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Amy Cesal

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

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Are you a kick-ass designer who can help make scientific information about climate change and climate solutions come to life? If so, we’re hiring! drawdown.org/careers/seni...
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Senior Digital Designer, Climate Science
Our mission is to help the world stop climate change as quickly, safely, and equitably as possible.
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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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
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DVS State of the Industry Survey - 2025
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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
🎉 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...
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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. medium.com/nightingale/...
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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
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 09/07/2025
Did you attend Outlier Conference in person? Photos are up (aka I have a new headshot) Professional photos: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 13/06/2025
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
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 12/06/2025
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
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Neil Richards @questionsindataviz.com · 11/06/2025
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!
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 11/06/2025
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
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 11/06/2025
Morning views #Outlier2025
View of the ocean with boats on the water
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 03/06/2025
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...
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Registration — Outlier
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 07/05/2025
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...
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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...
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 31/03/2025
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...
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 24/03/2025
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...
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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. -...
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 10/03/2025
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 · 25/02/2025
🥧 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? 🥧
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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.
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 25/02/2025
Speaker applications for the @datavizsociety.bsky.social's annual conference, Outlier, are open! Apply by March 15: buff.ly/4bhlQrT
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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...
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 19/02/2025
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
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 13/02/2025
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 · 29/01/2025
#info+ 2025 conference announced!! informationplusconference.com/2025/
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Information+ Conference 2025
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John Alexis Guerra Gomez @johnguerra.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Great article on animation for #dataviz by @eagereyes.org and @allisonhorst.bsky.social from @observablehq.com 👏🏻 observablehq.com/blog/effecti...
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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...
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 29/01/2025
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
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Amanda Makulec @abmakulec.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Today is our @datavizsociety.bsky.social Annual General Meeting - my last as the Executive Director. I'm so excited for what DVS will continue to do in the years to come, as we need #dataviz now more than ever to make sense of the world. Join us at 2pm EST: www.youtube.com/live/WJfMbU2...
Brown haired woman sitting at a desk with a blue background
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 15/01/2025
This is your unofficial reminder to enter your work in the Information is Beautiful Awards until January 31. www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/awards/2024 Students and members of the public whose work has not been commissioned or published professionally may submit their work for FREE.
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Information is Beautiful Awards 2024
The Information is Beautiful Awards celebrate excellence and beauty in data visualizations, infographics and information art.
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 15/01/2025
Very cute free avatar creator from Notion: faces.notion.com H/T Sidebar.io (which is back!)
illustrated portrait of myself
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 15/01/2025
A big new piece on proportional representation with some nice viz from @leedrutman.bsky.social Jesse Wegman and Aileen Clarke substack.com/redirect/b02...
matrix of partiesCongressional seat map of new partiesUS map of new parties
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 04/12/2024
Save the date for Outlier Conf 2025
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 28/11/2024
I’m here for this cranberry sauce bar chart made of cranberry sauce from @axios.com nice work @daniellealberti.bsky.social
Bar chart of Cranberry sauce production by state with the bars made of cranberry sauce
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Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com · 24/11/2024
Thankful to @propublica.org for their investigative work. This story about the incoming OMB director wanting to put civil servants in trauma is. Well, I don’t have words right now. I do have their handy link for gov employees to report bad shit securely www.propublica.org/tips/federal...
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Do You Work For the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants To Hear From You.
We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper.
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 23/11/2024
You probably know me as the person who made charts out of play doh: www.amycesal.com/portfolio#/d... Or as a co-founder of @datavizsociety.bsky.social I want you to know me as a person who can help you build a data viz style guide: www.datavizstyleguide.com
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Portfolio — Amy Cesal
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Amber Thomas @amberthomas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
This 2018 piece about how minuscule pockets are in women’s jeans is definitely my claim to dataviz fame ✨ pudding.cool/2018/08/pock... It was so much fun to build this one with @jadiehm.bsky.social and I love how much people still enjoy it 🥰
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Women
If you wear women
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 18/11/2024
New post by @datagrazing.bsky.social about why having a chart library in your data viz style guide is helpful! Check it out: www.datavizstyleguide.com/bestof/chart...
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Chart Smarter with a Chart Library — Data Visualization Style Guidelines
The Justice Innovation Lab’s data visualization style guide, featuring an in-depth look at various chart types, visual examples, and flexible styling options.
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 18/11/2024
If new bluesky is now old twitter, I'm going back to my classic profile photo. I still have those sunnies, earring and haircut, so it counts, right? Should I add in a few more wrinkles with AI?
Black and white Headshot
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 18/11/2024
So many more people here now! Re-sharing the incomplete but useful data viz starter pack: go.bsky.app/R3nSyyy
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 14/11/2024
Finally sharing some of my and my amazing team's #dataviz work that we did at Morning Consult www.amycesal.com/portfolio#/m...
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 05/11/2024
Electoral College, but make it tetris
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 25/10/2024
Did you know I enjoy working on charts for academic or non-fiction books? Take a look at some of the book graphics I've done for authors like @leedrutman.bsky.social and contact me for similar work www.amycesal.com/academic-boo...
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Academic Book Charts — Amy Cesal
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 25/10/2024
Brilliant use of visual metaphor and encoding data. Each state is represented by mazes of different complexity depending how hard it is to get an abortion in that state. From the Pudding By Jan Diehm & Michelle Pera-McGhee pudding.cool/2024/10/abor...
Grid map of the US showing each state as a maze depending on the complexity of being able to get an abortion
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 23/10/2024
New post from Jon Schwabish about how the Baltimore City Data Fellows data viz design guidelines include recommendations for dashboard layout #dashboards www.datavizstyleguide.com/bestof/insig...
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Insights on Dashboard Design — Data Visualization Style Guidelines
Dashboard design styles from the Baltimore City Data Fellows style guide
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 22/10/2024
In order to highlight some of the unique and good things from data viz style guides Jon Schwabish, Max Graze, Alan Wilson and myself are publishing a new series highlighting things we like about data viz guidelines and why they work. Check it out: www.datavizstyleguide.com/bestof
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Best of — Data Visualization Style Guidelines
Series of posts highlighting the unique and useful features of various data visualization style guidelines
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Michael @donohoe.dev · 25/09/2024
We're looking to hire a Visual Editor on the Editorial team at Rest of World. I'm very invested in finding the best person as they work closely with my team on our biggest (award winning) projects (International ok, remote friendly)
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Visual Editor
Rest of World is looking for an ambitious and creative editor to elevate our visual offering and reinforce the publication’s visual identity.
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 25/09/2024
If you do any sort of data viz professionally, personally, or even only occasionally make a chart or two, take the Data Visualization Society Annual State of the Industry survey. It's a few minutes of your time and your perspective is valuable. www.surveyhero.com/c/soti2024-n...
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DVS State of the Industry Survey - 2024
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 22/05/2024
I will be at Outlier Data Viz Conference in less than a month! Tickets for in person in Chicago are available until the end of May. If you can't make it in person, get a virtual ticket for just $99! www.eventbrite.com/cc/outlier-2...
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Outlier 2024
Join data visualization practitioners from across topics, tools, and tech stacks in Chicago, IL or virtually to dive into positive disruptions in data visualization. At the fourth annual Outlier, you'...
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 18/04/2024
BIG NEWS! I just got accepted to adopt a cicada! Which means I will paint it and it will be displayed somewhere in Chicago. Of course it's going to be a data viz cicada. Ideas welcome. www.cicada2024.com
Painted sculptures of cicadas
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 05/04/2024
Just bought my Outlier Conference ticket for Chicago in June! See you there? www.outlierconf.com
Outlier 2024, Chicago, IL USA 
June 12-14
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 07/03/2024
Our 📊 working group of Maxene Graze, Jonathan Schwabish & Alan Wilson is currently categorizing data visualization style guides. If you're passionate about data visualization and eager to contribute, we'd appreciate your assistance by filling out the form: forms.gle/JsmcVyXCikoD...
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Data Visualization Style Guidelines evaluation
Thank you for your participation in this research project. Our aim is to gain deeper insights into the landscape of data visualization style guides. To achieve this goal, we are requesting your assist...
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 16/02/2024
Are you stuck on the design of a chart? I'm now offering 1:1 data visualization art direction consultations to help solve your problems. We will talk through your challenges and I will provide guidance and support. $200 for a 90 minute call. Book here: www.amycesal.com/consultation
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Consultation — Amy Cesal
Struggling with data visuals? Our 90 minute Art Direction Consultations provide personalized solutions for impactful and clear presentations. Let's turn your data into a compelling narrative using c...
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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 16/02/2024
Apply to be a speaker at Outlier Conference (Chicago or virtual June 12-14) by February 24th! www.outlierconf.com
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Outlier
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