Karl Sluis

Data Visualization,
Product, and Leadership

Senior Product Designer on the Datadog Data Visualization team. Working with cross-functional teammates to enhance core app and map-based Datadog visualizations.

Find the best place to live with exclusive street and neighborhood metrics. Founder.

Choose Your Car with Confidence: helping people find the most reliable rides with better information at a lower price. Designed, researched, and built with Samir Rayani.

Popular print books with trusted recommendations at great prices. Designed, researched, and built with Samir Rayani.

Discover the fastest internet available at your new apartment or home. Google Chrome extension. Creator.

Delivering Pandora’s top songs, trending artists, and predicted stars to the music industry and Pandora listeners. >5,000 subscribers, over 50% of SAM. Product leader. Research, design, management, go-to-market, editor.

Core product designer and team leader at early-stage startup, exit to Pandora in 2015. Research, design, management, esprit de corps.

Employee #1 at Quovo, a financial account aggregation service acquired by Plaid in 2019. Designer-at-large.

Ask this single-page app what fruits and vegetables are in season. Creator.

Writing & Speaking about Leadership

Communication for Product Leaders; presented at ProductCon NYC 2018 to audience of +2,500 (talk begins at 2:26)

Twelve Communication Secrets for Product Leaders, Part 1 and Part 2

The Five Things Every Product Team Member Should Know

Masters of Product Management Podcast; appeared on Episode 034 to discuss communication and influencing teams

Product Team Context, presented at Product School NYC Meetup (Dec 2017), Product School Webinar (Feb 2018), Product School Meetup (Mar 2018)

Closing Keynote at Manifesto Conference, San Francisco 2015

Product Management panels, General Assembly, 2015, 2016

Writing about Cities

Lynchburg, Virginia: The Most Typical City in America

Information is Beautiful Awards Long List, Flowing Data, Market Watch, Newser, Inside Hook

Microdistricts of New York City

Brooklyn’s Best Neighborhood, by the Numbers

Escape From New York and San Francisco

Is Density Your Destiny?

America’s Most Bookish Cities

These 80 Cities Flipped for Trump

Yes, There Really Is A Kalamazoo, Michigan

How To Make $10,000 Without Even Trying

Writing about Data Visualization

Beyond Tufte, or, Nine Great Books About Data Visualization

Kottke.org

What I Wish I Knew About D3, presented at D3.js Meetup

Before Tufte, There Was Bertin

Writing about Mobility

Carpooling, Autonomy, and the Future

The U.S. is Going to Get Rid of 110 Million Cars. Here’s Why:

We’ll Always Have Hamtramck

The Twilight of the Sedans

Mobility’s Past is Prologue

Visualizations

karl.c.sluis at gmail dot com

Twitter @karlsluis

Karl Sluis 2022
Brooklyn, New York