Mihika Bansal – Looking Outwards – 08

The creative person I am analyzing with this post is Rachel Binx. Currently Rachel Binx is working at Netflix with the Content and Data team in Los Angeles. Before that Rachel worked at Mapzen, NASAJPL, and Stamen. Rachel describes herself as a data visualizer, developer, and designer.

In the lecture, Rachel specifically talks about new ways to visualize data, methods that transcend the way that we have typically thought about data in the past. She emphasizes the importance of the practicality of the manner in which the data is visualized, not just creating something that is “eye candy.” One of her projects that I find to be particularly interesting is the GPX Jewelry project, which creates interesting jewelry based on maps that she has used before.

She is a very engaged presenter which makes it more interesting to watch her work being presented as it engages the user and the audience.

Link to website: https://rachelbinx.com