Posts

Taking a Moment to Celebrate

I created a new system where I keep track of wins I get in life with paper stars. It is a way to remind me of my progress so far through physical data visualization.

Cataloguing My Family's History Through Food

How could I show recipes beyond the standard cookbook? What are some ways I could visualize data that could last for generations to come?

Building My Hugo Website as a Noob

With very little web development skills, I spent over 80 hours learning how to put my site together with Hugo and Netlify.

Teaching My First Data Visualization Workshop in Toronto

What it was like to create my first workshop and what I learned from the experience.

How Tekken Reinvented My Data Visualization Design Process

Engaging the community around this fighting game challenged me to rethink my approach to creating data visualizations.

Designing Data Visualizations with the Tekken Community

I opened my design process to hear feedback and suggestions from the public community on Reddit.

How Self-Employed Data Visualization Designers Make a Living

Interviewing RJ Andrews, Alli Torban, Matt Baker, and Ann K. Emery on how they started—and made—their careers in data visualization.

Data Visualization Style Guide: How I Learned to Design One

What’s a data visualization style guide? Why and when is it needed? How do we create one? I initiated a project to better understand them by designing one for Slack.

How I Quit My Full-Time Job to Pursue a Freelance Career As a Data Visualization Designer

It’s been four months since I quit my full-time job to pursue a career in data visualization (data viz) design. I thought I’d talk about what I’ve learned thus far so that others might learn something from my journey.