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The Economic Ripple Effect of Investing in Education

A couple of weeks ago, fellow interaction designer and data visualization enthusiast, Sera Koo and I worked together on a ...

Sep, 16

Infauxgraphics, Beware!

Like most people in the design community, I love infographics. Instead of having your eyes glaze over while looking at ...

Jun, 13

Catalyzing the Global Dialogue

“Catalyzing the Global Dialogue”, Winner of the World Economic Forum Data Visualization Challenge for Visualizing.org, November 2010. In collaboration with ...

Mar, 11

Does Temperature Affect Marathon Runners?

For our Information Visualization class, we were to visualize a section within the permanent collection at MoMA or the Metropolitan ...

Apr, 14

The Hamburg Cell

The Hamburg Cell, a group of radical Islamists, executed the 9/11 attacks under the guidance of Osama Bin Ladin, Atef, ...

Mar, 26

A Bus Heading Crosstown

Friday, 7:28PM This chart maps out 42nd street starting from 11th avenue to 1st avenue. The distances between each stop ...

Mar, 08

A Retake on Playfair

William Playfair (1759-1823) was a political economist and data visualizer in Britain who was “against the ‘ruinous folly’ of the ...

Jan, 21

@genelu

RT @atmasphere: Monitoring Your Health With Mobile Devices: http://t.co/9X2JJRge
Grats @recyclebank for making it onto Fast Company's top 50 most innovative companies! http://t.co/wOJDuSdJ

In 2009, I switched gears from corporate web design drone to full-time graduate student at SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design program. Currently, my interests on creating user engagement has spilled off the computer screen and into the environment and physical objects around us.

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