Shirley Wu
Shirley Wu is an award-winning creative focused on data-driven art and visualisations. She has worked with clients such as Google, The Guardian, Scientific American, SFMOMA, NBC Universal, and International Rescue Committee to develop custom, highly interactive data visualisations. She combines her love of art, math, and code into colourful, compelling narratives that push the boundaries of the web.
In 2021, she co-authored Data Sketches with Nadieh Bremer, a hybrid textbook and coffee table book that detail the process behind 24 data visualisation projects.
She is currently finishing a Master's at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP, May 2023), with the goal of bringing her data stories into the physical world.
Her work can be found at shirleywu.studio.
Talk: Data, Design, Code
For the last few years Shirley has worked with various clients across the tech, media, and journalism industries to create visual narratives with their data. In this talk, she will show some of these past projects, but more importantly, share the lessons she learned while creating these custom data visualisations for the web – across the whole data, design, and code process.
