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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

You and @datacitron.bsky.social did a fantastic job. We could see the joy and passion you both have for the book and it was so fun seeing the behind the scenes. And yes, all for not having to haul a heavy bag of books! 😂

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Thank you @questionsindataviz.com for capturing such a fun moment! :D

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Super proud of the entire IIB Awards team for all the work we put in just to get to this point. Can't wait to see what the judges make of this year's longlisted submissions!

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We’re hiring! Apply if you are a highly organized professional with experience managing processes and budgets across spreadsheets. This is a part-time, remote role. Apply by February 28, 2025: buff.ly/4i5BpoU

We're hiring an Operations Manager. Apply by February 28, 2025

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This week's #dataviz book was sent to me by a former MICA classmate and I can't be more excited. Not just for learning more about #inclusivedesign but because it is awesome to have found incredible people thru MICA, WID, and DVS and we're able to share and contribute to each other's journeys.

A boon laying on a wood table titled "Design for All? Inclusive Design Today", and a greeting card sent by my friend with the book.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/02/2025

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

Tweet from Scott Jennings, saying "um, yes, that's really a problem," with a quoted image saying "The problem with left-leaning media is they're intrinsically more strict with their propaganda to only using verifiable sources so it's really hard to poke holes in their ideology and arguments in comparison to a lot of low quality right-wing content. That makes attacking their points with fact checkers not very effective unless the fact checkers use misinformation tactics as well. In essence, people on the right have to work harder and more creatively to push their agendas as statistics and studies frustratingly aren't usually on our side."

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

How much do you think exploratory vs explanatory factors into this?

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Great answer! :) How do you choose which projects to talk about or show during interviews?

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

@datavizsociety.bsky.social's Mentorship Program is still looking for incredible people to join as mentors for our 8th cohort! To be a mentor: your willingness to help another achieve their goals, be it learning a tool, making a #dataviz, or designing a portfolio. tinyurl.com/2u8rsw6s

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Mentorship — Data Visualization Society

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Do you practice elevator pitches for specific projects? What details matter most?

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Marco Cortella @mcx83.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

📊 W.E.B. Du Bois and Data Visualization in the Fight for Civil Rights In 1900, Du Bois created 60+ charts to illustrate Black Americans’ progress at the Paris Expo. The Du Bois Challenge 2025 invites participants to recreate them using modern tools. 📈 Join here: github.com/ajstarks/dub... #dataviz

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This leads me to wonder about the MVP of portfolio projects. Early career folks share whatever they have, generally, and working professionals share their best works, which could have taken months to make. But what bare minimum requirements would side projects need to meet to go into a portfolio?

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

For careers like this, where it might be understood by the majority that portfolios are minimal to non-existent, how important are they in the hiring process? Do you feel you even need to put in the effort to create/maintain one?

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I've remade my portfolio three times already, twice for exactly the reason you describe - frameworks get updated & it's just as easy to sit down & recreate it from scratch as to try untangling the chaos of errors & updates. I just remade it in wix cause ain't nobody got time for that anymore, haha.

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Why every 5 years? And updating content, aesthetics, or both?

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Re #Dataviz Portfolios, early career folks are mostly concerned with making and populating one, but what do non-early-career folks struggle with re: portfolios? Once you have one, what's next? Maintaining and updating? Updating aesthetics? Remaking it to go from personal to business?

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Last day to submit! The deadline is 11:59pm UTC or 3:59pm PST.

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Kicking off our first data challenge collab of 2025 with @ajstarks.bsky.social's #DuBoisChallenge2025! It's open to everyone and winners are chosen from the DVS slack channel #challenge-dubois so be sure to post what you make there each week. Looking forward to seeing all the creations!!

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

@ifbookspod.bsky.social could you do Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg?? The vibe I'm getting is, white man discovers the best ways to communicate and they're exactly what women have been doing all along.

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

All with your great support and feedback!!

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Wouldn't have been possible without the amazing graphics team at SciAm, @jenchristiansen.com, @unamandita.bsky.social, and space feature editor @clarakm.bsky.social.

Angled photo of a page in the SciAm February issue. The title reads, The Astronaut Club: a close look at every person who's ever gone to space.

Angled photo revealing a page in the SciAm Feb issue covered in multi-colored rectangles representing individuals, each with a different collection of symbols encoding information about their trips to space.

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

My 4-page 📊 spread for the Feb issue of @sciam.bsky.social is now live in digital format! I take a look at everyone who has been to space or earned their astronaut wings. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ever... Constructive feedback is welcome. This was a labor of love & I'm very proud of it.

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Everyone Who Has Ever Been to Space, Charted

Space traveler demographics have shifted over time

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Our 2024 State of the #dataviz Industry Report summarizes 861 responses about the state of data viz, the people who make it, the challenges they face, and where the field is headed. Full report here:

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The DVS Mentorship Program returns! Apply by February 2 for the February - May cohort. This program offers mentees early in their #dataviz career an opportunity to work with a mentor who has 5+ years of professional experience in the field. Apply here: buff.ly/3YzvbVT

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Amanda Makulec @abmakulec.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is in my top-five #dataviz articles that I recommend to people. Important information on the unintended consequences of our design decisions, and so well communicated!

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Our last two 📊 Q&A with an Expert seminars are now up on YT! Be sure to check them out because they were absolute bangers. December feat. @deabankova.bsky.social: shorturl.at/M5tls January feat. @allitorban.bsky.social: shorturl.at/vfsTl And follow @datavizsociety.bsky.social for more events!

A head shot of a young adult woman with long brown-purple-red hair and short bangs. The title of Dea's talk is "Having Fun with Code to Create Unique Data Viz and Art".

A head shot of a young adult woman with short light brown hair in a half-updo style and light-pink, round glasses, smiling directly at camera. The title of Alli's talk is "Step-by-Step: How I upskilled from Analyst to Data Visualization Designer".

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Sonja Kuijpers | STUDIO TERP @sonjakuijpers.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

While parts of LA are burning the sonification of LoudNubers comes to mind: they created a data sonification on the wildfires of Canada 2023. Eerie, disturbing and admirable piece. The data is sonified with different sounds and layers, narrated by a survivor. #dataviz #fires Listen here:

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Hold the Line — Loud Numbers

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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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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 06/01/2025

I'm late to this discussion about #dataviz critiques, but my brain won’t let it go. I’m quoting ‪‪@sonjakuijpers.bsky.social‬ post, because something about the vibe of @elijahmeeks.bsky.social 's prompt doesn’t feel productive to me. You can see that post & more replies if you click through. 📊 1/N

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Oh no! We had someone review the copy beforehand but I don't think they were a native speaker. We'll address this asap!

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

What do you mean by chart Readability Index? Any examples of what you had in mind?

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I think this raises a hard to answer but basic question: what even is considered 'feedback'? Like, I see comments all the time like 'amazing viz!' and that is still, technically, feedback. Do we only consider it feedback if it's offering more specific (or critical) commentary?

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

This has also been on my mind, esp from an early career perspective. How can we train and enable people to constructively offer feedback to each other on our vizzes? This comes up everywhere - feedback channels, social media, even peer work groups or collabs.

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Somebody thinks she is more important than my deadline.😸 (She has barely left my side since I returned from NYC, so she's not exactly being neglected.)

Gray cat sitting directly in front a keyboard with a glum expression, obviously miffed that I'm not paying as much attention to her as I am to the #dataviz project open in Adobe Illustrator on the desktop screen.

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Data Visualization Society @datavizsociety.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Die Einreichung für die #IIBAwards 2024 ist GEÖFFNET! Reichen Sie Ihre #Dataviz-Arbeit ein oder regen Sie Freunde, Kollegen und Menschen, regen Sie personen die Sie bewundern, zur Teilnahme an.

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Thank you!! That was definitely the hope and I'm glad to hear from so many that that's indeed the case. 💜

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Bittersweetly, my last digital news 📊 graphic from my internship is published. It is a simple annotated line chart pointing out Carter's impact on the guinea Worm eradication effort. His impact cannot be overstated, he was ahead of the curve on social issues, and Carter's passing is a tragedy.

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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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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 08/11/2024

I made a starter pack with #Shiny for #RStats and #Python devs and friends! And if you're a Shiny person and want to be included, let me know. go.bsky.app/BFEQ1HY

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Five of the books I read this year made it to the list! Four non-fiction and one fiction :D

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Bri 💝 @breezybrik.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

It’s the happiest day of the year 🥳📚 @sciam.bsky.social end-of-year book recommendations list here’s a behind the scenes look into how we put together www.scientificamerican.com/article/78-b...

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78 Books Scientific American Recommends in 2024

A collection of nonfiction and fiction books Scientific American editorial staff and contributors read and recommend in 2024

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

(I'm dropping books off at the library on this walk so still technically ticking something off the todo list.)

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Zane Wolf @zanewolf.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

That moment when you have so much to do that you go for a walk instead.

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Kerry Kole @merrykerry.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Do it! I'm not sure why, but anxiety prevented me from submitting the year I had created something nice -- and I've regretted ever since... Don't be me :)

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Amanda Makulec @abmakulec.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Information is Beautiful Awards 2024 entries open TODAY! #dataviz works created from Sept 1, 2023 to Dec 31, 2024 are eligible. This year shifts the Awards window to include the full calendar year. Can't wait to see the submissions! www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/awards/2024

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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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