Shirley Wu

🎊Part 3 of my #dataviz trilogy OUT NOW🎊

What if next wave of innovation comes from what we currently call “Unusual” (ie data sculptures & hyper-local events)? I explore “data experiences” & how deep community connection might drive meaningful cultural impact.

🔗 www.shirleywu.studio/notebook/202...

beyond the plateau: the next decade with physical data experiences, a hopeful reimagining - Shirley Wu

After reflecting on what might have caused a creative plateau in data visualization in

last spring, after a 2 year pause in client work, I noticed a significant uptick in clients asking for line+bar+pie charts 📈📊 even tho they come to me (I thought) for bespoke #dataviz. I wrote about it here: www.shirleywu.studio/notebook/202...

fellow #dataviz friends have you experienced the same?

Outside a client's comfort zone - Shirley Wu

What happens when your creative work pushes a client’s boundaries? Reflecting on a data visualization project, I share lessons on navigating feedback, balancing bold ideas with clarity, and designing ...

spent way too long trying to make a scatterplot look interesting and still not satisfied but have to force myself to stop here before I start playing with the shapes themselves (bc seriously how do I justify bumpy/imperfect circles other than...✨aesthetics✨)

today's bug that i'm enjoying

two weeks ago I published www.shirleywu.studio/notebook/202... re: plateau in innovation I've felt in #dataviz last few years.

I've been furiously working on the follow-up (so many thoughts!) & it'll finally be out next Monday 🎉 if you'd like an email notification: www.shirleywu.studio/notebook

what killed innovation?: the past decade of interactive graphics, a brief recounting - Shirley Wu

Over the past decade, interactive data visualization has gone from bold experimentation to polished, predictable formats. I’ve been reflecting on why—and after speaking with some of the best in the fi...

🎊 New Client Case Study 🎊

Opportunity@Work wanted a way to elevate the insights from their research—so I collaborated with them to create an interactive #dataviz that shows how workers Skilled Through Alternative Routes can move into higher-wage jobs.

🔗 www.shirleywu.studio/projects/cas...

Low Wage Does Not Mean Low Skill - Shirley Wu

(like many) I've been thinking a lot about missing or imperfect data in the last few years. I really appreciate this use of blobby/imperfect circles for numbers that we only have estimates on, that we don't have accurate numbers for (which personally I think is a good thing)

The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com

From our colleagues in NYT Graphics: Many labeled “undocumented” or “unauthorized” actually do have some authorization to live or work in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Who Are the Millions of Immigrants Trump Wants to Deport?

Trump wants to end several programs that offered new arrivals temporary relief. Millions of others without legal status may also be vulnerable to deportation.

me friday night: omg I still have so much work to do
husband: but do you want to take a break and try this zelda game?
me: ok but I'm setting a timer for 30min

me 30min later: *ignores timer and plays until 3am*

taking a moment to celebrate: i've finally completed the move to @buttondown.com and deleted my substack 🎊

and as an added bonus i learned how to setup my own custom sending domain so now all my newsletters actually come from my own email ✨

if you're interested → shirleywu.studio/notebook

hello first post happy (belated) new year! I've been wanting to learn svelte for a while and figured today is the day and I'm already so delighting in their tutorial it's so good 😊

🔗 learn.svelte.dev/tutorial/wel...

Welcome to Svelte • Svelte Tutorial

Learn Svelte and SvelteKit with an interactive browser-based tutorial

remembered this cute little script I wrote last year that I’m still unreasonably proud of~

I made it to use in our wedding designs and lovingly called it my puddle generator 😂

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i spent my year away from socials building towards a decade-long dream: to live and work (half the year) in tokyo, on my own terms 🎊 the goal is client work in sf, and my own art practice in tokyo.

i first wrote about it last april & i just finished an update: www.shirleywu.studio/notebook/202...

on all that is intangible - Shirley Wu

All the intangibles of starting an art company in Tokyo.

I finally compiled (most of) my thoughts on how I use AI and I'm curious: what is your sacred space?

🔗 www.shirleywu.studio/notebook/202...

this is exactly the kind of content I've missed, a good old nerdy roll-your-own #dataviz/#carto algorithm. also emphasizes how deep domain/topic knowledge is so important in making a good viz 🙌

Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net

For the German election we wanted to use a cartogram of German election districts but didn't find anything good, so we created our own. Here's a little nerd thread how the final algorithm worked 🤓 🧵 #gis #cartogram #election #datavis #cartography

I've been refactoring my blog post styles with @tailwindcss.com the last few days and what took me a bunch of javascript beforehand has now been reduced to 4 lines and it makes me so happy ☺️

i have a working hypothesis that being a software engineer actually gets in the way of being a dataviz dev 😂

when you're just trying to make a carousel for your portfolio website and now you're down a rabbit hole of good/bad carousel patterns courtesy of @smashingmagazine.com 😅

www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/04/desi...

Usability Guidelines For Better Carousels UX — Smashing Magazine

Carousels have plenty of accessibility issues, they often exhibit low click-through rates, can be very disruptive when auto-advancing and people frequently scroll past through them. In this series of ...

today's planets progress 🌌

feeling much better about it than before but still not 100% happy, will keep tweaking 👩‍💻

been working around the clock finishing up client deadlines and setting up business things and finally finished 99% last night.

I’m off to vacation tomorrow and I woke up with the smoothest brain no thoughts haha and I’ve decided to embrace it ✨

tl;dr today is a no thoughts just vibes sort of day

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OOOOH I appreciate this fyi so much Jonas, thank you!! I tried out tailwindcss bc it was included in the sveltekit starter 🥲 I've dug around @unocss.dev and started reading @antfu.me's blog post about it, the strongest signal for me is that @bencodezen.io is a sponsor 🥰 will look into migrating!

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me today: ok gotta concentrate, do the work I was supposed to do yesterday
also me today: that game was so fun tho

I was thinking recently about SSR in the context of SEO & wondering how to do this w/ #svelte + #d3js visualizations that are window resize dependent since we can't get window size on server side?

Or does it even matter considering alt text would be better practice for summarizing the viz anyways?

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my guess is tufte 👍

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I don't actually think this is what potential clients think (bc my clients don't really tend to be engineers), but rather just proves my point that there's a strong subset of the public that has a very narrow view of what dataviz should look like. and that i want to dispel that