I am a journalist, author and musician who explores novel and diverse ways of communicating data.
I co-create artworks that represent data through sound, images and sculpture. These have been exhibited at museums and galleries internationally.
I am the co-founder, with Duncan Geere, of the Loud Numbers data sonification studio. Loud Numbers started in 2021 as a podcast – each episode transforms a data story into a piece of music.
My first book, I am a book. I am a portal to the universe., co-authored with Stefanie Posavec, won the Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize 2021 and an Information is Beautiful Award 2022.
Direct: BBC, Beyond Words Studio, British Council, Corriere della Serra, General Medical Council, informationisbeautiful.net, New York Times, Quartz, Signal Noise / The Economist, Wired UK
Studio: AT&T, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, European Lung Foundation, MacMillan Cancer, Dell, RSPCA, SAP, Siemens, Sprint, WE Communications
Art commissions: National Maritime Museum, Life of Breath project, Open Data Institute, Southbank Centre, Wellcome Collection
Artworks exhibited at: Royal College of Physicians, Sheffield Institute of Arts, Somerset House London, Southbank Centre London, Spektrum Berlin, Wild Mazzini (Turin)
Information is Beautiful Awards, 2017: Silver award in Arts category for Oddityviz
Encode, London, September 2019
DataFest Tbilisi, Georgia, November 2017
Visualising Data London, March 2017
Data Visualization Berlin meetup, November 2015
VISUALIZEDio, November 2014, London: panel discussion
One Health summer school, University of Bern, Switzerland, Aug 2019: data visualisation workshop leader
DataFest Tbilisi, Georgia, November 2017: workshop leader
V&A, London, Jun 2017: data jewellery workshop leader
London South Bank University, Feb-March 2017: visiting lecturer, Digital Journalism course
Data4Change, Beirut, November 2016: workshop participant
Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria, 2016 and 2017: visiting lecturer / course leader
School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe, November 2015, Berlin: workshop instructor
Initial concepts: working with you to develop creative briefs suitable for graphic presentation
Research and data gathering
Data analysis and exploratory plots (R, spreadsheets)
Copywriting and storytelling
Design / build: you'll need a designer or developer for that
Available on request - email me with a brief description of your project
I came into information graphics via music. I have a PhD in musicology from King's College London, with a thesis on performance style in recordings of the works of Anton Webern. My research involved analysing data from sound recordings and using software to visualise the results, which sparked my interest in data visualisation.
I began working as a researcher for Information is Beautiful in 2011, where I was lead researcher on David McCandless’s book ‘Knowledge is Beautiful.’
2011-present: Research for information graphics. Based in Devon and London, UK.
2006-2010: PhD in Musicology, King's College London. Thesis title: 'Performing Modernism: Webern on Record'
2005-2006: MMus in Musicology, King's College London. Pass with distinction.
2000-2004: BA in Music, Christ Church, Oxford University. 2:1.