Nightingale is an online and print magazine of the Data Visualization Society, a community of data visualization professionals. For their second print issue, Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec created an analogue data creation challenge called Dear Nightingale: Paper and NO Pencil? The challenge was to create a handmade data object to visualize a dataset but drawing was not allowed.

In July 2022, Stop AAPI Hate released a report of the 11,500 reported hate incidents between March 19, 2020 and March 31, 2022. Within their technical appendix, they had broken out the types of reported anti-AAPI hate incidents. It was important to me to visualize this kind of data because I personally experienced and reported anti-AAPI hate incidents during those two years. I thought it would be impactful to visualize this data with human figures to humanize the data. It took me about one week of cutting 1,595 human figures to visualize the magnitude of the issue at hand.

This piece was included with other amazing work in the second print issue of the Nightingale in December 2022.