Jared Whalen

@jaredwhalen.com

Data viz at Polygraph/The Pudding and Ag&Water Desk. Formerly Axios, Philadelphia Inquirer, Delaware Online

This piece is part of the @agwaterdesk.bsky.social's "Down the Drain: A watershed moment for America’s greatest wetlands", an 8-part series taking readers from the vanishing coast of Louisiana to productive hunting lakes in Minnesota. agwaterdesk.org/2025/04/14/d...

Down the Drain: A new series on wetlands by the Ag & Water Desk - Ag & Water Desk

Our latest collaborative project, free to republish, explores recent legal and policy changes impacting wetlands, and the many ways people interact with these landscapes in the Mississippi River Basin...

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Jared Whalen@jaredwhalen.com · last yr.

New from @agwaterdesk.bsky.social: 🦆 How two centuries of alteration converted much the nation's wetlands into the nation’s corn belt – and how a 2023 SCOTUS decision might put what's left at risk. This was published with support from the @startribune.com 🙏 www.startribune.com/why-the-nati...

New from @agwaterdesk.bsky.social: 🦆 How two centuries of alteration converted much the nation's wetlands into the nation’s corn belt – and how a 2023 SCOTUS decision might put what's left at risk. This was published with support from the @startribune.com 🙏 www.startribune.com/why-the-nati...

Why the nation’s altered wetland landscape faces new threats

Take an interactive tour through the Mississippi River Basin, from bog to bayou, that explores the changing wetland landscape.

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Here's a little tool I built to design Flexoki 2.0. I wanted artistic control over ramping while still interpolating colors programmatically with Oklab. In the future it could be used to create more hues and emulate watercolor pigment types within the Flexoki color space.

But also – this is my last project (and day) at @axios.com. I'll be moving over to Polygraph / @puddingviz.bsky.social. The last few years have been incredible and it was an incredible opportunity to work with so many talented people. Here are a few my favorite projects I got to work on 🧵

Jared Whalen@jaredwhalen.com · 2y ago

First post! My latest from @visuals.axios.com: How a ransomware attack works This was a fun project to build. Probably the most CSS animations I've forced into a single page ✨ Words by @samsabin.bsky.social, illustration by Aïda Amer, dev by me. www.axios.com/visuals/comp...

🧵Okay let's do some BTS for Axios' elections #dataviz. 1/5: We used <canvas> for our big maps, which means we had to do some tricks with color hashes to get interactivity. What the reader sees vs. what the computer sees. Details on how it works: observablehq.com/@camargo/can...

A 2024 presidential election map where the states are colored red or blue depending on the candidate that won the state.A 2024 presidential election map where the states are all colored a slightly different shade of red or green. Each state has a unique color.
Jacque Schrag@jacqueschrag.com · 2y ago

With so much election #dataviz to choose from, pretty pleased to have the map I worked on for Axios included. Thinking about sharing some behind-the-scenes look at what we did, so stay tuned for that.