If you’ve had an opportunity to check out fathom.info recently, you may have noticed that we redesigned our website. Our new site better reflects our strengths as a company, highlighting projects that showcase our strong design capabilities and unique approach to data.
I personally have long been fascinated by textile arts, and as a studio we are always looking for ways to explore data-driven designs beyond the computer screen. The 1:1 comparison of pixels to stitches has been widely explored, but it wasn’t until recently that our studio had the means to explore it ourselves.
Mark and I were lucky enough to be invited as guest lecturers at Harvard’s CS171 Data Visualization course again this semester. We love being able to share our work outside of the office, especially in classrooms where students have the opportunity to ask questions. We covered some of the most frequently asked questions last year, but there were some new ones this semester.
Last week Mark and I had the opportunity to be guest lecturers at Harvard's CS171 Data Visualization course. It's always great to be able to get out of the office to talk with people about the work we're doing.
Education sits at the core of what we do. Our focus on education is about accessibility and opportunity: the more people with the power to prototype and build out their own ideas, the more innovation we will see. But it’s not just about teaching people to become the next Gates or Zuckerberg, it’s about giving people the skills and resources they need to share their unique contributions with a larger community. We do that by teaching code, in conjunction with design and storytelling, as a skill one can use to create.
Teaching and outreach are a really important part of our work. They help us stay connected to our local community, and give us an opportunity to see how people outside the office think about code and design. We also get to share different things we’re learning about. Over the past few weeks, I had the opportunity to help at both Scratch Day and a Girls Who Build workshop.
We're excited to announce our latest project, an interactive timeline for GE's corporate website showcasing their transformation as a company over the last 100+ years. GE is one of the world's largest companies, and that only feels more true as you look through their history, and see how they have influenced almost every sector of technology and industry. From healthcare to aviation, energy and power to television, GE has touched it all.
In between the release of No Ceilings and working on Space Monkeys & Tiger Wine, I visited Kew Gardens, home to the most diverse collection of plant species in the world. While reading up on the gardens in preparation for my trip, I came upon a recent paper by four female researchers looking at the gender gap in the field of botany.
On April 25, 2015, a massive earthquake of magnitude 7.8 struck Nepal. Since then, multiple aftershock tremors of magnitude 6 and greater have caused devastating casualties and damage in Kathmandu and its neighboring areas. Papua New Guinea, too, was in close proximity to a 7.1-magnitude earthquake earlier today. As our thoughts are with the affected families and communities, we've updated our earthquakes web explorer with the most recent data to shed light on the immensity of the recent earthquakes and their aftershocks.
Last week, some of us here at Fathom had the privilege of attending the Massachusetts Conference for Women, where we saw Secretary Clinton and Lupita Nyong'o speak.
In the last month, we built a tool that explores the global seismic activity occurring over a single year. The project integrates earthquake, population, and mortality risk data so that users can explore how the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes generates varying levels of risk around the world. Visit the site: fathom.info/quakes