Biography:Shirley Wu

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Shirley Wu is a data scientist specialized in data art and data visualizations.[1] She is a freelancer based out of San Francisco, California .[2] With Nadieh Bremer, Wu is the author of Data Sketches.[3]

Education

Shirley Wu graduated from Newbury Park High School in Newbury Park, California in 2008.[4][5] Wu received her Business Administration degree at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012.[3][citation needed] In Fall 2021, she began a master's degree at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts's Interactive Telecommunications Program.[6]

Career

In 2012, Wu worked as a software engineer at Splunk.[3] Wu then worked as a software engineer on a frontend team at Illumio in 2015.[7][8]

Since 2016, Wu has freelanced as a data visualization contractor and consultant.[3] Wu writes, teaches, and speaks at conferences about her data art and visualization expertise,[9] as well as providing courses on front-end web development, particularly D3.[8][10] As a data visualization expert, she is a frequent speaker at conferences and guest on data visualization podcasts.[10][11][12][13][14]

Wu has had an ongoing collaboration with Nadieh Bremer since they met in 2016 at the OpenVisConf in Boston.[3][15] In late 2017, Wu and Bremer collaborated with The Guardian to enrich the field of journalism research in the project "Bussed Out: How America Moves its Homeless".[16] This article's cartographic and visual works seamlessly accompanying its storytelling received various accolades and awards.[17][18][19] The pair have collaborated with Google and Alberto Cairo on visualizations about popular travel locations and searches.[9] Wu's work focused on the search terms entered from one country that were related to other countries.[20] Bremer and Wu have also co-authored the book Data Sketches together.[3] The book was first suggested by Tamara Munzner, who wanted the book to be part of her data visualization series. Munzner joined the project as its editor.[3]

As a result of her work, Wu was featured in GitHub's ReadME Project, which "amplifies the voices of the open source community."[6]

Notable works

  • Data Sketches (2021), coauthored with Nadieh Bremer, is a collection of 24 data visualizations.[3][21][22][23]
    • An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton, The Pudding (part of the Data Sketches series).[24] An interactive data visualization of the dialogue in the musical Hamilton.
    • Explore Adventure, Google News Lab (part of the Data Sketches series).[25] The visualization explores how Google searches differ between countries. In 2017, it received the Science & Technology award given by Information is Beautiful Awards.[26][27]
  • People of the Pandemic: an interactive simulation game.[28][29] This piece allows readers to localize a simulation of the COVID-19 pandemic, to make the impacts of decisions more intuitive.[30][31]
  • Bussed Out: How America Moves its Homeless, The Guardian[16] This piece won best data visualization from the North American Digital Media Awards, as well as Silver from the Malofiej Awards.

Awards

  • Best Data Visualization – North American Digital Media Awards (2018)[32] for "Bussed Out: How America Moves its Homeless".[16]
  • Silver in Features – Malofiej 26 (2018)[33]  for "Bussed Out: How America Moves its Homeless".[16]
  • Bronze in Art, Entertainment & Pop Culture – Information is Beautiful Awards (2017)[34] for "An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton".[24]
  • Gold in Unusual – Information is Beautiful Awards (2017)[35][36] for "Data Sketches in Twelve Installments".[21]

References

  1. ↑ Ray, Matt (2017-08-12). "QQ with Shirley Wu *Junior Edition" (in en). https://medium.com/@Matt24Ray_74743/qq-with-shirley-wu-junior-edition-df3f6316d839. 
  2. ↑ eggheadio. "How Shirley Wu Built A Career As A Freelance Data Visualizer" (in en). https://egghead.io/podcasts/how-shirley-wu-built-a-career-as-a-freelance-data-visualizer. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 Bremer, Nadieh; Wu, Shirley (2021). Data Sketches. CRC Press. pp. 15–16. https://books.google.com/books?id=V9kREAAAQBAJ&pg=PA15. 
  4. ↑ "CONEJO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF EDUCATION REGULAR MEETING". 2008-05-20. http://www.conejousd.org/Portals/0/usersdata/Board%20of%20Ed/2007-08/Minutes/05-20-08.doc. 
  5. ↑ @kickrg (2016-02-08). "Shirley Wu, NPHS & Cal grad, teaches Computer Science Principles students about data visualization! #apcsp #apcsp". https://twitter.com/kickrg/status/696798296212267010. 
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Chasing dreams, data, and creative coding · The ReadME Project" (in en). https://github.com/readme/shirley-wu. 
  7. ↑ Illumio. "From Investment Banking to Building Illumination: Questions for Shirley Wu" (in en). https://www.illumio.com/blog/questions-for-shirley-wu. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Learn from Shirley Wu's Courses on Frontend Masters" (in en). https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/shirley-wu/. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Lindberg, Oliver (August 2019). "Learn from a Data-Viz Whizz". Net Magazine: pp. 26–31. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Sans, Gerard (2017-10-20). "ReactiveConf — In the loop with Shirley Wu". https://blog.reactiveconf.com/reactiveconf-in-the-loop-with-shirley-wu-195ba3c8786d. 
  11. ↑ "The Sketchcast, Episode 2: Data Visualisation with Shirley Wu" (in en). http://www.sketchgroup.com.au/1/post/2020/09/the-sketchcast-episode-2-data-visualisation-with-shirley-wu.html. 
  12. ↑ "Shirley Wu, Software Engineer & Data Visualization Freelancer | Tech+Art by Tech+Art • A podcast on Anchor" (in en). https://anchor.fm/maketechart/episodes/Shirley-Wu--Software-Engineer--Data-Visualization-Freelancer--TechArt-ebmlnk. 
  13. ↑ (in en) storytelling with data: #40 Data Sketches with Shirley Wu & Nadieh Bremer, https://play.acast.com/s/storytelling-with-data-podcast/ac838a0d-e1a6-4c34-93d2-43cd5d1c68fa, retrieved 2021-05-10 
  14. ↑ "storytelling with data podcast - improve your data visualization and presentation skills" (in en-US). https://www.storytellingwithdata.com/podcast. 
  15. ↑ "Animation in Dataviz – An Interview with Nadieh Bremer and Shirley Wu | Val Head" (in en). 2017-04-28. https://valhead.com/2017/04/27/animation-in-dataviz-data-sketches/. 
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 "Bussed out: how America moves thousands of homeless people around the country" (in en). http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study. 
  17. ↑ "Bussed Out: How America Moves its Homeless" (in en-US). https://awards.journalists.org/entries/bussed-out-how-america-moves-its-homeless/. 
  18. ↑ "The Winners: Politics & Global". https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/news/331-the-winners-politics-global. 
  19. ↑ World Digital Media Awards. "Winner of Best Data Visualization". https://events.wan-ifra.org/events/world-digital-media-awards/speakers. 
  20. ↑ Miller, Meg (2017-04-25). "What Happens When Google Turns Artists Loose On Its Search Data" (in en-US). https://www.fastcompany.com/90111367/what-happens-when-google-turns-artists-loose-on-its-search-data. 
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Data Sketches". https://www.datasketch.es/. 
  22. ↑ Santoro, Claire (2020-12-02). "Drawing Out 'Data Sketches'" (in en). https://medium.com/nightingale/drawing-out-data-sketches-58da7e6fd824. 
  23. ↑ "Data Sketches". April 24, 2021. https://github.com/nbremer/datasketches. 
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 Wu, Shirley (March 2017). "An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton". The Pudding. https://pudding.cool/2017/03/hamilton/. 
  25. ↑ "Explore Adventure". http://explore-adventure.com/. 
  26. ↑ Rogers, Simon (2017-04-25). "Data needs empathy to make it real". Google News Lab. https://medium.com/google-news-lab/data-needs-empathy-to-make-it-real-c9ca0f0aea6d. 
  27. ↑ "Explore Adventure". https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/2363-explore-adventure. 
  28. ↑ Stefaner, Moritz (March 6, 2020). "People of the Pandemic with Shirley Wu". Data Stories. https://datastori.es/161-people-of-the-pandemic-with-shirley-wu/. "A podcast on data visualization with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner" 
  29. ↑ "People of the Pandemic | a hyperlocal cooperative simulation game" (in en). https://peopleofthepandemicgame.com/. 
  30. ↑ Hall, Madison (2020-05-15). "How Do You Simulate a Pandemic? A Conversation With Data Designers Shirley Wu and Stephen Osserman" (in en). https://medium.com/nightingale/how-do-you-simulate-a-pandemic-a-conversation-with-data-designers-shirley-wu-and-stephen-osserman-8147c94f4ba0. 
  31. ↑ Makulec, Amanda (2020-06-01). "Move over, data visualization. The era of 'data simulation' is here" (in en-US). https://www.fastcompany.com/90508780/move-over-data-visualization-the-era-of-data-simulation-is-here. 
  32. ↑ "North American Digital Media Awards 2018 | WAN-IFRA Events". https://events.wan-ifra.org/events/north-american-digital-media-awards-2018/content/2727. 
  33. ↑ "Malofiej / Awards, Conference and Workshop" (in en-GB). https://www.malofiejgraphics.com/. 
  34. ↑ "An Interactive Visualization of Every Line in Hamilton". https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/2346-an-interactive-visualization-of-every-line-in-hamilton. 
  35. ↑ "Data Sketches in Twelve Installments". https://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/2244-data-sketches-in-twelve-installments. 
  36. ↑ "Information is Beautiful 2017 – take a look at the best infographics and data visualisations of this year". https://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/graphic-design/information-is-beautiful-2017-take-look-at-best-infographics-data-visualisations-of-this-year/. 



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