Welcome our new Data Visualization Specialist McCall Pitcher!

McCall Pitcher joined CDVS at the end of October 2024 and is delighted to start her first full semester supporting Duke students, faculty, and staff as they create effective data visualizations. McCall comes to Duke from George Washington University, where she spent two years teaching data visualization to graduate students in the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration. Her course equipped students with core theoretical approaches around graphical communication, data storytelling principles, and foundational R programming techniques to clean and visualize data.

McCall brings nearly five years of experience from American Institutes for Research, where she built many data visualizations and diagrams for clients including the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She has also worked as a data visualization contractor for researchers and professors at the University of Maryland and the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.

Passionate about making graphics clean and clear, McCall looks forward to consulting and instructing in a way that prioritizes both aesthetic and story. In her short time in this role, McCall has already been blown away by the Duke community’s talent and subject matter expertise — she can’t wait to continue helping all these brilliant minds visually communicate their exciting findings and ideas.