Visualizing Self-Tracked Data to Navigate Well-being
2018—present
As an Information Design and Data Visualization educator, I see teaching as something I do with my students. Our work moves beyond techniques and software into a shared space where data becomes a way to understand ourselves. Since 2018, students in my classroom have examined everyday behaviors, emotions, and habits, turning what look like scattered traces of life into grounded stories about who they are becoming. Many draw on themes from Positive Psychology such as gratitude, kindness, goals, and mindfulness. By tracking their own patterns and shaping them into intentional visual forms, they learn design, and they also learn to pause, reflect, and make sense of their experiences.
The gallery below brings together work that shows this path from data to discovery. It includes projects from students in my Information Design courses, many of whom arrive from outside the design field. Alongside their work are my own projects and essays, shaped by teaching, workshops, and research. Together they form an ongoing record of how data visualization can help us tell honest stories, notice what we might otherwise miss, and find perspective.
*All student work displayed on this website is showcased with their permission.
