data visualizations and representations

art, experiments, etc.




Weather Scenes

An interactive data visualization that takes a city from user-input and loads a corresponding weather scene using the temperature, conditions, and wind-speed. two view options reflect more and less abstracted representations.
2024

TouchDesigner
Python

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Speed Records on The Nose

An animated graphic of the history of speed climbing records on The Nose in Yosemite Valley. Made for my first project using Flourish. 
2025

Flourish


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Above the Clouds

A cartographic exploration into representations of vertical distance and space. The data represents the total vertical distance climbed at the New River Gorge National Park in 2024, as logged on 8a.nu. 
2025

ArcGIS
Houdini
Airtable
           
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Pittsburgh Viz - forthcoming

This is part of an ongoing series of exercises for my Fall 2025 Data Visualization course. The objective for this particular week was to experiment with interactivity, scope, and data joining. 
2025

Svelte
D3.js
HTML + CSS
           
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Mississippi Segregation Academies

Using ProPublica’s methods for studying segregation academies in Alabama, I found and mapped segregation academies in Mississippi and their nearby public counterparts. 
2024

DataWrapper

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Who is the Proper Soul?

A data project that investigates the historical pattern of rock climbers who’ve logged ascents of the route Proper Soul at the New River Gorge National Park.
2024

D3.js
Photoshop
Airtable

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UNC Sports History Sketch

A data sketch built in Figma that I created to prototype a UNC sports history dashboard. I hope to return to this project later this semester to build with D3.
2025

Figma


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Snowboarding Simulator

An interactive digital snowboarding experience controlled with the Adafruit Circuit Playground microcontroller. 
2024

TouchDesigner
CircuitPython
Adafruit Circuit Playground





Banana Phone

A physical-digital-physical experimental loop starting with a 3D model of a banana captured through photogrammetry, turned into a series of banana-phone shape grammars modeled in Houdini, and finally 3D printed and exhibited.
2024

photogrammetry (MetaShape)
Houdini
3D printing
Photoshop





Wild & Wonderful

A mixed media story about coal mining and outdoor recreation in West Virginia using archival and “found” footage, projection-mapped onto a 3D object as per class requirements.
2024

TouchDesigner







Climbing Exhibit

A 3D model and rendering of an imagined rock climbing exhibit. The model includes both public assets and objects I built in SketchUp. I would love to revisit this software for experiments in 3D reconstruction. 
2024

SketchUp
Adobe Substance Stager

















Intro Vid

An introductory video for the homepage of my blog, filmed on a Panasonic camcorder and edited to resemble the interface of said camcorder.














2024

Photoshop
Final Cut Pro








climbPraxis

Brand design for my climbing blog, climbPraxis, including a 3D climbing hold logo. 
2024

Photoshop
Final Cut Pro






The Boulder Garden: prow reset

An infographic I designed for The Boulder Garden, a rock climbing gym in Durham, North Carolina, to accompany an experimental routesetting design. 
2025

Photoshop