We lost way too many artists in 2016 and I wanted to begin an indefinite process of commemorating their work. George Michael was, in my opinion, an underrated performer who had a reputation for giving audiences electric and memorable live shows. In this visualization, I used setlist.fm data to determine where he had played, either solo or as a member of Wham! I then wanted to match those performances with specific set lists to see how often certain songs were performed, and t

As part of the #MakeoverMonday series, I revisited a Slow Journalism article about the career of the late actor Alan Rickman. While the original viz was data-heavy and maybe a little overburdened with encoding of values, I decided to bring more of an audiovisual element to the remake. I scoured YouTube for clips (as family-friendly as possible, although that didn't turn out to be doable in every instance) that highlighted Mr. Rickman's performances in each of his movies. Afte