Jason Forrest is a data visualization specialist, writer, and designer living in New York City. He is the director of interactive data visualization for McKinsey and Company's COVID Response Center. In addition to being on the board of directors of the Data Visualization Society, he is also the editor-in-chief of Nightingale: the journal of the Data Visualization Society. He writes about the intersection of culture and information design and is currently working on a book about pictorial statistics.Here's the long version:I am a father, data visualization specialist, musician, and writer living in New York City. I’m currently with McKinsey & Co. as the director of interactive data visualization at the COVID Response Center.I write about the intersection of art, culture, and information. I am currently working on my first book(s) on the design and methodology of Isotype/pictorial statistics. I am also the editor-in-chief of Nightingale: the Journal of the Data Visualization Society and serve on the board of directors for the Data Visualization Society.I’m currently lecturing on my research into historic data visualization, including the data visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois and Isotype/pictorial statistics. In 2020, I presented my research at Oxford University, NYU, UPenn, Northeastern University, Northwestern University as well as conferences and dataviz groups around the world. For almost two decades, I have been an electronic musician (wikipedia) with albums on record labels in Japan, UK, USA, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Australia. Back in 2004, Pitchfork named one of my albums as "Best New Music" which paved the way for a dizzying series of adventures crisscrossing the globe. I have performed at many of the world’s major music festivals including Glastonbury (UK), Tim Festival (Brazil), Lowlands festival (Netherlands), Primavera Sound (Spain), Mutek (Canada), Pukkelpop (Belgium), Glade (UK), Arrezzowave (Italy), and Club Transmediale (Germany).I started in music by launching the Cock Rock Disco record label in 2001 which released scores of albums, vinyl, and CDs. At the time, I was hosting the influential “Advanced D&D” radio program on WFMU in NYC, which was from 2002-2008. He co-founded the Wasted Festival with Pure and in conjunction with Club Transmediale (CTM) in 2005. Lastly, I co-founded the online video site Network Awesome, managing a 75 member volunteer team to develop and run the site. We had a dedicated fan base with an average time on site of 25 minutes with more than 6 million viewers, but the project concluded in 2014.