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With reporters Jeremy B. Merrill and Leslie Shapiro, I built an interactive that maps 121,000 TikTok videos to show how the platform's recommendation algorithm clusters content by user behavior. Readers could explore the map by interest category and look up any hashtag's nearest neighbors and opposites.

Built an animated rabbit hole sequence with illustrations by Dani Choi to open the story, and designed an interactive explanation showing how skipping or watching videos shifts your TikTok feed over time.

With cartographer Dylan Moriarty, I built a playable mini-golf game that teaches readers how partisan gerrymandering works — each hole is a real district map. Built using canvas, matter.js for physics simulation and svg for object boundaries.

I created the data maps for this Margaret Sullivan essay on the local news crisis, visualizing the collapse of U.S. print newspapers between 2005 and 2020 and mapping which counties were left with no newspapers.

To provide some needed counter-programming amid all the political news, Lauren Tierney and I made this story about something everybody likes: fall. I took the lead on the forest type map and the leaf illustrations.

My colleagues and I created 3-D models of historic and future space suits using photogrammetry, then displayed them with commentary from the Post's space reporter and fashion critic. I built the interactive experience and performed two of the photogrammetry shoots.

To take readers inside the newly renovated dinosaur hall at the National Museum of Natural History, I built a scroll-driven video tour as the intro of this story. I also prepared the embedded 3-D skeleton model.

This breaking news map was a one-day Mapbox project to explain the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka.

Rather than simply showing the number of redactions, we analyzed the Mueller report and added context to give some idea of what the redactions were about.

A months-long project, I was involved in capturing the drone imagery, creating the petroglyph panorama, web development, reporting and writing this story about cultural and archaeological sites in the former Bears Ears National Monument.

We published an analysis of precinct-level results and analysis very quickly after the 2018 midterm election thanks to a lot of prep work, including my data processing setup for all the House districts we were interested in. I worked the overnight shift to process results as they came in.

This 3-D scroll-driven map was a really fun project to work on. The basic framework of a slippy 3-D tiled map was built when I joined the project, but I wrote a lot of the interaction, motion and rendering code and took over the project as the lead developer partway through.

All thanks to Adam Pearce for this great tutorial, which was helpful despite the unique wrinkles I ran into while building this rainfall map on a very tight deadline. It updated live as the hurricane passed through.

Gabriel Florit and I created these 3-D home run arc plots in Blender. It was a fun exercise and we made animated versions for social media that I tweeted during the Derby.

Using a 3-D model of Dodger Stadium and sun position math, I simulated the shadows throughout the season to help fans pick a seat that wouldn't be uncomfortable in the Los Angeles summer. I also wrote an explainer post.

I built a 3-D model to tell the story the largest wildfire in California history. The project used satellite imagery and three.js to create an immersive experience.

We used satellite imagery to determine which buildings had been destroyed the Thomas fire.

This scatter plot was made with the vector mapping library Tangram — a quick way to render a large number of data points.

Using Landsat imagery, I showed how fire-stricken regions of California had started the year lush and green but dried out by the autumn.

We used data analysis to come up with strategies for riding the best rides at Disneyland without waiting forever in line, then went to Disneyland and tested them out. I created CSS-only charts for each ride using Django templating.

For this project, I created a 3-D model of Griffith Park using USGS and NOAA data and animated it to show the mountain lion's movement throughout the story.

Months of data collection went into this project, which was the most comprehensive election results map available for California after the November 2016 election.

This 3-D visualization of a network of political donors in Los Angeles was part of a Loeb Award-winning package.

I wanted to show what it's like for a batter to face one of baseball's greatest pitchers, so I created a 3-D visualization of real Clayton Kershaw pitches from the first half of the 2016 season.

We plotted every shot Kobe Bryant took from the floor in his 20 years in the NBA. Some of this project's code is on GitHub.

I made a 3-D simulation of the way the calendar year lags behind the Earth's orbit of the sun as part of this explainer on leap years.

A simulation game that lets you put historical NFL Rams teams head-to-head. Plus a mathy explainer!