
Storytelling with Data
Storytelling with Data: Best Practices for Data Visualization is a workshop I offer regularly at UD. We focus on telling good stories with data visualization, and talk about graphic design principles related to data viz.
Libraries, data visualization, data literacy
Hi! I'm Kayla Abner and I am the Data Visualization and Analysis Librarian (formerly Digital Scholarship) at the University of Delaware. When teaching students about data, I prioritize taking an equity lens by inviting them to consider who created the data, why, and how the visualization might affect their interpretation. I'm interested in:
Some of my selected teaching experiences that I've especially enjoyed.
Storytelling with Data: Best Practices for Data Visualization is a workshop I offer regularly at UD. We focus on telling good stories with data visualization, and talk about graphic design principles related to data viz.
From 2022-2024, I co-taught the course Nuts and Bolts of DH Project Development with Lauren Cooper at Dream Lab at the University of Pennsylvania.
I've integrated the concept of collections as data in my teaching through workshops, and I'm thinking about how to create datasets based on special collections materials used in course instruction.
Selected research-related work, including publications and presentations, is below. My ORCID profile also covers my publications.
See my full CV or reach me through the channels below.