💰 $7,200 stipend 📝 More details at this link! pudding.cool/career/cohort/

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Join Our 2024 Cohort

We created a summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers to author a project on The Pudding

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 23/01/2024

Analysis and Anarchy, or: there's gold in them thar charts! The latest from CHARTOGRAPHY, with lessons for studying inspiration from @allitorban.bsky.social charts.substack.com/p/analysis-a...

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Analysis and Anarchy

Or: there’s gold in them thar charts!

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 17/01/2024

Yet another book has arrived and it’s a massive congratulations to @allitorban.bsky.social, so happy to see her “Chart Spark” book come to life. All about harnessing creativity in the context of data viz, it’s packed with enjoyable drills and beneficial guidance 📊 www.amazon.com/Chart-Spark-...

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Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com · 16/01/2024

NEW! Season 4 Episode 9 of 'Explore Explain', a 📺🎧 series of long-form data visualisation conversations. In this episode I chat with @chloewhiteaker.bsky.social & @mariepastora.bsky.social about their joyous dataviz exploring Taylor Swift's billionaire status visualisingdata.com/2024/01/expl...

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Explore Explain S4 E9: Chloe Whiteaker & Marie Patino - Visualising Data

Welcome to S4E9 of Explore Explain, a long-form video and podcast series about data visualisation design. In this episode I chat with Chloe Whiteaker and Marie Patino of Bloomberg News. We explore the...

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 12/01/2024

“You need to try something new to be someone new.” @allitorban.bsky.social

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RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com · 03/01/2024

rejuvenating my creativity with @allitorban.bsky.social‘s CHART SPARK

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 31/12/2023

Chart Spark by @allitorban.bsky.social has given me a way to frame why I enjoy experimenting w/ TikTok. Making videos (for near-zero followers) are “mini-c” creative acts for me. (She cites work by Kaufman & Beghetto for the categories). Each animation is a fun low-stakes creative challenge #sciart

Photo of book sitting on textile. Text on cover: CHART SPARK, Harness your creativity in data communication to stand out and innovate, Alli Torban

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Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Hey look! Hey look! My "Dispersion vs Disparity" research (with Cindy X Bearfield) made it into @albertocairo.bsky.social's new "Art of Insight" book. We snuck into @allitorban.bsky.social's inspiring chapter on "Making Data Friendly." I'm so proud to see equity-focused dataviz as a topic in print.

Photo of explainer graphics, showing how some charts can encourage stereotyping, as printed in Art of Insight. The top image is a slide from my Unfair Comparisons talk/workshop, the two bottom images show Alli's illustrations of the "distorting lens" metaphor.

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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 20/11/2023

I had a beautiful conversation about 'The Art of Insight' and life in general with @allitorban.bsky.social for her podcast, Dataviz today: dataviztoday.com

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