Charts you can walk into, and the plumbing behind them.
My weeks split between two rooms that share almost nothing. In one I draw news and development data into things a reader can move through; in the other I build the systems behind the curtain — architectures, services, the event-driven plumbing — so the tedious parts look after themselves. Fifteen years of liking both, and I still couldn't tell you which one is the hobby.
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Selected work
About
The larger share of my work is interactive data visualisation — the Digital News Report built for the Reuters Institute, Covid-19 across the four UK nations for the BMJ, the UNDP's signals mapped for Spotlight, every UK parliament rendered a seat at a time for the Institute for Government. Along the way I collaborate with Gauge and Datamake.
The rest is software systems — architectures, services, event-driven back-ends that keep products running without ceremony. With Gauge that meant building systems like anchorbox and sandbox among many other projects. Some of it sits on SAP's Business Technology Platform, where I build platform apps with Intentum — most recently leading development for Yancoal Australia.
Before all this: PeopleSoft modules, a co-founded healthcare studio, visualisation add-ons for BusinessObjects, analytics dashboards for Unravel. Fifteen years of travelling through various paths, on purpose.
What I do
Crafting interfaces and software systems.