Presenting my work to new audiences is a key part of connecting with the broader design and data vis community. Sharing practices in a different context helps me to step back and look for the birds-eye view. This keeps me interested and exploring in my own day-to-day work, and it creates opportunities for feedback and brainstorming that help to move my work in new directions. 

Speaking/Presentations

Designing for AI. UXPA Boston. Upcoming: May 2024. slides 

Putting Charts in Context: Designing Visualization Ecosystems for Your Data. Data Vis Meetup Zurich. April 2022. slides video

Same Data, Different Chart: How the Form we Choose for Data Affects What Users Can See. UXPA Conference, Boston. Oct 2020. slides video

Marrying UX and Data Visualization. With Alex Sitbon and Pouya Shabanpour, representing SHYFT/Medidata. UXPA Conference in Boston. May 2019. link

How to Integrate Data Visualization and UX into a Product Team. With Alex Sitbon and Pouya Shabanpour, representing SHYFT/Medidata. DV/UX Meetup, Venture Cafe at the Cambridge Innovation Center, Boston. Fall 2019. link

Navigating Interdependence: An Ecosystem Approach to Visualizing Complex Systems. Erica Gunn. Gordon Conference on Visualization in Science and Education, August 2017. link

Teaching

Guest Lecture: Playing with Data: A Workshop on Experimenting with Visual Form. Graduate Graphic Design 1 taught by James Grady, Boston University. Spring 2021. link

Guest Lecture: Vis Responsibly. Graduate Data Science course taught by Lance Galletti, Boston University, Oct 2020. link

Guest Lecture: Giving Form to Data. (new slides!) Graduate Graphic Design 1 taught by James Grady, Boston University. Spring 2020. link

Data Visualization Workshop. With James Grady. BU Spark! program, hosted by the Computer Science Department at Boston University. Apr 2019. link

Guest Lecture: Giving Form to Data. Graduate Graphic Design 1 taught by James Grady, Boston University. Fall 2019. link

Thesis committee member. Northeastern University, College of Arts Media and Design Graduate program. Spring 2018.

Professor: Visualization Technologies. Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design graduate school. Fall 2017. link 

Written Publications

Using Visualization to See: Exploring color in tulips through visualization. Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. Pending: Submitted to print magazine April 2024.

Data Exploration Journey Series. Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint.

  • Embrace the Challenge to Beat Imposter Syndrome. Published 1/4/2022. link
  • Step 1: Getting Oriented. Published 3/9/2022. link
  • Step 2: Going Deeper into the Analysis. Published 5/3/2022. link
  • Step 3: Productive Tangents. Gunn, E. Published 8/16/2022. link
  • Step 4: Knowing When to Stop. Gunn, E. Published 12/8/2022. link
  • Step 5: Collaborate to Accelerate. Gunn, E.  4/17/2023. link
  • Step 6: Cut to Realistic Scope. 8/21/2023. link
  • Step 7: Spin off Projects. 10/24/2023. link
  • Step 8: Build. 2/29/2024. link

Early Sketches for Career Portraits in Data Visualization. Schilling, Jenn*. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. Published 7/7/2022. link
*Note that I am not the author on this one, but I led the project as Director of Education for the DVS. Jenn is a member of my committee; I did the exploratory work and project vision, but Jenn performed the final analysis & writing.)

An Insight-Informed View of DVS Education Opportunities. Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. Published Sept 24, 2021. link

Dashboard Redesign Series. Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint.

  • How to Use Whitespace, the Punctuation Between Visual Elements (Part 1). Published 2/1/2020. link
  • Whitespace in Dashboard Design (Part 2). Published 11/24/2020. link
  • Designing for Charts (Part 3). Published 9/24/2020. link
  • Who is Your Chart For? (Part 4). 12/14/2020. link
  • What is the Purpose of your Chart? (Part 5). Gunn, E. Published 1/11/21. link
  • Dashboard Redesign: Understanding Purpose (Part 6). Gunn, E. Published 2/25/21. link
  • Dashboard Redesign: A Look at Chart Choices (Part 7). Gunn, E. Published 4/13/21. link
  • Dashboard Redesign: Why Can’t we Have More Fun? (Part 8). Gunn, E. Published June 11, 2021. link
  • The Why, the What, and the How in Data Vis (Part 9). Gunn, E. Published July 15, 2021. link

Data Vis as Guide Dog. Gunn, E. Medium article for the Data Visualization Society. Published 6/27/2019. Selected for curation in Medium collections. link

Tips for Communicating Complexity: Make the abstract tangible and connect it to people’s lives. Gunn, E. StoryBench blog, invited article, http://www.storybench.org. Published 7/21/2017. Highlighted in the Global Investigative Journalism Network’s top ten list for the week of Aug 9. link 

Exhibitions

Talking Dirt. Gallery 360, Northeastern University. Information Design and Visualization MFA Thesis Exhibition Show. May – June 2017. link