my dataviz sketchbook

I’m a total data dork! Nothing feels more harmonious than data visualized clearly—with simplicity, transparency, an embedded story. Here I collect some of my data viz sketches.

 

Repro

before_enrollment_AmericanEd-1970s.jpg

“This may well be the worst graphic ever to find its way into print.”
Edward Tufte

American Education, c. 1970s.

 
 
by-the-numbers_old.jpg

A mess!

No vertical scale…
Zero values plotted with non-zero height…
Lack of contrast…
Serif-laden labels…

 
gdp_cap_old.png

Thesis-less and de-contextualized.

 

Developed during Yale University course F&ES 603: Environmental Data Visualization & Communication. Spring 2019. Professors Jenn Marlon and Simon Queenborough.

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