Humanizing Covid‑19 Data
By simulating what would happen if all Covid‑19 deaths in Brazil happened in your neighborhood, “No Epicentro” tries to humanize an evergrowing number
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With over 10 years of experience, I have recently provided data visualization consultancy for Google News Initiative, the Washington Post, and the World Health Organization.
My work has been awarded the “Best in Show” 🏆 by SND, among 1,700 entries worldwide – as well as the best data visualization in Latin America by WAN-IFRA Digital Media Awards. I was also a Jury member at Brasil Design Awards.
In early 2022, I taught datavis and web development at IDP & Insper (graduate programs in Brazil). Now, I am a full-time lecturer at the University of Miami, where I teach coding, design & data visualization.
Below you’ll find some of my data-driven projects — as well as a cute dinosaur if you scroll all the way down. 🦖
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Google & Lupa — 2020 Screen-recording of the mobile version of the website, after a user entered an address. The main visual of the interface is a black map with white dots (each dot represents one death), displayed in a huge circle around the user’s location. -
Master’s Thesis — 2021 Digging a Hole Through Earth
SuperTunnel is an educational tool that simulates a hole through Earth, indicating where in the world you would end up if you dug in a certain direction
Learn moreBesides playing with the desktop version of the SuperTunnel Simulator, people could interact with a physical shovel (a tangible interface) to control the direction of the tunnel – as part of an installation in science museums. -
Estadão — 2019 Child Adoption Simulation
A story on how age & disabilities impact a child’s likelihood of being chosen by a foster parent, using growing plants as a visual metaphor
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Desktop and mobile version of an interactive chart that represents children as tiny plants, that grow as time passes – while they wait for a new parent to adopt them. These plants are also grouped by categories such as ethnicity, siblings and disabilities. -
Personal — 2017 Government Barbecues
Thousands of overpriced meals were purchased by the Brazilian government with public money. This fiery chart shows them all
Learn moreDesktop version of website design for data journalism news article focused on government expenses on barbecues. -
Estadão — 2019 FaceApp’s Racial Bias Experiment
After applying the aging filter 5× on the same photos, all faces were whitened, indicating racially biased dataset was used to train the app’s AI
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A visual composition showcasing black actor Terry Crews as an animation: from his original photo, then to the result of the first image filter, then to the second, and so on. The result is a looped animation in which his face gets more white after each filter (and also extremely distorted by excessive wrinkles). -
World Health Organization — 2022 Explaining Covid‑19 Vaccination Benefits
With illustrated analogies & a friendly conversational tone, this series of social media videos try to explain why vaccination is important
Case Study SoonA social media post simulates a chat between a person and WHO. It explains why vaccination is important to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed, which leads to people (Covid-19 patients, but also other patients) being left untreated. To explain that, the video uses an analogy of a cup (representing the capacity of a hospital), which is overflown with colored balls. Every ball represents a patient. Those who fell outside of the cup represent patients who were not able to get treatment due to overcrowded hospitals. -
Personal — 2019 Eco‑Friendly Dinosaur Toys
“Montadino” is a concept initiative for crafting toys from reused EVA foam, which is largely used in schools and often goes to waste
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Animation where a cute T-Rex (toy in red) is mounting a Brontosaur (toy in brown), which sucumbs to the T-Rex weight. The dinosaur on top keeps moving his head in loop – as if trying to understand the situation.
Get in touch
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Thanks for scrolling all this way! Now, feel free to send me an email about your ideas and how we might work together to make them happen.
Mentoring
In case you are personally intrigued about a topic I might help you with, I’m a mentor on ADPList, where you can book a 1-hour session with me. It’s free! ✨
Through mentoring, I’ve done my best to help dozens of people worldwide make a career shift, improve their portfolios, or even prepare for a presentation.
Speaking
Additionally, I’m open to (and happy about 💕) invitations for speaking at conferences or being a guest lecturer.
In the past, I’ve talked about breaking some dataviz rules, as well as humanizing numbers using visual metaphors.
I’ve also given lectures (mostly to journalists & designers) on getting insights from data, improving collaboration, and using data creatively — but also critically.
