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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

https://www.amycesal.com
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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
June 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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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
June 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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
June 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Morning views #Outlier2025
View of the ocean with boats on the water
June 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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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
March 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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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
February 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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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
February 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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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
January 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Very cute free avatar creator from Notion:
faces.notion.com

H/T Sidebar.io (which is back!)
illustrated portrait of myself
January 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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A big new piece on proportional representation with some nice viz from @leedrutman.bsky.social Jesse Wegman and Aileen Clarke

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matrix of parties Congressional seat map of new parties US map of new parties
January 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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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
November 28, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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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
November 18, 2024 at 7:36 PM
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Electoral College, but make it tetris
November 5, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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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
October 25, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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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
April 18, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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Just bought my Outlier Conference ticket for Chicago in June! See you there? www.outlierconf.com
Outlier 2024, Chicago, IL USA June 12-14
April 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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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
January 19, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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Interesting post about constraints and creating a map of a river to print on a receipt printer

aaronkoelker.com/wakulla-rece...
River map from a receipt printer
January 11, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Jessica Russo's project is a beautiful data driven resource for family and friends of people struggling with opioid use disorder
www.beyondtheopioidcrisis.com
Beyond Crisis: Lives Saved
January 8, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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A data story about saving the Florida everglades and an unlikely hero: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e1f6...
by the talented @clayval.bsky.social
Periphyton an unlikely hero
January 8, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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The pudding cup data viz winners for 2023: pudding.cool/pudding-cup
Since When Does Vogue Hate Text? Pavement 1933–2023
December 12, 2023 at 2:34 PM
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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
November 6, 2023 at 8:21 PM
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Come find me at the iibs!
November 3, 2023 at 1:28 PM
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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...
speaker photos for day of inspiration
October 19, 2023 at 2:58 PM
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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?
September 25, 2023 at 8:02 PM