Julie Steele

Julie Steele is Director of Communications at Silicon Valley Data Science. She thinks in metaphors and finds beauty in the clear communication of ideas. Julie is particularly drawn to visual media as a way to understand and transmit information, and is coauthor of Beautiful Visualization (O’Reilly, 2010) and Designing Data Visualizations (O’Reilly, 2012) in addition to multiple reports on the ways data science is being used across industries from health care to fashion.

Content

Metrics are great—but even a data-driven business needs to consider side effects

March 2, 2017

4 questions to spark ethical decisions about data.

What’s a CDO to do?

January 31, 2017

Data governance is straightforward; data strategy is not.

Why data visualization matters

February 14, 2012

The best data visualizations expose something new.

Redesigning the New York City subway map

July 27, 2010

The long and complicated path that led to Eddie Jabbour's KickMap.