Presentation on Visual Cinnamon

The Amsterdam Startup Landscape

Tue, 25 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ACE was preparing for the soft launch of their rebrand to Cæmpus. They tasked me with analyzing data from the past decade (and beyond), during which they supported academic entrepreneurs in starting and growing their companies. My goal was to identify trends and interesting patterns that could be shared with the audience at the event. Additionally, during the event we highlighted the gaps in the existing data, emphasizing the importance of contributions from the community to ensure that future entrepreneurs can benefit from the collective experience.

A talk on lessons learned from data sketches

Sat, 14 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A blog about the new solo talk I’ve created recently that revolves all around Data Sketches, the dataviz collaboration I’m (still) doing together with Shirley Wu. In this talk I (but also we) discuss the lessons that we’ve already learned from doing 10 months of creating an elaborate data visualization a month.

Hacking the Visual Norm

Sat, 18 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000

I created the Hacking the Visual Norm talk for the Fronteers Conference, held in Amsterdam on October 6 & 7th 2016. During the talk I try to show several ways that you can go beyond the norm in the visualization of data. I use examples from both a business environment (things I made for Adyen or Deloitte) and personal projects. It revolves around Combining, Re-using, Designing & Hacking your visuals into something more effective and engaging.

Visualizing the “Beauty of Math” in 3 minutes

Fri, 09 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0000

A very short blog where you can find the slides and video of the 3-minute elevator pitch I gave at the Reasons to conference in Brighton, UK on Wednesday September 7th 2016. And as a bonus some images of things that didn’t make it!

SVGs beyond mere shapes

Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

You’ve come to the blog that is the written companion to my talk called SVGs beyond mere shapes. SVG can do much more than create nice shapes and paths. In my talk I discuss several techniques and demonstrate how to implement them in D3: from dynamic gradients based on data, to SVG filters, to creating glow, gooey, and fuzzy effects that brighten up any visual.