Data Viz

A shareable “year in reading” built from your Goodreads data.

I stumbled on a striking statistic while reading The Atlantic the other day. In 2023, fourteen percent of students reported reading for fun almost every day. This percentage was 3 percentage points lower than 2020, and 13 percentage points lower than 2012. - The Nation’s Report Card The editor Adam Kirsch suggests that campaigns that frame reading as democratic duty are ill-fated to reverse the decline. Instead, if reading is to survive, it must be reintroduced as something pleasurable, perhaps even a bit transgressive. ...

WasteNotNYC invites visitors to rethink the full journey of their daily waste — from what’s on their plate to what ends up in the city’s bins. Participants select from a menu of items and are prompted to guess how much can be composted, recycled, or sent to landfill. The system then reveals the correct answers, compares their guesses to others, and projects the environmental impact if those materials were properly sorted over a year. The display then zooms out to a citywide map, visualizing how neighborhoods differ in waste diversion and access to composting, recycling, and reuse programs. Blending playful quizzes, personalized feedback, and civic data storytelling, WasteNotNYC turns the invisible infrastructure of waste management into a shared civic experience. It encourages visitors to see waste not as an endpoint, but as a system of resources, choices, and collective responsibility. ...