Engineering + Visualization + HCI, current: @Reddit, prev. @AP @Splunk @WSJGraphics @NBC @TexasTribune, @Columbia alum, RT≠EN

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2012
Shelly Cheng will deliver a panel talk at #Outlier2025: “Navigating a Career as a Data Visualization Engineer” Register here: buff.ly/MielGAo #dataviz #datavisualization
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Join us for our hackathon, Hack for Social Impact, on Nov. 9th and 10th in SF! We're partnering with organizations including the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a weekend of impact-driven building. 🧵
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I'm really happy with our ✨ shiny new ✨ election results map design at @AP. Using circles allows us to represent votes (not geography), with saturation showing the leading candidate's vote share and a force layout preventing circle overlaps. apnews.com/projects/election…
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Have spent the last few months on an incredible team designing some exciting new viz breaking down @AP election results Follow along all of tonight’s races (and keep an eye out for all the fun stuff we have planned for the general) apnews.com/projects/election…
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happening NOW in SF. Waymo car vandalized & lit on fire 🤯@sfchronicle – at Chinatown, San Francisco
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GPT-4 doing some interpretability work on GPT-2:
We applied GPT-4 to interpretability — automatically proposing explanations for GPT-2's 300k neurons — and found neurons responding to concepts like similes, “things done correctly,” or expressions of certainty. We aim to use Al to help us understand Al: openai.com/research/language…
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BREAKING: Mission Local has learned that San Francisco police this morning traveled to Emeryville to make an arrest in the April 4 killing of tech exec Bob Lee. The alleged killer also works in tech and purportedly knew Lee. From @esksf missionlocal.org/2023/04/bob…
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Thank you @nytimes for the credit!
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You're not using the Notes app on your iPhone to its full potential. 8 features you might not know about:
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I'm hiring a few data viz developers for my team at @urbaninstitute! This could be a great fit for folks interested in informing the policy debate through data, storytelling and design and working at the intersection of research, comms and data science urban.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/…
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So happy to share my first first-author conference paper! I (and four brilliant collaborators: @vsetlur @WindsCogley @arvindsatya1 and Marti Hearst) found that readers prefer charts with more text and that this text has subtle and strong influences on reader takeaways. 🧵/12
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Human Interface Guidelines for Charts are here! We've been working on these pages for a bit—hope you find them useful 📊🥳 Patterns page: developer.apple.com/design/h… Components page: developer.apple.com/design/h…
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That’s a wrap up! 6 Days of intense workshops with great company and amazing lecturers. Thank you @AnnaFeit for being such a wonderful host. #cixschool22
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There’s four days left to apply for this amazing job on the data visuals team @texastribune: texas-tribune.forms.fm/desig… Here’s why you should join us: 1/
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When you hear the forecast for snow in NYC is 6-8 inches this weekend, this is what it really means. nytimes.com/interactive/2022… @jshkatz @aatishb
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During the pandemic, home prices have risen faster and in far more places than during the housing bubble. If you've been locked out of the market, there's likely no quick reprieve coming. nytimes.com/2022/01/20/upsho…
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More people need to know this.
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Allen School Ph.D. student & data journalist @mathisonian develops data visualizations that help people understand the news, from election coverage to the spread of #COVID19. His work even helped the NY Times win a Pulitzer. #ThisIsUW news.cs.washington.edu/2021/…
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