Susie Lu is an American data scientist and the senior data visualization engineer at

Netflix Netflix, Inc. is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service and production company based in Los Gatos, California. Founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California, it offers a fi ...

. She uses her knowledge of data visualization to present logical and graphical formats to help

appropriately interpret user's data.

Life and education

Lu has been using her skills in data visualization at Netflix since April 2015. Lu obtained a

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...

in painting and industrial and systems engineering from the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

in 2010. Lu has used these two different majors to allow herself to truly interact with data visualization in the most appropriate way. After school, Lu worked for Silicon Valley Data Science as a Data Scientist and Data Visualization Developer before she moved to Netflix.

Work

In her free time away from Netflix, Lu works on data visualization projects. Currently, she is turning grocery shopping receipts into data visualizations that are unique and easier to understand. On this receipt, Lu divides it into a bubble chart and bar chart to better depict what areas of produce she is spending her money on. Lu bought a thermal printer to create receipts that allowed her to look at what categories of food she spent the most in. Outside of Netflix and her time spent working on data visualizations, Lu is a cartoonist and artist.

Awards

Lu was nominated for a Dean's Medal in Painting and Systems Engineering from the University of Washington. Her biggest accomplishment, "all of the dashboards our team has made at Netflix in the last year. It’s so rewarding to build an application and have users tell us that it’s a delight to use. We’re helping the business get more out of their data than they ever have before".

References

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