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WNYC Sleep App visit

for: New York Public Radio
when: April 2014
type: mobile app
tools: html javascript css phonegap

I built the WNYC Sleep app, a simple app for recording data about your previous night's sleep, for WNYC's two-month investigation into New Yorker's sleep and sleep habits. Around 2,000 people used the app every night to track their sleep and report it back to us.

WNYC App visit

for: New York Public Radio
when: October 2013
type: mobile app
tools: html javascript css phonegap

I was a primary developer and sometimes designer working on the re-launched app for WNYC, New York's principal public radio station.

Half in Ten Indicators

for: Center for American Progress
when: November 2011
types: interactive website
tools: html javascript jquery raphael d3 css

Half in Ten's "Restoring Shared Prosperity" project aggregates key statistics relating to poverty. It was designed to go along with an annual series of reports (of the same name) and is meant to show data over the course of a decade. (The indicators project has been redesigned since.)

CAP Timeline Tool visit

for: Center for American Progress
when: April 2011
type: interactive
tools: html jquery javascript css

CAP needed a simple tool for showing timelines of events. This version is implemented as a jQuery plugin, which assembles a list of content already on the page (or from a json file).

Foreign Aid Map visit

for: Center for American Progress
when: February 2011
type: interactive
tools: html javascript css dojo

A custom-made interactive map, designed to show how the US distributes foreign aid money. At the time this was created, more modern solutions (kartograph.js, d3.geo) didn't exist, so this is entirely custom-built using dojo's graphics library.

Half in Ten

for: Half in Ten/Center for American Progress
when: September 2010
type: website
tools: html javascript php css expression engine

CAP's Half in Ten Project outgrew its original website, and needed a new site that emphasized its state partner organizations, regular petitions and calls to action, and deeper reporting (like the indicators project, above). (The site has been re-designed since.)

British Election Vote Map visit

when: May 2010
type: infographic
tools: illustrator nodebox

A sort of pie chart showing how little the Parliament Britons elected in 2010 resembled how they voted.

The Revolving Door of Kyrgyz Politics visit

when: March 2010
type: infographic
tool: illustrator

A timeline showing how key players flowed through a succession of Kyrgyz governments. Inspired by Eric McGlinchey's New York Times article, Running Circles in Kyrgyzstan.

Budget Explorer visit

for: Center for American Progress
when: March 2010
types: interactive infographic
tools: flash actionscript

While Congress was negotiating the 2010 federal budget, Republicans insisted on making deep cuts to "non-defense discretionary" spending. We wanted a way to show how small a portion of the budget this was, so I created what I dubbed the "flying pie chart".

Pakistan Airstrikes Map visit

for: Center for American Progress
when: March 2009
types: interactive infographic map
tools: flash actionscript

The map was designed to catalog airstrikes being made by the CIA over northwestern Pakistan. Initially, bombings were few and far between, but at the end of the Bush administration, the airstrikes accelerated. (No longer available.)