Jagoda Walny Email & Phone Number

Currently: Leading and building a UX design + data visualization team at the Canada Energy Regulator. Some projects I am proud to be a part of:> BERDI, our new search + exploration tool for environmental and socio-economic data: (www.cer-rec.gc.ca/berdi) - honorable mention in the 2022 Future of Government awards' Open Source Adaptation of the Year category.> Exploring Canada's Energy Future, an interactive data visualization for exploring Canada's energy production and consumption trends and forecasts (https://apps2.cer-rec.gc.ca/energy-future/).I work to help people understand and think about data. To do this, I need to understand people's thinking needs and foster the creativity to meet those needs.I am trained as a researcher in Information Visualization and Human-Computer Interaction. In my doctoral work, I studied "thinking sketches" — the annotations, doodles, and notes that people use to help themselves think in their day-to-day lives — to learn how to develop new data visualization interfaces that support individualized thinking processes. Some highlights include exploring a "what you draw is what you get" pen + touch interface for visualization; studying data sketches to see the myriad layers of information people encode when making visualizations by hand; and introducing the idea of active reading of visualizations. More info at research.jagoda.ca.I like to use qualitative observation methods such as interviewing or studying collections of sketches. The data collected this way is rich, individualized, and multi-layered and can inspire entirely new ways of designing visualizations.