just another person making stuff for the internet // thedataface.com
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Michael Hester retweeted
30 Jul 2025
🚨 New Teammate Alert 🚨
We’re thrilled to welcome Kazi Awal as the newest member of The DataFace!
He joined us this week as a Senior Design Engineer, bringing a powerful mix of UX thinking, front-end skills, and data storytelling expertise to our development team.
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Michael Hester retweeted
24 Jul 2025
New project with @yufengzhao_: What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?
pudding.cool/2025/07/street-…
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Michael Hester retweeted
9 Jul 2025
We're incredibly grateful to the @SND for recognizing seven of our projects from 2024. These stories wouldn’t have been possible without the trust and collaboration of our amazing partners at @statesunited, @taaforg, @CampaignZero, @Instacart, @PRMESecretariat — thank you.
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Michael Hester retweeted
27 May 2025
May is AAPI Heritage Month, and we're proud to showcase several collaborative projects with @taaforg .
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Michael Hester retweeted
15 May 2025
Women spend 25% more time in poor health than men.
The impact of closing the women’s health gap goes beyond healthcare. Addressing the gap will add almost 27 million disability-adjusted life years annually and $400 billion to the global GDP by 2040.
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Michael Hester retweeted
8 May 2025
The DataFace just got a makeover.
We’ve been heads down reimagining our brand, and we’re finally ready to reveal it.
New look, same purpose, only reimagined.
thedataface.com/
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Michael Hester retweeted
18 Apr 2025
👀 It’s time.
New look, same purpose.
Stay tuned.
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Michael Hester retweeted
16 Apr 2025
We’re thrilled to share that our project, Health Care Prices, in partnership with @HealthCostInst is a 2025 @TheWebbyAwards Honoree in the Health and Wellness category!
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Michael Hester retweeted
27 Feb 2025
We’re revisiting a collaboration with @statesunited that tracks Election Deniers holding major statewide and federal offices that control, oversee, or are tasked with defending elections.
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Michael Hester retweeted
8 Jan 2025
The DataFace team collaborated with @ReSchool_CO, Moonshot, and Embark Education to create an interactive database that shines a spotlight on the out-of-school education ecosystem in Denver, Colorado.
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Michael Hester retweeted
7 Nov 2024
@ArjunKakkar15 Maritza and team collaborated with @nkf and @HealthCostInst to build a comprehensive #dataviz dashboard that sheds light on the state of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and the significant gaps in CKD-related care in the United States.
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Michael Hester retweeted
24 Oct 2024
How it started vs. how it’s going...
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Michael Hester retweeted
10 Oct 2024
In 2021, the FBI recorded 753 anti-Asian hate incidents in the US, a 125% increase from 2020. This was no accident.
Our team, with @taaforg, published “Roots of Racism” to visualize this sudden spike in hate — and understand the forces that may have given rise to it.
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Michael Hester retweeted
12 Sep 2024
As the new school year begins, @samvickars @sawyerdabear and team partnered with @taaforg to launch an interactive hub designed specifically for K-12 educators.
This hub offers 200 vetted resources on AAPI history, including activities, lesson plans, and primary sources.
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Michael Hester retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Today, TAAF in partnership with @AAAJ_Chicago, @OCANational & @AsianAmEdu is excited to launch the #AAPIHistoryHub—an online educational platform designed to provide K-12 educators with access to high-quality curricular resources on AAPI history. Visit aapihistoryhub.org now
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Michael Hester retweeted
6 Sep 2024
In August, we partnered with @CampaignZero to commemorate 10 years of transformative campaigns and collective action that have driven meaningful reforms in policing and criminal justice.
Led by Maritza and @sawyerdabear.
Explore the journey here: impact.campaignzero.org/
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Michael Hester retweeted
24 Apr 2024
🎉 Thrilled to announce that we've gotten the top prize in TWO categories from @TheWebbyAwards! 🏆🏆
Huge thanks to our partners at @SUAction and @taaforg, our team, and the judges for this honor.
Go check out both sites:
electiondeniers.org/
impactaapi.org/
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Michael Hester retweeted
25 Jan 2024
We’re excited to announce The Pudding’s 2024 Cohort, a 10-week summer fellowship for aspiring visual storytellers.
🧑‍🎓 Open to college/graduate-level students and recent grads
📅 June 18 – Sept 1
đź’° $7,200 stipend
đź“ť More details at this link!
pudding.cool/career/cohort/
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Michael Hester retweeted
8 Dec 2023
🎉 Exciting news! 🎉
We won Best in Interactive Content at the 2023 Shorty Impact Awards for our recent work with @taaforg.🏆
Proud of this collaboration! Check it out at impactaapi.org
#ShortyImpactAwards #AAPICommunity #Innovation #Partnership
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Michael Hester retweeted
29 Aug 2023
We worked with @taaforg to create The AAPI Nonprofit Database — an interactive public resource that catalogues 600 nonprofits (and counting) dedicated to supporting the AAPI community.
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