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Amy Cesal
@amycesal.com
Freelance information designer and data viz consultant.

👩🏼‍🏫 Instructor @ MICA Data Analytics and Visualization grad program
📊 Product Evangelist @everviz

https://www.amycesal.com
I teach virtually at MICA, so it’s such a treat to meet up with current and former data viz graduate students in person!
June 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
June 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Excited to speak soon at #Outlier2025
June 11, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Morning views #Outlier2025
June 11, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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...
March 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I'm excited to be a judge for the Information is Beautiful Awards again this year! Longlist announcement coming March 10th
February 19, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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...
February 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Information is Beautiful Awards deadline approaching: January 31

Just a few more days to enter the awards: www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/awards/2024
January 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Very cute free avatar creator from Notion:
faces.notion.com

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

substack.com/redirect/b02...
January 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I’m here for this cranberry sauce bar chart made of cranberry sauce from @axios.com

nice work @daniellealberti.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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?
November 18, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Electoral College, but make it tetris
November 5, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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...
October 25, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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
April 18, 2024 at 1:02 AM
Just bought my Outlier Conference ticket for Chicago in June! See you there? www.outlierconf.com
April 5, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Interesting post by Pew looking at the concentration of Asian restaurants across the USA
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
January 19, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Interesting post about constraints and creating a map of a river to print on a receipt printer

aaronkoelker.com/wakulla-rece...
January 11, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Jessica Russo's project is a beautiful data driven resource for family and friends of people struggling with opioid use disorder
www.beyondtheopioidcrisis.com
January 8, 2024 at 6:04 PM
A data story about saving the Florida everglades and an unlikely hero: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e1f6...
by the talented @clayval.bsky.social
January 8, 2024 at 5:48 PM
The pudding cup data viz winners for 2023: pudding.cool/pudding-cup
December 12, 2023 at 2:34 PM
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.
November 6, 2023 at 8:21 PM
Come find me at the iibs!
November 3, 2023 at 1:28 PM
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...
October 19, 2023 at 2:58 PM
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