Cameron Yick - summary of involvement with Vega ecosystems

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• Purpose: Summarize Cameron's involvement with the Vega ecosystem
• Audience: Vega governance / people curious about what public involvement I have with the Vega project

Ecosystem

• Created / maintain Vega-Lite Figjam plugin
• Created offline versions of Vega and Vega-Lite docs for Dash documentation gallery
  • PRs include links to source scripts
• Prepared internal talks for employer demonstrating benefit and uses of Vega-Lite / Altair
• Engaged with researchers involved with grammar and vizrec projects at remote versions of IEEE Vis 2021, 2022, and 2024
• Drove adoption of Vega/Vega-Lite in Datadog, now used in Dashboards, Notebooks, and App-Builder

Documentation

• Authored Vega-Lite tutorials
  • 2018: NYC Public Datasets
  • 2018: PI Day Linked scatterplot animation. (This was my first time using Vega-Lite for something in public!)
  • Scrollycoding (link is broken due to changes in codesandbox API, hope to fix it someday)

Code contributions

All changes

• Proposed + implemented automatic releases across Vega repos
  • PRs
  • Note: we rolled back these changes due to unresolved problem in the auto repo. Neither of the original maintainers still works for Intuit, which makes resolving this type of issue tricky.
  • Thanks to Dominik Moritz for transitioning us over to release-it instead
• Fixed a medium severity XSS Security vulnerability in Vega release notes , communicated the vulnerability privately to commercial products that use Vega in customer-facing code with the Datadog security team

Community / Outreach

• Starting to help with StackOverflow questions (Vega/Vega-Lite)
• Presented about Vega-Lite to the NYC Data Visualization Meetup link and NYC Open Data Week link
• Help with triage and answering Github issues