I combine reporting, data analysis, and design to create interactive graphics and scrollytelling experiences.
A data-driven investigation into how U.S. banks' 2020 racial-equity pledges quietly receded, combining 15M HMDA records, annual reports, and policy shifts to reveal persistent mortgage approval gaps. Regression • Data Cleaning • R • Python • Policy Analysis • Illustrator • Writing • Scrollytelling
An immersive visual investigation into the billion-dollar blind box craze, revealing how dopamine-driven collecting culture fuels waste, gambling-like behaviour, and throwaway consumerism through data, probability modelling, and interactive storytelling.
Published: The Straits Times
Journalist • Creative Direction • Design • Project Management • Data Reporting • Writing
A visual explainer on Singapore’s evolving payment habits, showing how digital convenience, rewards ecosystems, and lingering cash culture shape the way people spend across transport, hawker centres, groceries, and online life.
Published: The Straits Times
Duration: Two weeks
Designer • Data Visualisation • UI Layout
Visual timeline and diagrams breaking down Vietnam's largest bank fraud. Investigated how $44B vanished through fake loans and shell firms.
Duration: Two weeks
Storytelling • Illustration • Financial Analysis • Research • Editorial Design
Interactive precinct-level map showing certified first-round results of the Democratic primary's ranked-choice vote, with detailed breakdowns by neighborhood and candidate performance.
Duration: Two weeks
Interactive Mapping • Election Data • D3.js • Geospatial Analysis • Data Visualization • Mobile friendly
Mapped the aesthetics and urban logic of 5,000+ cafés across 90 cities using AI vision, geospatial joins, and regression.
Duration: Three weeks
Scraping • OCR • AI Captioning • Regression • Mapping • Design
Explored cultural bias in planetary naming. Scraped crater names, traced gender/ethnicity, and visualized global artistic legacy in space.
Duration: One week
Scraping • Data Cleaning • Google Sheets • Illustrator • Writing
Mapped 4,500+ collisions across Upper Manhattan using NYC Open Data and interviewed AI researchers on tech-led traffic safety.
Duration: Two weeks
Investigative Reporting • Open Data • Geospatial Analysis • Interviewing • Urban Infrastructure
Even as banks made racial equity pledges after George Floyd's murder, our analysis of 15 million mortgage applications shows that political shifts, anti-DEI laws, and the rollback of legal tools like disparate impact threaten to quietly entrench racial disparities in home lending.
On going project
Regression • Data Cleaning • R • Python • Interview • Illustrator • Writing
Tested 5 AI companionship apps against suicide response standards; uncovered major safety failures and ethical blind spots.
Duration: One month
Research • Rubric building • Testing Framework • Policy Reporting • Sentiment Analysis • Editorial Writing
Analyzed 2,000+ human and AI-generated captions using embeddings, clustering, and humor trait labeling to decode what makes jokes work.
Duration: Ongoing
NLP • Clustering • Zero-shot Classification • Humor Theory • D3.js • Scrollytelling
Built a React timeline exploring 300+ conflicts to test whether peace treaties actually end war.
Duration: Two weeks
Data Analysis • React • Tailwind • UCDP • Visual Design • Writing
Mapped 3,000+ public Wi-Fi hotspots across NYC using cleaned open data and interactive search powered by Leaflet.js.
Duration: One week
Data Cleaning • Leaflet.js • JavaScript • HTML/CSS • Front-End Mapping • Open Data
Built a Flask app that scrapes, parses, and centralizes 200+ PDF minutes from NYC community boards to support local journalism.
Duration: Ongoing
Web Scraping • PDF Parsing • Flask • pdfplumber • HTML/CSS • Civic Data • Automation
From AI to policy to food, data visualization, UI, and editorial design.
Duration: Five years
Skills: Adobe Package (Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro, After Effects), Flourish, Adobe XD, Figma, Inkscape, Excel, and visual storytelling.
Collaboration with Abbey Wang. 'Inspire' is a tablet app designed to bridge the gap between a user's goal of becoming a designer and their current skill level. Connect students to mentors, activities, and design disciplines.
Adobe Creative Jam Top 10% projects 2020 (Worldwide) Duration: 2 days
UX/UI Design • Mobile App Design • Wireframing • Design Systems • User Research • Prototyping • Adobe XD
Role: Designer
Revamped website and launched comprehensive infographics summary design system for economic forecasts, fiscal overviews, and tax analysis. System still in use today across all publications and social media.
Duration: October 2021 - June 2022
Web Accessibility • Design Systems • Infographics • Social Media Templates • Economic Data Visualization
Role: Designer
Shipped: May 2022