Julie Steele is Director of Communications at Silicon Valley Data Science. She thinks in metaphors and finds beauty in the clear communication of ideas. Julie is particularly drawn to visual media as a way to understand and transmit information, and is coauthor of Beautiful Visualization (O’Reilly, 2010) and Designing Data Visualizations (O’Reilly, 2012) in addition to multiple reports on the ways data science is being used across industries from health care to fashion.