Matthew Conlen is a human-computer interaction researcher working at Midjourney. He is the creator of Realtime, an automated data-journalism platform, and Idyll, a markup language for writing interactive multimedia documents.
Matthew has previously worked with The New York Times, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Our World in Data, FiveThirtyEight, and others. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington where he was advised by Jeffrey Heer in the Interactive Data Lab.
Matthew has previously worked with The New York Times, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Our World in Data, FiveThirtyEight, and others. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington where he was advised by Jeffrey Heer in the Interactive Data Lab.
Featured Project
Idyll: Interactive Document Language
Idyll is a tool that makes it easier to author explorable explanations for the web. The goal of the project is to provide a friendly markup language — and an associated toolchain — that can be used to create dynamic, data-driven web pages. Learn more.