Ciara Byrne

Lapsed software developer, current tech journalist and wannabe data scientist, Ciara started her career in Machine Learning research, was a startup CTO and a product manager.

Her writing has appeared in Fast Company, Forbes, MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, O’ Reilly Radar and The New York Times Digital. In 2014, she was shortlisted for the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship At MIT and was selected to be BlueRidge Labs @ Robin Hood foundation building apps for low-income Americans. She is the founder MadeVivid, a content agency for tech and science companies.

Fast Company • 29th January 2014

Inside The Ad-Free, Crowdfunded Publication That Is Upending The Newspaper Business

Can two disgruntled newspaper editors and a crowdfunding campaign prove news can be a real business?

Fast Company • 26th July 2013

Top 10 Iconic Data Graphics

Photography has yielded many iconic images, but what are the most iconic data graphics? FastCoLabs asked the authors of some of the web’s top visualization blogs to tell us their...

Fast Company • 13th May 2013

Scoops and Software: How The New York Times Tells Stories With Data

Embedded in the heart of the New York Times, Aron Pilhofer runs an experimental news team made up of veteran journalists and top-notch computer scientists. Their job is to tell...