Help Shape Nightingale’s Future!

How to get involved with print edition planning, Two Truths and a Lie with the editors, and science/tech-inspired animal art

Claire Santoro

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4 min readMar 11, 2021

It’s been one month since we announced Nightingale’s expansion into print at Outlier, and you may have noticed a few changes already. In order to get the capacity we need to expand into print, we have made some changes to our editorial process and publishing schedule. We now publish three articles each week; be sure to check out our new guidelines and pre-publication worksheet before submitting.

But still, we can’t manage the print expansion alone! We want your help thinking through ideas and priorities. What should the print edition look like? How can we create a sustainable funding model? If you’re interested in weighing in, you can read more about our vision for the print concept, review the jamboard of ideas from our Volunteer Rallies, watch a recorded Volunteer Rally (passcode: 6d?&B7YH), and, most importantly, sign up for the committee(s) that interest you.

Sign up for Nightingale Expansion Committees: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf9lfgTPFJhGB_kRRSKcM1_ZdNdxRw8QRCFYNBW1Dw4N3_y0g/viewform

Meet the Editors

Ever wondered who’s working behind the scenes to get your articles ready for publication at Nightingale? In last month’s issue, you met Editor-in-Chief Jason Forrest and Managing Editor Mary Aviles. Over the next couple issues, we’ll introduce you to the rest of our editorial team.

To keep things fun (always a goal at Nightingale!), we will be introducing ourselves with Two Truths and a Lie. Which of these fun “facts” is not true? Read to the end of this issue to find out.

Editor portraits were drawn by Yifan Luo.

Senthil Natarajan

Senthil is known for doing data things and Red Pants Fridays, but not necessarily in that order. Find him @SENTH1S on Twitter.

Two truths and a lie:

I’ve eaten sushi at the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo.
I have a stuffed turtle that is autographed by members of the New Orleans Saints 2009 Super Bowl winning team.
I only own three pairs of shoes.

Claire Santoro

Claire is an environmental analyst and information designer with a passion for energy, sustainability, and the outdoors. Find her @ClaireESantoro on Twitter.

Two truths and a lie:

As a teenager I performed with a circus, tap dancing and juggling at the same time.
I have a pet lizard named Athena.
In 2018, I traveled to 13 countries while living in France.

Noëlle Rakotondravony

Noëlle is a PhD student in computer science, doing research on the intersection of data visualization and human languages. Find her @curiouslemur on Twitter.

Two truths and a lie:

I speak eight languages and do translation as a side job.
I grew up on an island.
My very first D3.js graph ever was a pie chart and it took me three hours to get it done.

In the Wild

Do you know why there are animals on the covers of O’Reilly books? Read the backstory (https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreilly-animals/) then ID the animals on your own books (https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp).

Animals are also the centerpiece of Mesa Schumacher and Alli Torban’s charming sci-art collaboration, where Mesa draws an animal and Alli translates it into a pattern that Mesa uses to dress up the animal: https://twitter.com/mesabree/status/1369514031451574274

In Case You Missed It

Asterisk Nation: One Tribe’s Challenge to Find Data About its Population

A data storyteller and an epidemiologist pair up to share their experiences with The Yurok Tribe in northern California. Andy Krackov and Sarah Marikos explore the question of how to analyze findings and visualize results when data for important communities are simply not reported.

An image from the Yurok Tribe’s home page: https://www.yuroktribe.org/.

Who Will Shape the Future of Data Visualization? Today’s Kids!

Today’s kids live in a completely different world. They are exposed to charts from a young age. But seeing is not understanding. Rebeca Pop interviews a variety of stakeholders, exploring ways to encourage data literacy early.