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Zan Armstrong
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Zan Armstrong is an American data visualization engineer. She formerly worked for Stamen Design, and currently works for Google on the Accelerated Science team specializing in data visualization. She is a community lead for D3.js. Career Armstrong started her professional career as a math teacher at the Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki after attending Williams College. She also attended the School for Poetic Computation. Notable works Armstrong is perhaps best known for a data visualization she collaborated on with Nadieh Bremer titled "Why Are so Many Babies Born around 8:00 A.M.?" The visualization won a Silver award in Science and Technology from the Information is Beautiful awards, and has received attention in the popular press. At Google, Armstrong collaborated with Martin M. Wattenberg on a new type of data visualization of Simpson's paradox. The visualization, called a comet chart, can make it easier to see multivariate relationships. She has also collaborated with other Google researchers on a project to visualize neural networks. Armstrong is a frequent speaker at conferences, including OpenVisConf, and organizations such as the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories and the University of Washington eScience Institute 
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