Creative Lead, driving digital and data-driven experiences.

Recognition

Some selected accolades, including press, talks, exhibits, and publications.

Press

2022: Visme.co: 15 Data Visualization Examples to Inspire You

2021: Flowing Data: Census Mapper, a tool to visualize population and racial shifts.

2016: Flowing Data: Make your own tiled cartograms

2014: CommArts Feature: In Oakland, California, this nimble data visualization firm creates art out of statistics.

2013: FastCo: Every Known Casualty from our Drone Strikes in Pakistan

2013: Washington Post: Drone-kill map aims to ‘shock people’ on U.S. policy

2013: Flowing Data: Every known Drone Attack in Pakistan

2013: Drone war: every attack in Pakistan visualised, The Guardian

2012: Flowing Data: Towards a Low-Carbon World

Talks

2021: Data Visualization and the Truth with Wes Grubbs: Can’t Sell This (Podcast)

2018: The Importance of Failing Successfully, Beyond Tellerrand (Duesseldorf, Germany)

2016: Keynote Talk on Dissidence and Data, Visualized (New York, New York)

2016: Eyeo Festival: Data on the Road (Minneapolis, MN)

2015: Storytelling with Data, Creative Mornings (Oakland, California)

2015: Visualizing Drone Strikes: Visualized (New York, New York)

2012: Art + Tech Festival, Codame (San Francisco, California)

2012: Generative Cognition and Data, Beyond Tellerrand (Cologne, Germany)

2011: Beyond the Bargraph, Eyeo Festival (Minnapolis, MN)

Exhibits

2016: Take this Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Franciscso, California)

2014: Synaptic Motion, Capacitor performing arts (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California)

2013: Art by Code, Codame (San Francisco, California)

2011: Talk To Me exhibit (MoMA, NYC)

2011: Gene Davis Renditions (MMOCA, Madison, Wisconsin)

2009: Max Planck Institute “Science Express” train exhibit (Germany, China)

Publications

2017: The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge

2013: Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information

2010: Data Flow 2: Visualizing Information in Graphic Design

2008: Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design