Designed by
RJ Andrews
Data storyteller RJ Andrews is obsessed with data graphics. He helps organizations solve high-stakes problems with visual metaphors and persuasive graphics. He recently produced designs for The White House, Google, and MIT.
RJ's newest book is Info We Trust: How to Create Value with Data Graphics. He is also author of Florence Nightingale: Mortality and Health Diagrams and co-translator of Étienne-Jules Marey: The Graphic Method. In 2022, he published Information Graphic Visionaries, a series celebrating spectacular data-visualization creators. Learn about all publications at Visionary Press.
RJ lives/works in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.
Buzz
Data stories presented to or received coverage from:
AAAS Science, Airbnb, ASA Chance, Anheuser-Busch, Asana, BBC More or Less, Bloomberg MapLab, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, Colossal, Corriere Della Sera, Design Boom, Ditchley Foundation, Duke University, Facebook, Fast Company, FDA, Flaunt magazine, Huffpost, Its Nice That, Le Monde, Microsoft, MIT, National Geographic, Netflix, Oprah magazine, PRINT magazine, Richard Branson, RSS Signficance, Scientific American, Smithsonian, Stanford University, USAID, The White House, and many more.
Publications collected by:
American Philosophical Society, Amherst College, Boston Public Library, University of Colorado Boulder, David Rumsey Map Collection, University of Denver, Durham University, Florence Nightingale Museum, Free University of Berlin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Lethbridge, Library Company of Philadelphia, London College of Communication, MIT, Michigan State University, Middlebury College, Newberry Library, North Carolina State University, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), University of Oregon, Princeton University, University of Southern Maine, Skidmore College, Stanford University, Tokyo Keizai University, University of Toronto, UCLA Library, U.S. Library of Congress, Utrecht University Library, Wichita State University, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and Zentralbibliothek Zürich.
Curriculum Vitae
DATA STORYTELLING
2024 Delicious Parks with Wendy Shijia Wang
2020 Cloud Zoo illustrated interactive explorer for The Pudding
2020 Covid-19 information graphics for U.S. Food and Drug Administration
2020 Covid-19 interactive for Stanford University et al.
2020 Cross-sections through California original crowd-funded print
2019 Neil and Buzz Go For a Walk Apollo 11 interactive
2019 Startup Cartography Project interactive map of American entrepreneurship
2017 Proudly Brewed Across America looping infographics for Budweiser
2017 Map of Firsts: an interactive timeline of the most iconic infographics
2016 Motion information graphics presented to The White House OSTP
2016 Profling the Parks short film about U.S. National Park System
2015 Data City comic about Las Vegas
2015 Board member overlap infographic about interlocking directorates
2015 Endangered Safari threatened species interactive
2015 Bloom: one year in a Virginia garden looping information graphic
2014 Creative Routines
2013 USS Constitution synoptic chart triptych
BOOKS
2024 Info We Trust: How to Create Value with Data Graphics (Visionary Press)
2022 Florence Nightingale: Mortality and Health Diagrams (Visionary Press)
2022 Étienne-Jules Marey: The Graphic Method with Georges Hattab (Visionary Press)
2019 Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World with Data (Wiley)
RESEARCH PAPERS, EXHIBITIONS, TEACHING
2024 Persuasive Data Graphics, Letterform Archive public workshop
2024 Principles of Data Graphics, Cooper Union public workshop
2022 "Florence Nightingale's Data Revolutoin" (Scientific American)
2021 "The radiant diagrams of Florence Nightingale," with Michael Friendly, SORT
2020 Data Visualization and the Modern Imagination exhibition curator, Stanford University
2020 Contributions to "The Startup Cartography Project: Measuring and Mapping Entrepreneurial Ecosystems"
2017 Work selected for 21st Century Communication by National Gegraphic Learning
2017 Work selected for Data Visualization For Success, a Chinese-English bilingual by book by Images
2015 Graphics for "Where is Silicon Valley?" by Jorge Guzman and Scott Stern published in Science
2014 Work selected for Infographics Design, a Japanese-English bilingual book by BNN
JURIES AND AWARDS
2023 Delicious U.S. Parks selected for NACIS Atlas of Design
2024 Am. Statistical Assoc. Symposium on Data Science & Statistics, Referee
2020 Cross-sections through California selected for NACIS Atlas of Design
2019 Jury at MIT Research Slam @Stanford
2019 Jury at World Bank VizRisk Challenge
2018 Jury at IEEE PacficVis Data Storytelling Contest
2017 Map of Firsts Information is Beautiful Awards Shortlist
2016 Are Gazelles Endangered? awarded AAAS Data Storytelling Professional Winner
2016 Profiling the Parks Information is Beautiful Awards Longlist
2015 Endangered Safari Information is Beautiful Awards Longlist
2014 Creative Routines Information is Beautiful Awards Gold Infographic award
TALKS
2024 Compared to what? How to create value with data graphics, U.S. Census Bureau
2023 Circular Delights, Ruderman Conference on Cartography, Stanford
2021 Florence Nightingale is a Data Storytelling Hero, FWD50 conference
2021 How to Plug the Big Hole in Digital Viz, Information+ conference
2021 In conversation with RJ Andrews, Ditchley Foundation
2021 Florence Nightingale is a Design Hero, Outlier
2020 The Bar Chart: Official Rules and Regulations at S-H-O-W, Netherlands
2020 Info We Trust: How to Inspire the World at David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford
2019 Making Info We Trust at IEEE VisInPractice conference in Vancouver, BC
2019 How data viz sees cartography at NACIS in Tacoma, Washington
2019 Info We Trust book tour: Airbnb, Facebook, Smithsonian Institute, Spotify, etc.
2015 Heroes of Interpolation, Tapestry data storytelling conference in Athens, Georgia
ESSAYS
2020 God's Revenge Upon Murder cover art for Significance Magazine
2020 Illustration Invades Everything translation of Charles-Joseph Minard
2020 Couture Cartography: These hand-stitched maps will fill you with joy
2019 Classic Map Color Design: Recreating palettes from the Albums de Statistique Graphique
2019 Dissecting 'Anatomy of a Giant': A design interview with Fernando G. Baptista about his giraffe marvel
2019 Florence Nightingale is a Design Hero" for Journal of the Data Visualization Society
2019 Tear Up Your Baseline: A design flourish for line charts
2019 Data Shadows published in Signficance Magazine
2018 Eight original essays about book design related to Info We Trust
2017 Picturing the Great Migration cover story for Significance Magazine with Howard Wainer
2016 Data Viz in the Movies: How information graphics benefit feature films
2016 Turning Data Into Cash: Creating meaningful businesses
2016 Complex Curiosity: How to renounce control and embrace the world
EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University
