Press | Matthew Conlen (mathisonian)

Matthew Conlen is a data journalist and human-computer interaction researcher. He currently serves as the head of product and design at Our World in Data.

Matthew received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington where he was advised by Jeffrey Heer in the Interactive Data Lab.

Press coverage of projects that I helped create.

2019

Simulating university life: from feast to famine— Wonkhe
The secret life of a JPEG— Fast Company
Viaje interactivo a las entrañas de un archivo JPEG con explicaciones detalladas byte a byte— microsiervos
10 Significant Visualization Developments: July to December 2018— Visualizing Data

2018

Designers, Programmers, and Researchers Join Forces to Create a New Kind of Digital Magazine Called the Parametric Press— Georgia Tech CSE
Kernel density estimation explainer— FlowingData
Forecasting the midterms: Uncertainty with a chance of finger-pointing— Columbia Journalism Review
Best of the Visualization Web, October 2018— Visualizing Data
Idyll-lang: Make your app stand out with interactive data-driven stories— The Startup | Medium
Best of the Visualization Web, June 2018— Visualizing Data
ギターを耳でチューニングする方法がわかる「How To: Tune a Guitar」— GIGAZINE (english)
A beautiful and interactive guide that will teach you how to tune a guitar.— Codrops: Collective

2017

Best of the Visualization Web, October 2017— Visualizing Data
Idyll - Narratives for the web - Interview with Matthew Conlen— SurviveJS

2016

Could ‘explorable explanations’ help tell a new kind of story?— Columbia Journalism Review
premonish: Predicts Which DOM Element A User Will Interact With Next— JavaScript Weekly
Winning Data Visualizations Reveal Information Is Beautiful— Live Science
FiveThirtyEight breaks down the more than 33,000 annual U.S. gun deaths— The Undefeated
History of Sumo charted— Flowing Data
Here’s who would be president if Facebook likes counted as votes— Mashable

2015

‘Under Construction Since 1996’: Rhizome’s Newly Remodeled Website Debuts— Art News
Criminal sentencing and a stat lesson on probabilities and uncertainty— Flowing Data
Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Investigator Co-Organizes CodeNeuro Event— Simons Foundation

2014

FiveThirtyEight Launches, Unveils March Madness Predictions— U.S. News & World Report
Everything you’ve heard about millennials is wrong— Salon

2012

Huffington Post Now Has Its Own “Labs” Site For Online News Experiments— Tech Crunch
How People in Brooklyn "Dual-Screened" the Vice Presidential Debate— Tech President

2011

Meet The Winners Of Art Hack Weekend— Vice