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RéciTAC

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I was approached by the Transforming Climate Action program, a team of researchers from four Canadian universities (Dalhousie University, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Université Laval, and Memorial University) working together to support just and equitable climate adaption, advance responsible marine carbon dioxide removal science and reduce critical uncertainty in the climate system. The team overseeing the massive project was looking for a visual way to show how the researchers were connected through collaborations across various projects. The resulting network is an inviting and playful way to encourage exploration and discovery of the people and projects within the program. Visitors can hover and click on nodes to discover details, filter by discipline or project, and more.

Visualizing the Top Contributor Network of Any GitHub Repo

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this blog I want to show you the design process that went into creating the “Top Contributor Network” visual. Showing the ecosystem and synergy of the other repositories the top contributors of any GitHub repository have worked on.

How it started from a simple network, and became it’s own thing. How it involved endless tweaking, and how it then all broke, before growing into its final form.

You can find the interactive visual here (ps: it’s not really meant for mobile screens) and you can find all of the code and documentation for the visual here.

The GitHub Top Contributor Network

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Through the Builders program (previously MIECO) of Mozilla, I collaborated with Adam Bouhenguel, to create an elaborate visualization that shows the top contributors of any GitHub repository and especially highlight those that have been awarded with ORCA. The Open Retrospective Compensation Agreement (ORCA), conceived by Adam, is a simple agreement for businesses to share revenue with the open source contributors who make that revenue possible. The network shows how top contributors to a certain repository are connected to the (other) repositories that they have made commits to, thereby showing how providing compensation to these contributors could have a ripple effect throughout the open source community.

Landscape of Power Flows

Mon, 05 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Swissgrid, the national transmission system operator in Switzerland, reached out to me because they wanted to explore an artistic way to visualize the data that is generated in their extra-high-voltage network of electrical grids. With over 60 million datapoints from the year 2019 it was quite a challenge to find the right balance of aggregating values while still showing as much detail as possible. The final result, called “Landscape of Power Flows”, became a giant work of 2m x 2.7m, printed on acrylic glass, and is now hanging in the lobby of Swissgrid’s main office in Aarau, where guests (and employees) can take in the whole visual, but also slowly explore the many details that reveal themselves the closer you get.

Why Do Cats and Dogs ...?

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In Why do cats & dogs …? the viewer can explore the most popular questions asked on Google that start with “why does/are/is my/a cat(s)/dog(s)”. What do people most want to know about these two pets? What “strange” behavior is asked so often that it appears to actually be quite normal behavior perhaps. What’s up with cats and cucumbers, while dogs have a fascination with poop. This dataviz-driven exploration takes you through the most interesting and funny insights found in the data in several highly interactive visuals that work well on both desktop and mobile sizes.

alis_ OS

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

alis_ was looking for a way to visualize the services running on their custom alis_ OS. To reveal if the OS was running well, which tasks were failing. But also to show the dependencies of services having created new services and so on. And to have a clear differentiation between their domains. Finally, the final visual was going to be used both for management and marketing purposes and thus had to be really effective, still look good, and on brand. After a longer design phase to investigate what forms revealed the insights, I developed a custom chart for them to implement as a prototype into their systems.

Intangible Cultural Heritage

Thu, 20 Dec 2018 11:15:47 +0100

Since 2003 UNESCO safeguards an ever growing list of our Intangible Cultural Heritage and these days there are almost 500 unique cultural elements inscribed on the list. Four interactive and unique visuals help people understand and discover their cultural heritage, and how this is connected to other cultures through connections such as regions, countries, World Heritage Sites and concepts such as Family, Trees, Dance, and more.

In March I was approached by UNESCO to help them visualize Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in such as way as to help people understand the connections that exist between them. They had already been creating the data set of connections in the year before that.

Culture Mapping

Wed, 19 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The client, scenarioDNA, has a (patented) data-driven method that addresses the study of people and their ideologies over time. The best way to understand where ideas are going is to see where they live in the context of near neighbors and contrasting ideologies. They had an existing interactive tool that let their users explore the data and insights. However, this tool was perceived as being too dense and complex to understand. ScenarioDNA asked me to create a new version that would hold true to their patented approach, encourage users to explore, and be understandable. I created a fully functional visual prototype, based on their Food & Beverage dataset, and design for the surrounding UX elements.

Beautiful in English

Wed, 24 May 2017 09:43:48 +0000

Beautiful in English let’s the viewer dive into the most popular words translated into English through Google Translate. It focuses specifically on nouns and adjectives. From the most translated word being beautiful, to the most translated word per language, the top 10 per language and finally the similarities between all languages. See which languages seem related through the words they both translate. But also how culture defines unique words, such a gentleman for the French.

Royal Constellations

Wed, 12 Oct 2016 22:19:30 +0000

Royal & aristocratic families are known for their fondness of marrying within their own clique. This leads to very interesting & entangled family trees which the Royal Constellations visual tries to convey. Dive into the web of family relations to see how all 10 of the current hereditary royal leaders of Europe can be connected to each other through their ancestors. By hovering and clicking on one of the 3000 stars, each of which represent a person, the web reveals aspects such as 6-degrees of separation and shortest paths between two people.