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Interactive data visualisation
Where Have I Spent My Life?
A visual exploration of how a life is distributed across cities, countries and continents.
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I turn economic and social data into visual stories.
I am an economist working at the intersection of research, data visualisation and information design. I am interested in how data can help us see familiar questions differently.
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Projects
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Interactive data visualisation
Stamps as Institutional Decisions
An exploration of the artists and artworks countries choose to turn into tiny, widely circulated cultural symbols.
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Experiments
Small investigations, visual exercises and ideas in progress. Not everything here is meant to become a finished project.
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About
I am a PhD economist with 11 years of experience in international organisations, including seven years at the United Nations in Geneva.
My work has focused on economic research, statistics and data analysis. I am now increasingly interested in what happens when economic and social data become visual: how information can be structured, explored and communicated through visualisation and design.
I am interested in the ways societies shape people — through economies, institutions, borders, culture and ideas — and in what happens when those systems change. My work explores questions about how we understand the world around us, often by looking at the gap between what we assume and what the data reveal.
This website brings together my visualisations, experiments and essays — work that sits somewhere between economics, data and information design.
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Contact
For collaborations, visualisation projects or just to talk about an idea:
popova.tonja@gmail.com