Taiwan Data Stories is a collaborative project that was started by two Taiwanese dataviz professionals, Daisy and Julia. Along the way, talented collaborators, including Joyce and Yu-Wen, joined and contributed to various stories. We use creative multimedia to share Taiwan’s rich culture with a wider audience. Our goal is to diversify the visual storytelling scene that’s often curated through a Western lens.
At the 2021 global dataviz conference, Outlier, dataviz developer Julia Janicki and dataviz designer Daisy Chung noticed a lack of Asian voices and representation in Western media. In response, Taiwan Data Stories was created as a collaborative, multimedia project that hopes to:
Expand data-driven storytelling to Taiwan and the Asian community at large, where the field is relatively new
Share Taiwan’s rich, nuanced stories, which often get lost in translation in the media’s Western-dominant narratives
Build a community of Taiwanese talent eager to learn, collaborate, connect and have fun