Mandi Cai 💁🏻‍♀️

BERTIE! Do you have enough mustard to fill a bathtub?? @tucaandbertie

Today I'm starting as an Assistant Professor at @umdcs! I'm seeking PhD students to join my lab for Fall 25. Check out my new lab website for more details: fig-x.github.io. I also welcome connections with students and colleagues interested in collaborations! 🐢

How do structurally disempowered people respond to algorithmic harms? In our new #FAccT2024 paper, we synthesize documented cases into a taxonomy that connects to existing theorizations of power. 1/n

Really cool to see how all of our work intersects in the policy + elections + visualization space, and yet all have distinct flavors Link to my work 🗳️: mucollective.northwestern.edu/project/2024-v… Fumeng's work 🎲: mucollective.northwestern.edu/project/2024-d… Lily's work 📈: mucollective.northwestern.edu/project/2024-v…

WE DID IT! I presented @mjskay and I's work "Watching the Election Sausage Get Made: How Data Journalists Visualize the Vote Counting Process in U.S. Elections" in the same session as my amazing colleagues @fumeng_yang and Lily Ge #CHI24

On Wed at 11am, we will present three papers at the 'Governance and Public Policies' session: 'In Dice We Trust' by me 🏆, 'V-FRAMER' by Lily Ge, and 'Election Sausage' by @MandiCai 🏅. Join us and collect our stickers! 🎲🔍🌭#CHI2024

1/ Delighted to announce the @texastribune is hiring a journalist to build data pipelines and develop new tools as we reimagine our education coverage! texastribune.org/jobs/education… Here’s a little more about the role…

The MU Collective - codirected by @JessicaHullman and @mjskay - presented impactful research and received prestigious awards @ieeevis. Prof. Kay received the Significant New Researcher Award and a paper by 10 Northwestern authors won a Best Paper Award. bit.ly/3u8ySGW

Fewer public oyster harvesting areas are open in Texas 🦪 Read the story by @emfoxhall @alereports texastribune.org/2023/11/03/tex… Graphics inspired by some 浮世絵 (ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock prints from Edo period)

It's hard to believe it's been 10 years of SRCCON! 🎂 Seeing all the familiar and new faces in our @OpenNews community together in a room again brings all of us immense joy. #SRCCON2023

Interested in doing a PhD in HCI, CSS, or something else at the intersection of Tech + Society? The @NU_SoC @NorthwesternEng joint program in TSB is hosting a virtual information session to answer your questions. Register and join to learn more! tinyurl.com/tsbphd

“Thanks everyone for comments on the draft, here it is revised with all your edits.”

🎉 It's our official schedule for SRCCON 2023!! 🎉 This community has so many amazing sessions planned for each day in Minneapolis next month—and there's still room for you! You should join us! 2023.srccon.org/schedule/

not me again adjusting the pixel width of the margins on my figures instead of editing my paper's discussion section

@tylrfishr @19thnews Wowowowow congratulations!!!!

writing past 10 PM means the joy of waking up tomorrow and editing all my sarcastic, comedic prose!!!

As a new Texan who experienced her first summer in Texas, yes, I thought it was so brutally hot 🥵 But turned out it was Texas' second hottest summer on record. Many cities saw weeks of 100-degree days -- with @erinmdouglas23 texastribune.org/2023/09/07/tex…

@yuriko_a_s @erinmdouglas23 This heat map/bar chart + line chart combo 🥵 wow

The Ken Paxton impeachment trial started this morning. To get yourself up to speed, make sure you read @yuriko_a_s and @James_Barragan's incredible visual explainers #txlege 1. Who's who in the trial: texastribune.org/2023/09/01/ken… 2. How it will operate: texastribune.org/2023/09/04/ken…

fave moment during lab paper swap today: @hyeok__kim comments on my paper "make this less wordy" and i read it as "make this less nerdy?!?!? what???"

The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel – I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours. Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.