Data Sketches: a year of exotic data visualizations
summary
Data Sketches is a year‑long collaboration with Shirley Wu that produces one elaborate visualization per month, documented with process writeups. Concrete wins: a browser piece encoding 5,000 medals by sport, year and continent; a Dragon Ball Z chart of ~200 fights connected by custom curved links; a manually compiled set of 87 butterfly species driving generative motion. Tool lessons include heavy use of D3 and R, writing custom SVG paths, and moving many layout calculations into pre-calculated visual variables for performance and clarity.
AI-written summary · about
chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:12Background
- 2:52Data
- 12:23Sketches
- 17:05Travel
- 19:58Sketching
- 23:25Movies
- 31:39Math
- 35:06Nature
- 37:24Collaboration
- 38:56Personal projects
related talks
43mData Sketches | A year of exotic data visualizations
42mData Sketches: A Year of Exotic Data Visualisations
31mdata sketch|es: A Visualization a Month
30mdata sketch|es: a year of exotic data visualizations
47mData, Design, Code
05mThe Art of Data Visualization
21mVisualising Enterprise Data with D3
15mThe Future of Data Visualization on the Web