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home frank elavsky frank elavsky collab projects pubs talks blog cv bluesky github hi i m frank elavsky i design and build software systems for human interaction my current work is situated on toolmaking at the intersection of data visualization and accessibility making better frameworks and software tools for practitioners to make data visualizations accessible for people with disabilities i hope to continue to design and build interfaces infrastructures and tools that enable everyone including people with disabilities to live full lives my work has been recognized for its significant societal contributions shaping systems work in 15 government and policy orgs internationally world health organization european commission 80 businesses and corporations including 3 of the fortune 5 20 news and journalism groups bbc nyt 50 community organizations and non profits special olympics data viz society and 24 higher ed classrooms as of fall of 2026 i am an assistant professor of data science at cal poly in san luis obispo i am also the principal of my own consulting firm specalizing in engineering architecture and r d in the domains of data science accessibility and visualization tooling i am open to collaboration with students fellow academics and ngo non profit governmental policy and industry partners which you can find more details about in my call for collaborations assistant prof of data science cal poly felavsky calpoly edu san luis obispo ca featured projects bokeh audit we performed an in depth accessibility evaluation for the interactive data visualization python library bokeh demo website code paper softerware softerware is an approach for designing systems that can be customized and personalized by people with disabilities demo website code paper data navigator data navigator is a system for creating accessible data structures that can be navigated with a variety of assistive technologies demo website code paper chartability chartability is a set of principles and heuristics for evaluating the accessibility of data experiences demo website code paper show more projects featured publications towards softerware enabling personalization of interactive data representations for users with disabilities frank elavsky marita vindedal ted gies patrick carrington dominik moritz øystein moseng cg a and ieee vis 2025 data navigator an accessibility centered data navigation toolkit frank elavsky lucas nadolskis dominik moritz ieee vis 2023 how accessible is my visualization evaluating visualization accessibility with chartability frank elavsky cynthia bennett dominik moritz eurovis 2022 show all publications my background i earned my phd in human computer interaction at the human computer interaction institute in carnegie mellon university s school of computer science i was advised by dominik moritz and patrick carrington and was a member of the data interaction group and axle lab during my phd i had collaborations with wonderful folks at highsoft s highcharts apple adobe fizz studio sri uw madison s wgnhs northwestern university s mlds quansight labs fivethirtyeight tldraw visa and microsoft i was formerly a w3c invited expert in data visualization in the aria working group and currently still volunteer my time with other efforts before embarking on a phd i was a staff design systems engineer at visa on their data experience team and lead contributor to the accessibility efforts of their first open source library visa chart components we were able to do some pretty extraordinary things together and i am fortunate to have worked alongside such world class folks prior to visa i had a high octane 2 years at northwestern university working for research computing services providing data visualization support to over two dozen research projects across a wide range of disciplines several of my projects won awards and have been featured in over 60 research publications including the privilege of being uncredited in the 2017 nobel lecture on physics 100 web articles 4 phd theses 4 graduate courses and 9 textbooks in my early career before northwestern i worked in federal policy analyzing large complex medicare medicaid datasets and building visualization tools for lawyers and policymakers and before i had a career in any singular sense which i embarked on when i graduated undergrad in 2016 i worked many different jobs since as far back as age 7 with only 1 gap where i wasn t working at least some job on the side or sick from disability most of these are part time overlapping and off and on they re listed in reverse chronological order based on the last time i did that job institutional research intern 1yr barista 9yrs community organizer 3yrs night security 2yrs editor 1 5yrs greek and english tutor 2yrs professional and volunteer youth worker 4yrs assistant manager of a pottery fused glass workshop 2yrs toy store clerk 2yrs small business owner 2yrs carpenter and residential painter 3yrs furniture mover 2yrs commissioned artist 0 5yrs pizza maker 1 5yrs doughboy and dishrat 2yrs confectioner s apprentice 1 5yrs and paperboy 7yrs i won paperboy of the quarter in q1 of 2004 and subsequently quit the following quarter i still have the plaque my mom first got me that job initially under her name since employing a 7 year old is definitely against child labor laws she was very pro when it came to child labor there were about 1 5 years between age 14 in 04 and my first wage job at 15 5 where i didn t have any job consequently that was also the time i assembled my first coherent draft of braven which i had started working on in 02 and still work on to this day despite all of this i am definitely anti hustle culture 7 year olds shouldn t be delivering papers and when i wasn t working for that tiny window in my childhood i gave life to my favorite longest running hobby writing fiction i look forward to many future nights weekends and years of my life where i m not laboring quite as much all the best things i ve done in my life didn t make any money at all latest news i have accepted a job as an assistant professor of data science at cal poly in san luis obispo starting fall of 26 a dream come true feb 2026 i wrote a short summary of my thesis proposal for ieee vis s doctoral colloquium apr 2025 thesis status proposed i m officially a ph d candidate now apr 2025 big news in collaboration with quansight we ve released our massive accessibility audit of bokeh a python visualization ecosystem feb 2025 i only have one class left i ve chosen to take programming for game design as a fun final hurrah jan 2025 i m excited to be traveling to assets for the first time i hope to meet up with so many folks oct 2024 latest visits feb 8 11 26 job search visit secret location jan 28 29 26 job search visit secret location jan 25 27 26 job search visit secret location dec 12 18 25 vacation new zealand dec 10 12 25 invited speaker yow sydney dec 8 9 25 invited speaker yow brisbane dec 7 25 vacation stradbroke island australia dec 6 25 keynote speaker ddd brisbane dec 1 4 25 invited speaker yow melbourne nov 19 20 25 job search visit secret location hello from san luis obispo july 2026 see a bug on this page give me feedback assistant professor of data science investigating accessibility and data interaction previously phd from cmu data interaction r d at adobe highsoft apple visa others i m frank computer on bluesky