Kim Rees is an American computer scientist and data visualization professional located in the Washington DC area. She is currently the head of Data Visualization at Capital One.[1] Prior to joining Capital One, Rees co-founded the data visualization firm, Periscopic and worked there for 13 years.[2] Rees is perhaps best known for her work on a Periscopic project visualizing gun deaths.[3]
Kim Rees | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Awards | APDU Data Viz Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Data Visualization |
Career edit
Rees started her career after graduating from New York University with a B.A. in Computer science in 1993. She worked as a programmer at Interfilm from 1994 to 1996; then moved on to R/GA until late 1997. For the next seven years, she worked independently as a programmer and strategist, working primarily in languages such as c++ and Java. She worked for clients such as Chipotle Mexican Grill and Warner Bros. She worked as an advisor to the US Congressional Budget Office.[4]
Rees was one of the first practitioners of data visualization.[5] She has spoken at major conferences, including the Eyeo festival and Strata.[4][2] She served as a judge for the data visualization competitions WikiViz Challenge 2011 and CommArts Interactive Annual 2012.[6][7][8]
Rees is known for her work with Periscopic, her data visualization company that aims to "do good with data."[9] In particular, the visualization US Gun Deaths received a lot of media mentions.[10][3] As an expert in data and visualization, Rees is often called on to comment about current events.[11][12][13] She argues that "Data is a language... a means to convey an opinion, an argument." and uses that philosophy to inform how she works with data and imagery.[14][15]
She was a guest on the Data Stories podcast, hosted by Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner.[16]
Awards edit
References edit
- ^ Rees, Kim (2017-04-18). "Launching Data Visualization at Capital One". ONE Design Community. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- ^ a b "Kim Rees Is Speaking at Strata + Hadoop World in New York 2015". conferences.oreilly.com. Retrieved 2018-02-03.
- ^ a b Valentina Palladino (2013-02-06). "Gun-death Data Boldly Illustrates Stolen Years". Wired.
- ^ a b "Kim Rees". eyeo festival.
- ^ Mark Wilson (2013-03-25). "What's The Secret To Great Infographics?". FastCo Design.
- ^ "Kim Rees keynote Strata Conference London 2012 "The Dirty Truth about Data Literacy"". YouTube.
- ^ Dario Taraborelli (2011-07-15). "WikiViz 2011: Visualizing the impact of Wikipedia". Wikimedia Foundation.
- ^ Kim Rees (2012-03-06). "Reflections on Being a Juror for the 18th Communication Arts Interactive Annual". Periscopic.
- ^ "Periscopic: Do Good With Data".
- ^ "US Gun Deaths".
- ^ Mark Wilson (2016-11-17). "Why We Had No Idea Trump Would Win". FastCo Design.
- ^ Maria-Xenia Hardt (2013-05-28). "Kim Rees on data visualization: There's a story in every piece of data". ISOJ.
- ^ Christiansen, Jen (2014-02-18). "Don't Just Visualize DataVisceralize It". Scientific American.
- ^ Cotgreave, Andy (2016-06-28). "Lies, damn lies, and statistics: How to take something positive from the UK's EU referendum campaign". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
- ^ "Episode #64: Kim Rees". Policy Viz. 2017-05-06. Retrieved 2018-10-05.
- ^ "99: Data Visualization at Capital One with Kim Rees and Steph Hay". 2017-02-06.
- ^ Brendan Buff (2017-08-15). "Announcing: 2017 APDU Data Viz Awards Winners". Association of Public Data Users.
- ^ Kim Rees (2010-12-28). "Our VAST Challenge Award".