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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 · 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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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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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

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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!)

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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...

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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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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?

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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

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 · 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

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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 · 19/01/2024

Interesting post by Pew looking at the concentration of Asian restaurants across the USA www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Small multiple maps showing the concentration of Asian restaurants across the US

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 11/01/2024

Interesting post about constraints and creating a map of a river to print on a receipt printer aaronkoelker.com/wakulla-rece...

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 08/01/2024

Jessica Russo's project is a beautiful data driven resource for family and friends of people struggling with opioid use disorder www.beyondtheopioidcrisis.com

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 08/01/2024

A data story about saving the Florida everglades and an unlikely hero: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e1f6... by the talented @clayval.bsky.social

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 12/12/2023

The pudding cup data viz winners for 2023: pudding.cool/pudding-cup

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 06/11/2023

Save the date for outlier conference! June 12-14, 2024 | Chicago USA Chicago is very lovely in June so that’s just an extra bonus.

Outlier conference. Chicago, IL USA. June 12-14, 2024

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 03/11/2023

Come find me at the iibs!

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 19/10/2023

The Information is Beautiful awards Day of Inspiration speakers are up! And I'm one of them! Attend in person in Baltimore or virtually www.datavisualizationsociety.org/2023dayofins...

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 25/09/2023

Just got my ticket to the Data Viz Society 2023 IIB Awards Ceremony + Day of Inspiration (In-Person) Fri, Nov 3, 2023 9:00 AM - Sat, Nov 4, 2023 3:00 PM EDT Baltimore, MD, United States Who else is going?

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 25/09/2023

By taking this survey, you help: 1 Identify income benchmarks 2 document tools usage, career paths, resources 3 ways to serve the international community better Complete by October 15, 2023 and share it with anyone who visualizes data! datavisualizationsociety.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 12/09/2023

I get stuck with qualitative data sometimes. This is so helpful! stephanieevergreen.com/qualitative-...

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 15/08/2023

Get those submissions in! Especially students, because it's free, and you could win some cash and recognition! www.informationisbeautifulawards.co… I'm excited to be judging the awards again this year!

Information is Beautiful Awards 2023, deadline extended from August 15 to August 18th

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 02/08/2023

Government data visualized nicely by USA Facts. The trend of more water across both these groups is interesting. usafacts.org/data-projects/beverages

slope chart showing children are drinking more water and less milk since 2005

slope chart showing adults have held steady with their coffee and alcohol consumption since 2005 and bottled water consumption has increased while consumption of soft drinks has decreased.

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 25/07/2023

Well the ease and prominent reminder to add alt text is definitely a perk of this platform. I’m happy this feature was prioritized!

Screenshot of where to add alt text in blue sky

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Amy Cesal @amycesal.com · 25/07/2023

I’m traveling and seeing dataviz everywhere

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