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Shirley Wu | |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | Data visualizations |
| Website | https://shirleywu.studio/ |
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]
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]
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]
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