Can
Can Kadir Sucuoglu is currently working as a data scientist at Numina focusing on sustainable mobility after leading the Spatial Analytics and Visualization Initiative (SAVI) at Pratt Institute, a research center dedicated to empowering communities through data analytics and mapping. He is a trained architect from the Sci_Arc. Can teaches in the School of Architecture and School of Information at Pratt Institute.
Justin
Justin is a social researcher that specializes in mixed methods research and program evaluation with an interest in communities and equity within cities. His past work and projects include assessing the fulfillment of UNs New Urban Agenda by international cities, the impacts of nonprofit aid and intervention on South African communities living in urban informal settlements, and the impacts of incarceration on NYC youth. Justin holds an M.A. in International Affairs from The New School. He is currently the Director of Data and Evaluation for a NYC based nonprofit.
Jack
Jack Darcey is an urban planner and designer with a particular focus on transportation, streetscapes, and the public realm. He works on projects aimed at improving mobility and reducing car-dependency throughout New York City and around the country and is interested in exploring the street as an urban public space. He received his planning degree from Columbia University GSAPP and has worked previously as an educator, designer, and event organizer.
Wenfei
Wenfei Xu is a founding organizer of Data Through Design. She is an assistant professor in urban planning in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University. Her main research traces the legacies of historical structural disinvestment and asks how they have shaped present-day inequality and processes of neighborhood change.
Julia
Julia Bloom is a data scientist, artist, and educator based in NYC. Her work explores the proliferation of data in public spaces and the gap created between data-driven narratives and lived experience. She has worked as an academic researcher, program evaluator, and technology instructor, and was also an artist for Data Through Design’s 2021 and 2022 exhibitions. Julia earned her BA at McGill University and is a graduate of Columbia’s Quantitative Methods in Social Science Masters (QMSS) program.
Jen
Multidisciplinary artist Jen Ray focuses on female power and self-determination. She has been featured in numerous exhibitions in Europe and America including a mid-career retrospective at the Kasseler Kunstverein in Kassel, Germany and a performance with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Jen Ray and data visualization designer Jason Forrest have created Data Vandals, a partnership to engage with the data of the people of NYC. Inspired by historic influences such as Isotype design, social sculpture, infographics, and playful civic protest, they seek to inspire New Yorkers by presenting data stories in an engaging new way.
Rachel
Rachel Daniell is a writer, social science researcher, and data visualization specialist whose research centers on projects examining geospatial data, temporal data, and documentation practices as they intersect with human rights and historical memory. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the CUNY Graduate Center and MS in Data Analytics & Visualization/Certificate in Spatial Analysis & Design from Pratt Institute. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pratt School of Information, teaching courses in information studies, technology, and information and human rights.
Sara
Sara Eichner is a designer and cartographer focusing on data driven stories. She works in Brooklyn, NY with Pratt Institute’s Spatial Analysis and Visualization Initiative (SAVI) on a variety of design and geospatial projects, and she teaches GIS and spatial thinking in the Pratt School of Information graduate program. Some recent and ongoing projects are with the NYC DOT, Etsy, the NY State Department of Conservation, the Queens Museum, and the NY-NJ Harbor & Estuary Program. Sara has also had a career as a visual artist and has worked as an organizer of the Data Through Design exhibition since 2019.
Tereza
Tereza Chanaki is currently undertaking the Pratt Institute’s MS in Museums and Digital Culture degree. She also works as part of the New York Public Libray’s Exhibition Department at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. She is interested in how data specifically can be visualized and exhibited within information institutions to reveal stories and to inspire art. She holds a BA in English and History from the University of Nottingham, UK.
Sofia
Sofia is a designer focusing on data-driven experiences and products. She has been a corporate visual analytics consultant prior to joining a graduate program in Information Experience Design at Pratt Institute in New York in 2020, and starting to work as research assistant at Spatial Analytics Visualization Initiative (SAVI, part of Pratt), as well as a freelance product designer. Sofia is a part of the advisory board for data visualization community meetup in her hometown, Zurich, in Switzerland, and from 2021 helps to organize the Data Through Design exhibition in New York.
Graduate Assistants
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DxD relies on a team of dedicated volunteer organizers each year. We thank:
2023: Can Sucuoglu, Julia Bloom, Justin Roberts, Jack Darcey, Rachel Daniell, Sofia Martynovich, Sara Eichner, Wenfei Xu, Jen Ray, Tereza Chanaki, Jesse Ludington, and Su Jeong Jo
2022: Can Sucuoglu, Jessie Braden, Julia Bloom, Justin Roberts, Jack Darcey, Rachel Daniell, Sofia Martynovich, Ellen Oh, and Sara Eichner
2021: Alexander Kennedy, Can Sucuoglu, Jessie Braden, Kubi Ackerman, Sara Eichner, Soy Jeong, and Will Geary
2020: Soy Jeong, Will Geary, Can Sucuoglu, Sara Eichner, Alexander Kennedy, Nicolas Grefenstette, and Jessie Braden
2019: Wenfei Xu, Jessie Braden, Stephen Larrick, Joey Lee, and Juan Saldarriaga
2018: Jessie Braden, Wenfei Xu, Eve Ahearn, Michelle Ho, and Stuart Lynn