Early Work at Fathom

National Geographic

What the World Eats

A graphic from the "What the World Eats" series on Twitter held users' attention for an average of 8 minutes.

Nike

Nike Weather

Using activity data, we mapped how people move differently across weather conditions and cities.

Design lead James Grady

Year in Nikefuel

Every person has a unique movement pattern. I wrote code to visualize this diversity, pitched it to Nike, and they shared it with their NikeFuel community.

Google

Fathom Watch Faces

Google invited Fathom to be featured in their watch face design experiments. James and I designed 3 watch faces that responded to a user's movement, daily activity, and view count.

Co-designed with James Grady

City of Boston

Urban Agriculture

I mapped Boston's urban agriculture landscape—community gardens, farms, and food access points—to help the city understand their distribution.

Illustrations by Rachel Harris

The Clinton Foundation

No Ceilings

Over six months, we explored the story of what governments value through the data they collect on gender equality worldwide.

Design lead James Grady

World Color Survey

Colorful Language

The World Color Survey gathered data from 2,696 native speakers of 110 languages, asking each participant to identify 330 different colors.

I wrote Processing code to read the survey data and try different groupings. The sketches became the final piece: blocks for each language radiating from center, ordered from most to least used term.

Mixing colors programmatically resulted in muddy hues, but relying on our own eyes produced satisfying, textured visualizations.

Comparing like colors across languages.

Poster visualization explorations.

This is how the survey tool looked and functioned.

Photo Credit: Thomas Headland