Seminar: Data Visualizations and Internationalization

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Friday, May 26 at 3:40 PM PST in BANNAN 401 (refreshment at 3:20 PM)

Written by Wan Bae
May 1, 2023

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Speaker

Naomi Meyer, Software Engineer at Adobe

Abstract 

Building custom data visualizations with full international support is not always easy. As a Software Engineer on the globalization team at Adobe, Naomi has worked on adding new data visualization features and modifying legacy visualizations, for an international audience of users. It’s been a learning process to correctly format strings, numbers, dates, times, currencies, calendars, x/y axis, and more! In this talk, Naomi will share some of the useful techniques she's learned about customizing data visualizations for a global audience. With a focus on JavaScript, she will discuss high level ideas to keep in mind when designing, coding, testing, internationalizing, and localizing data visualizations for the world wide web!

Biography

Naomi works as a Software Development Engineer at Adobe on the Globalization, Core Services team where she leads internationalization and localization for Adobe products. She speaks at international software engineering conferences, contributes to open source, and volunteers teaching girls to code. Before coding full time, Naomi worked as a teacher across Asia and West Africa. She enjoys weekends outside with her dog - backcountry skiing, climbing, and mountaineering. 

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