DATA STORY · INTERACTIVE VISUALISATION
Where Have I Spent My Life?
A visual exploration of how a life is distributed across cities, countries and continents.
View project →ECONOMIST · RESEARCH · VISUALISATION
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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DATA STORY · INTERACTIVE VISUALISATION
A visual exploration of how a life is distributed across cities, countries and continents.
View project →CULTURE · DATA · INSTITUTIONS
An exploration of the artists and artworks countries choose to turn into tiny, widely circulated cultural symbols.
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Small investigations, visual exercises and ideas in progress. Not everything here is meant to become a finished project.
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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 exploring how that analytical background can be combined with visualisation and information design to make complex evidence more accessible, interpretable and memorable.
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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I work with research-driven organisations, teams and individuals who need to make complex information clearer, more visual and more engaging.
Turning economic or social research and data into a clear visual narrative — from deciding what matters to designing how the evidence should be explored and understood.
Creating interactive visualisations that allow people to explore data rather than simply look at it.
Combining research, writing, data and visualisation into digital stories that communicate an idea from beginning to end.
Working with existing research, datasets or reports to identify the patterns, comparisons or relationships that are worth showing — and finding an effective visual form for them.
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For projects, collaborations or ideas:
popova.tonja@gmail.com