2026
U.S. County Home Values
An arrow-based visualization of year-over-year change in residential property values across every U.S. county, animating the past twelve months of Zillow's ZHVI.
Field experiments in humanistic mapping
Each project is a working answer to one question: how do we render the meaning of a place? Below are public-scholarship maps, web platforms, and software released by the lab.
2026
Möbius ∞ City
An interactive 3D city built on a Möbius strip with three half-twists, folding streets, blocks, and skylines into a continuous figure-8 topology you can fly through.
2025
AeroPulse: Real-time Flight Disruption Tracker
A live map of flight delays, cancellations, and diversions, surfacing how disruptions ripple across the global aviation network.
2025
Seattle City Lights: Mapping Urban Illumination
An interactive cartography of Seattle's nighttime light landscape, reading the city through its illuminated infrastructures.
2025
MBTA Transit Equity Atlas
An equity-focused web atlas of Boston's MBTA system, examining how transit access intersects with race, income, and opportunity.
2025
Mapping Yi-Fu Tuan's Humanistic Geography
A geo-narrative tribute to Yi-Fu Tuan, tracing the places, ideas, and itineraries that shaped humanistic geography.
2024
Shifting LGBTQ+ Spaces
A continuing inquiry into the geographies of LGBTQ+ life, charting how queer spaces emerge, persist, and disappear across time.
2023
Archiving the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP)
Critical and creative (un)mapping of the 2020 CHOP, weaving archival materials and oral histories into a layered geo-narrative of the protest space.
With D. Koopman, J.-K. Jung, H. Sun, & C. Anderson
2022
Shifting Queer Space in the United States (2000—2019)
A web map of Damron Men's Travel Guide venues over two decades, charting the shifting geography of queer life across the United States.
With Q. Zhang, Y. Xia, J. Huang, & L. Peng
2021
Deepfake Geography
A public scholarship project on AI-fabricated satellite imagery and the emerging challenges deepfakes pose to spatial truth, trust, and geographic knowledge.
2020
COVID-19 Risk to Washington Workers
A smart dashboard characterizing occupational risk to Washington workers during the COVID-19 economic recovery.
With Marissa Baker & Kim England · UW Population Health Initiative
2020
Novel Coronavirus Infection Map
One of the earliest live dashboards of the COVID-19 pandemic, built in February 2020 and reported by BBC, National Geographic, and Anadolu Agency.
With F. Xu, L. Kang, J. Ji, J. Ho, & S. Bao
2020
University of Washington Virtual Tour
An interactive virtual tour of UW's School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, blending 3D scenes with on-the-ground photography.
2019
Damron Seattle: Mapping Queer Space
A Seattle case study from the Damron Men's Travel Guide: locating decades of LGBTQ+ venues to recover a long-silenced urban history.
2018
Global Refugee Atlas
A National Geographic—funded atlas tracing global refugee flows and the geographies of displacement.
With Jamon Van Den Hoek & Jennifer Alix-Garcia · National Geographic NGS-51699S-18
2018
TWCA Water Calculator
A geovisual analytic platform for the Turfgrass Water Conservation Alliance, helping turfgrass producers reason about regional water savings.
Funded by Turfgrass Water Conservation Alliance
2018
Goss Point Cloud Viewer
A WebGL point cloud viewer for sharing high-resolution lidar scans on the open web.
2018
GEEViz: Google Earth Engine Geovisualization
A web platform for exploring planetary-scale Google Earth Engine datasets through interactive geovisual analytics.
Supported by Google Cloud Platform · with H. Friedrich
2018
Stand with #StandingRock
An epistemological experiment in geospatial big data during the post-truth era, supporting the land claims of Sioux tribes through critical mapping.
With Yuanyuan Tian, Shaozeng Zhang, & Shenliang Chen
2017
Oregon Water Atlas
A digital collection and visualization of Oregon's water resources — winner of the Student Environment Challenge (Oregon Chapter, AWMA).
2017
Sea Level Rise Induced Migration
An award-winning visualization of how sea level rise reshapes coastal migration patterns in the United States. Grand Prize, Ecological Visualization Contest.
NSF-DBI-1062566
2017
H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Point Cloud
A web point-cloud visualization of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest headquarters area, built from terrestrial lidar.
2016
Storymap.js
A lightweight JavaScript library for telling place-based stories on web maps. Used in courses and community projects.