"The Data Viz That’s Helping Transform A $45 Billion Company"
Fast Company features our work for Deutsche Bahn, describing it as "Not only is it pretty to look at, but it’s affecting change in ways that are easy to measure, but also profound."
In the Media
My work and perspective have been featured by Bloomberg, Fast Company, WIRED, the BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle and Der Spiegel, and in books from TASCHEN, Thames & Hudson and O’Reilly.
Featured
Play videoExplore Explain S6E8 with Enrico Bertini
Together with Enrico Bertini, I appeared in a special two-part episode of Andy Kirk's Explore Explain series. We each shared five significant visualization-related works by others that have most influenced our thinking about data visualization, plus a selection from our own work that has been significant to our careers. Watch part 1 and part 2.
INGRAPHICS contribution
INGRAPHICS is a „magazine for visual thinkers“ — and I was kindly invited to contribute a double spread.
I created a visual overview of the long history of Elon Musk‘s not-quite-materialized predictions on autonomous cars.
The magazine is full of stunning visuals, and completely self financed. Grab a copy — it’s worth it!
Play videoPolicyViz Podcast Episode #278
Jon Schwabish and I chat about my work and I reflect on my journey in the field — the Data Stories podcast, my shift from bespoke data visualization projects to scalable design systems, and collaborations with organizations like the World Health Organization.
Design und Künstliche Intelligenz
My work on Einstein Designer was featured in a full book chapter for the German language book "Design und Künstliche Intelligenz", covering the relationship of design and artificial intelligence.
The Data Wranglers: Data with a Purpose
I joined Jeffrey Heer and Adam Wilson on The Data Wranglers podcast to discuss how I create a character from a dataset to give it emotional meaning. We talked about my work on the German Covid-19 vaccine dashboard, visualizing train traffic for Deutsche Bahn, and 175 years of text from Scientific American.
The rise of the pandemic dashboard
Bloomberg features the official German COVID-19 vaccination dashboard in a feature on why every government needs a pandemic dashboard.
HeadsOfData / d:u Podcast
German-language podcast episode on becoming an independent "Truth & Beauty Operator", the importance of data visualization in data value creation, and the relationship between data literacy and data visualization.
Play videoInterview on Andy Kirk's Explore Explain
It was an honour to be featured in Andy Kirk's series "Explore Explain". Together with Scientific American's art director Jen Christiansen, we tell the story how our visualization project of word trends in the rich 175 year history of the magazine came about.
Humanities, Arts and Society Magazine features Multiplicity
"Humanities, Arts and Society Magazine" features the Multiplicity project.
Graphic Hunters interview
A longer-form interview with Graphic Hunters about my work and philosophy — covering what makes data visualization easy to learn but hard to master, and why "good data visualizations tell a story, but really great ones tell a thousand stories — but not all at once."
Food & Drink Infographics
"Food & Drink Infographics" (TASCHEN, Simone Klabin, ed. Julius Wiedemann) features my Muesli Ingredient Network.
Google News Lab interview on Wahl 2Q17
Isa Sonnenfeld from Google News Lab interviewed me about our visualization of Google Trends data around the German federal election — how we turned search interest into a rich, explorable portrait of the campaign, and what we learned along the way.
New culinary trend: Data Cuisine
Deutsche Welle reports on Data Cuisine, the edible approach to data visualization.
The data visualisation artist playing with the future
Huck Magazine interviews me about my work, including Project Ukko.
Landscape Architecture Frontiers
On Broadway was featured in the leading Chinese journal Landscape Architecture Frontiers.
Raw Data — Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks
The design sketches for the OECD Better Life Index are featured in Best Raw Data — Infographic Designers' Sketchbooks, a great collection of design sketches from a variety of information designers.
Best American Infographics 2014
Where the Wild Bees are is featured in Best American Infographics 2014. Thanks to Jen Christiansen and Jillian Walters for the great collaboration!
NOVUM feature
Thanks to premiere graphic design magazine NOVUM for featuring me and my work!
These Weird Meals Are Actually Clever Data Visualizations
WIRED covers Data Cuisine, our project using food as a medium for data expression.
La Lettura
"The city is alive" — interview with Sandra Rendgen
Sandra Rendgen interviewed me about my work at the intersection of data visualization and urban data — how I came to the field with a background in cognitive science and interface design, and my efforts to create a comprehensible visual vocabulary for mapping complex data.
WEAVE magazine cover
The functional art
Substratum
Thanks to the fine folks at Substratum for interviewing me.