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.
Duration: Three months
Regression • Data Cleaning • R • Python • Policy Analysis • Illustrator • Writing • Scrollytelling
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