Danyel Fisher
Principal at Fisher Insights, LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDanyel Fisher is a principal-level data visualization and UX researcher who transforms complex operational data into intuitive, decision-driving interfaces. With a PhD and two decades spanning Microsoft Research to Honeycomb, he invented Honeycomb’s signature BubbleUp feature and has influenced visualization in products like Power BI and Office. He combines qualitative and quantitative methods, HCI research, and hands-on prototyping to craft tools that measurably improve troubleshooting and business outcomes. Author of Making Data Visual, holder of 30 patents and 50+ publications, he advises startups through his consultancy Fisher Insights, working with clients from Microsoft to early-stage teams. Unusually for a design researcher, he pairs deep academic rigor with product-level implementation experience, bridging prototypes to production. Based in Seattle, he helps teams unlock sophisticated users’ expertise through purposeful visual analytics and UX.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Irvine
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (80)
vega10
testing10
svg10
plot10
vega-lite10
visualization10
webpack10
dagre10
powerbi-custom-visuals9
javascript9
cytoscape9
charts9
angular9
html9
react-native9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MakingDataVisual/makingdatavisual.github.io
Dec 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 months
executablevisual-data
danyelf/mountaineers-extension
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Extension for the Mountaineers website exploring Trips In Common
Contributions:2 reviews, 15 pushes, 2 comments in 9 months
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