Ripley Cleghorn
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Hi! I'm a data visualization designer with a passion for weaving storytelling into elegant visuals. I completed my Master's in Data Visualization in May of 2021 Parson's School of Design. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions or if you are interested in collaborating!
Graduate Work
Websites and Interactive Visuals
Scaling Down to Zero: The Need to Reconsider Negative Emissions Technologies

For my thesis I created a series of dynamic visualizations showing the main limits to scaling up one specific Negative Emissions Technology (NET) referred to as Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS).

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The Life of Sally Ride

This project is a visual biography of the life of the first American woman to go to space, Sally Ride. It focuses on her first mission in detail, and incorporates other parts of her life in a condensed manner. This project used the Smithsonian open access API.

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Counting Quipu: The Ancient Data Collection Devices

This visualization is a graphical representation of one of the Quipu in the Smithsonian collection. Quipu (also written Khipu) were an ancient record keeping device created in Central and South America by indigenous Andeans, prior to Spanish colonization.

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Why Do Nonvoters Not Vote?

This visualization outlines main reasons people have for not voting, according to data published by The Pew Research Center.

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Contamination Nation

This timeline explores the human-felt effects of industrial pollution.

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How Predictable Are Car Accidents in These U.S. Cities?

This project aimed to find patterns in traffic accident data, both in terms of days of the week and severity of accidents, among six U.S. cities.

How Did Quarantine Affect 311 Calls?

I visualized three types of complaints that the NYPD received during the last two years: residential noise complaints, street/sidewalk noise complaints, and non-emergency police matters, demonstrating a spike due to the first COVID19 lockdowns.

Non-Graduate Work
Tupelo Press

I created this visualization for a literary press in order to illustrate the flow of publishing and distributing a book.

Abortion Access in the United States

This interactive dashboard allows the user to easily compare access to abortion services, as well as counseling and waiting periods, between states. It also shows how the absence of Roe v Wade would affect this access.

How Have Certain Laws Affected Immigration in Sweden?

This timeline was created as part of the CGDV hackathon, and shows how immigration in Sweden has changed in correlation with certain asylum laws.

Let's get in touch!

ripley.cleghorn@gmail.com

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