BIO

Danyel Fisher is a researcher and designer whose passion is in working with users to help them best understand and act on their data. He works as a consultant, helping clients delight their users.

He worked as Principal Design Researcher for Honeycomb.io from 2018-2022, where he focused his passion for data visualization on helping engineers understand their complex systems quickly and clearly. He spent thirteen years at Microsoft Research, working in human-computer interaction and data visualization. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine, in 2004. He has carried out research on big data and progressive analytics, approximate querying, and understanding user experiences around data.

He has co-authored three books: “Progressive Data Analytics” (Eurographics, forthcoming), “Making Data Visual” (O’Reilly, 2017) and “From Usenet to Co-Webs” (Springer, 2003), as well as technical and academic articles.

When not filling screens with data, he can be found filling his lungs with fresh air, most often hiking up the side of one of the Pacific Northwest’s beautiful mountains.

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I am available to conduct scoreless peer review.