Jared Whalen

New project out today! We used ChatGPT vision to help us identify animals on wine labels so we could find the best animal for your price point.

Follow along here for more details: 🧵

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.

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

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...

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.

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...

for the afternoon crowd: complete ur doomscroll and commence ur tunescroll ⬇️

What if we considered samples & interpolations as connections in sonic family trees?

My project out today @puddingviz.bsky.social w/ @jaredwhalen.com @matthew-daniels.bsky.social lets you see and hear the genealogy of our popular music.

pudding.cool/2025/04/musi...

Thanks Andy!!!

My latest for @puddingviz.bsky.social with @luriethereal.bsky.social! A look at how sound is passed down over generations. 🔊 on!

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.

yeah, they are all some combination of CSS and JS animations

From Queen Elizabeth to Kate Middleton: How the royal women make a statement with their color choices We analyzed thousands of photos to show how the women of the British monarchy use their clothing to send a message.

Another collaboration with @erindataviz.bsky.social! I know nothing about the royal family or dresses, but I do know how to make dots dance your screen.

www.axios.com/british-roya...

Trillions of cicadas are coming, but will it be a cicadapocalpyse? Trillions of cicadas will emerge in 2024. With 2 broods coming up at once, also known as a co-emergence, Axios Visuals dives in to fact-check the insect hype.

Cicadas! This one might actually be my favorite. All of the visual assets were handmade out of paper by our super talented illustration team.

www.axios.com/periodical-c...

Bitcoin ETF approval closes decade-long crypto saga with SEC Follow our timeline of key events toward launching an ETF alongside bitcoin price since 2013, as crypto entrepreneurs vied to give normal investors an easy way to trade bitcoin on public markets.

Our cyrypto team along with @erindataviz.bsky.social and I turned this chaotic bitcoin ETF timeline in just a few days, and to this day is one of my favorite pieces

www.axios.com/bitcoin-etf-...

Pickup trucks have gotten bigger, higher-tech — and more dangerous America has a unique love affair with pickup trucks — the Ford F-150, for instance, has been the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. for more than 40 years. During that time, pickups have changed signifi...

The first and only time Fox News yelled at me was for this piece I did with @willchase.bsky.social about how pickup trucks have gotten bigger, higher-tech, and more dangerous 🛻 🛻 🛻

www.axios.com/ford-pickup-...

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 🧵

How a gang's takedown revealed their playbook behind ransomware attacks One of the most devastating cyberattacks plaguing companies today has been around for a decade — and its perpetrators have hardly had to innovate to stay profitable.

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...