Frank Elavsky
PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Frank is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His work explores the intersection of technical toolmaking, interactive data science, and accessibility. Frank has been visualizing data professionally for over a decade and his contributions are used internationally by over 15 policy and governance orgs (including the European Commission and World Health Organization), in over 20 undergraduate and graduate courses, and at over 110 companies, including 3 of the "Fortune 5." Frank has had a wide array of professional, industry collaborations with corporations like Apple, Adobe, Microsoft, and Visa, to open-source data science communities like Bokeh, Quansight, Anaconda, Highsoft, and Vega-lite. His research projects include Chartability, a framework for helping practitioners evaluate inaccessible visualizations, Data Navigator, a tool that helps developers make interactive visualizations more accessible for users of assistive technologies, and Softerware, a system-design approach that helps guide architects and ecosystem engineers towards personalization and end-user agency in software systems.
Classes
John Slatin AccessU 2026
- Accessibility and Visualization: Best (and worst!) Practices