Shirley Wu

摘要

Shirley Wu was introduced to data visualisation JavaScript library D3.js during her first job as a front-end software engineer at a big data company in San Francisco. She slowly fell in love with the tool because it combined her two main passions: art - Wu started drawing and painting when she was four years old - and maths. No wonder she describes herself as three-quarters code and one quarter art on Twitter. Just four years after graduating from university, Wu took the plunge and went freelance to create data visualisations full-time. She visualises a wide variety of topics covering culture, politics, art and more. Wu names three projects, all released in 2017, as major influences on her career. The first one, Data Sketches (www.datasketch.es), is a collaboration with fellow data visualisation designer Nadieh Bremer from Amsterdam, which introduced the duo to the data-viz community. The idea was to choose a topic every month, create a visualisation each and document the entire process - from the data preparation and the sketching of ideas to the execution.