Selected Work

The mission, as I see it: hyperstitioning public transit into every American city. Subway Builder is a game created by Colin Miller, a member of Room 302 Studio, in 2025 — a sort of Ender's Game for transit, using realistic simulations to let train-people SHOW their elected leaders what is and is not possible.

I believe that if I spend so much time looking at and thinking about my computer, I want to have full control over the fonts and colors I look at — to make it cinematic, aesthetic, "me," and different. And it's so dope that when I go to coffee shops (true story), people stop me and say "that setup looks sick, can I give you my card in case I need a dev?"

In 2021, WNYC/Gothamist got the NYPD's full civilian-complaint dataset through a FOIL request and handed it to me — every complaint and every officer since 2000, including officers named only as witnesses and complaints the CCRB never substantiated. Noisier than the data ProPublica had published a year earlier, but for mapping a network that noise is the signal: being named on a complaint alongside another officer, even an unfounded one, means the two of them interacted in a way the public noticed.

I spend all day looking at screens that want something from me. Pixel Canvas is a screen that doesn't — a networked 320×240 display that sits on my desk and quietly shows me my own life in the Vulpes palette.

Two small apps for the same tiny, useless-but-perfect screen: flipper-space-calculators and flipper-generative-art.

Global Energy Monitor's Ownership Tracker is a giant network: thousands of owners — governments, corporations, private equity firms, and the intermediaries between them — connected to tens of thousands of energy-related assets around the world. It's a rich dataset that had been genuinely hard to explore, so we built a set of tools to open it up. You can trace the full ownership chain behind a single project (down to the stakes held by the likes of BlackRock and EDF), see the whole energy-asset portfolio connected to one owner, and screen owners by what they actually own — coal-based steel plants, proposed mines in BRICS countries, captive gas plants for data centers.

I was perusing Mastodon, as one does, and noticed a post from journalist Micah Lee saying he was exploring a 200GB dump from American paramilitary groups — a leak made possible through the incredible bravery of John Williams, who infiltrated these groups and exfiltrated the data. I hadn't heard of the dump before, and immediately sent Micah an email offering to help with any dataviz.

It started as a prototype I made in January — a touchscreen way to explore county-level election results — that I demoed to Adam, then to Steve, then to Marc, until it got the budget and became the real thing: the "Big Board" Steve Kornacki wields on air, live, in front of ten to nineteen million people.

I started filming my rides in case something went wrong. A helmet cam is insurance — if an accident or something crazy happened, at least there'd be a tape. But over a few years the reason quietly changed on me. I'd flip it on for the beautiful stuff instead: a good stretch of road, the light, whatever cool thing was happening. One time I caught a train and a helicopter lining up over the Hudson River exactly as I rode past.