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

Speaking/Presentations

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

Step 5 in the Data Exploration Journey: Collaborate to Accelerate. Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. In process 4/9/2023. 

Step 4 in the Data Exploration Journey: Knowing When to Stop. Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. Published 12/8/2022. link

Step 3 in the Data Exploration Journey: Productive Tangents. Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. Published 8/16/2022. link

Early Sketches for Career Portraits in Data Visualization. Jenn Schilling*. 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.)

Step 2 in the Data Exploration Journey: Going Deeper into the Analysis. Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. Published 5/3/2022. link

Step 1 in the Data Exploration Journey: Getting Oriented. Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. Published 3/9/2022. link

Embrace the Challenge to Beat Imposter Syndrome. Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. Published 1/4/2022. link

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: The Why, the What, and the How in Data Vis (Part 9). Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. Published July 15, 2021. link

Dashboard Redesign: Why Can’t we Have More Fun? (Part 8). Gunn, E. Article for the Data Visualization Society, Nightingale Imprint. Published June 11, 2021. link

Dashboard Redesign: A Look at Chart Choices (Part 7). Gunn, E. Medium article for the Data Visualization Society. Published 4/13/21. link

Dashboard Redesign: Understanding Purpose (Part 6). Gunn, E. Medium article for the Data Visualization Society. Published 2/25/21. link

What is the Purpose of your Chart? (Part 5). Gunn, E. Medium article for the Data Visualization Society. Published 1/11/21. link

Who is Your Chart For? (Part 4). Gunn, E. Medium article for the Data Visualization Society. Published 12/14/2020. link

Designing for Charts (Part 3). Gunn, E. Medium article for the Data Visualization Society. Published 9/24/2020. link

Whitespace in Dashboard Design (Part 2). Gunn, E. Medium article for the Data Visualization Society. Published 11/24/2020. link

How to Use Whitespace, the Punctuation Between Visual Elements (Part 1). Gunn, E. Medium article for the Data Visualization Society. Published 2/1/2020. 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