Career

I’m a researcher and data journalist with a focus on visualising and communicating climate change.

Right now I’m working at 360info as the Data and Digital Storytelling Lead, building the data visualisation and analysis capability of a new, open newswire supported by Monash University.

Here are some of the more ambitious interactives I’ve produced:

Featured work

Sinking cities

Where are coastal cities sinking?

Extreme heat

How are hot days affecting workers?

The renewables transition

Nations are slowly but surely moving to cleaner sources of electricity.

Arms trade

Who supplies and receives arms?

Asteroid strikes

What would an asteroid or comet impact be like?

Most popular countries for students

What would an asteroid or comet impact be like?

Mixed use

How governments, the military and business share satellites

I also produce static charts and infographics, train our interns in data storytelling, work with our media partners to help them use our interactives and datasets, and manage our GitHub presence, working to make our data and graphics more discoverable.

Although I work in data journalism, I have a background researching the public health impacts of climate change. Here’s my published research.

I sometimes give talks on data visualisation, storytelling, open data science and climate change:

Talks

Climate Change and Solutions Journalism

For Monash journalism students

Talking about climate change in 7 seconds

For the Non-Uniform Monash Business Analytics Team

Telling climate stories with, and around, data

For the Statistical Society of Australia’s WA branch

Climate Change, Migration and the Role of Climate Data

For the Calcutta Research Group

Datavis: Going Big For Mass Media

For the DAT/Artathon 2022 workshop

Quarto: create beautiful documents with R, Python, Julia and Observable

For the R Users Network for Australian Public Policy

Have ideas about communicating climate change or other big ideas better? I’m always happy to talk!