Alexander Spangher
Data Visualization Portfolio
I love visualizing data using D3 and Javascript. Finding creative ways to bring time-dependent choropleths to life is what gets me most excited. Below is a sample of both published and unpublished visualization work. (For more about me, see here.)
Election 2016 Times Datelines
A D3/Photoshop visualization of all the datelines filed by 6 New York Times political reporters in The Times over the course of the 2016 Presidential Election..
Published in The New York Times: 19 Countries, 43 States, 327 Cities: Mapping The Times’s Election Coverage.
Paris Map:
A D3 visualization of dateline counts for articles published in The New York Times in the 48 hours after the 2016 Paris attacks.
Published in CJR: What the Paris attacks tell us about how foreign news gets made
Columbia Library Map:
A D3 visualization of student ID-card swipe-ins to Columbia Libraries throughout the day. Data derived from total daily counts averaged over the year. (Heatmap represents percent of peak swipe-ins for each library.)
Published in Columbia Spectator here: Plan your library visit (and never camp out again) with our handy interactive map
. NOTE: Links in the Spectator piece are down following reformatting.(Draft) Bangladesh Climate Migration Map (Scroller):
A D3 Scroller accompanying a story about climate-induced migration in Bangladesh. Story by Casey Williams, graphic by me. See full-size rendering here, and another rough graphic for the story here. Data retrieved from Bangladesh government satellite records.
100 Years of Pulitzer Data (Multi-level Stepper):
A D3 stepper visualizing demographic and topic tags for each Pulitzer Prizes awarded over the hundred-year period 1916-2016.
Published in CJR here: Eye on the Prize.
Contact Information:
The best place to reach me is: spangher@usc.edu. My personal email address is alexander.spangher@gmail.com.