Data Visualization Lab
Experiments in seeing data clearly.
Working sketches and one-off explorations. Each one starts with a question and ends as a visual you can interact with.
3D
Drone Head
Your face as a thousand points of light
A drone light show built from one webcam frame. MediaPipe reads 478 face landmarks, densified to 1000 points, and three.js renders them as lights that assemble into your face then drift, twinkle, and rotate.
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3D
Talking Head
A thousand lights that talk back
Type a topic and a generic glowing face speaks an LLM-written line, with the mouth lights shaping to the words as your browser reads them aloud. Built from the MediaPipe canonical mesh, no camera needed, nothing to download.
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Diagrams
LinkedIn Cartography
Visualize your LinkedIn network
As I meet new people I wonder what the crossover is. I wanted to know more than mutual connections but how I knew them and where our networks may have cross paths. I wanted to examine this.
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Radar
City DNA
What does your city optimize for?
Every city makes tradeoffs. Some optimize for walkability, others for outdoor access or cultural density. This radar chart plots 20 US cities across 8 dimensions so you can see those tradeoffs at a glance.
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Security
OpenSentry
Security advisories for distributed teams
Public threat data and an AI summarization layer turned into security advisories built for distributed teams. The premise is that a small team across multiple timezones can't read every threat feed, but they can read one prioritized brief. OpenSentry is that brief.
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Generative
Lightform
Abstract shapes revealed by flowing light
The light-veil engine used as a stencil. A wall of drifting halftone dots is clipped to a feathered mask, so a coffee cup, a block diagram, a bulb, or a signal wave emerges only where the light flows through, shimmering as the wind sweeps across it. Switch the form on the fly.
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Generative
Lightwall
A wall of light that breathes
Twenty-five thousand stationary hex lights on a black field. Nothing moves except brightness, sweeping across the wall like wind, colored by a slow-drifting hue field. A live bench with ten sliders sits behind the C key. Inspired by the Target Field wind veil.
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Space
Light Echo
How far a life's last light has traveled
Enter a date and watch the radiant energy of that moment expand outward at the speed of light, sweeping past the planets, both Voyagers, the Oort cloud, and the nearest stars until it reaches where it is now. One light-year for every year. Inspired by an idea from Neil deGrasse Tyson.
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Space
Rest in Space
Every spacecraft we've launched and where it ended up
An animated isometric timeline of the full fleet — crashed into planets, drifting dead in solar orbit, still leaving the solar system — plus the unbroken thread of human presence since November 2000. Scrub 1957 to now.
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Maps
Rendezvous
Find a fair place to meet in the middle
Two people, two starting points, one map. Drop pins or search areas, pick coffee shop or restaurant and when it has to be open, and get a ranked list of spots in the middle zone scored on balanced travel time for both of you.
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AI
Shoebox
A full ecommerce prototype built in an afternoon
Built for a client demo to show how AI compresses the gap between concept and clickable experience. Product browsing, cart, checkout, and user profiles — generated entirely in Figma Make, then ported to Vite and self-hosted here.
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Games
2048 Coach
Learn the patterns behind the mythic square
Plain 2048 with swipe and arrow keys, plus a coach that wakes up when the board gets tight. It names the pattern in front of you, hold the corner, free move, spawn trap, says which way to go, and tells you afterward if you missed it. Five drills set up the positions that decide games.
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Sports
Knockout Planner
Your survivor pick, and where the pool sits
Opens on this week. The teams worth picking with the odds out front, what the rest of your pool is on, and a season strip showing what you have already spent. Odds come from posted lines where books have them and an Elo model everywhere else. The full 18 week grid and the solver sit one screen deeper.
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