
In 2018, while working towards my MS at Parsons,
Aaron Hill, director of the Data Visualization program, had been working on uncertainty in data vis; writing a research paper and building a design tool to explore
visually representing uncertainty in data.
Visualizing uncertainty is an under-researched topic in the data visualization community.
Aaron approached me about collaborating together on an identity for this new project.
I gladly accepted
and we set about defining the parameters of the project identity.
Aaron had the idea of making the logotype to be interactive
and itself act as an example of how visualization can be used to imbue the uncertainty of the underlying data.
Pulling from the visual variables of shape, texture and motion.
I used the data visualization javascript library
D3.js to generate the graphics.
I coded three versions of the logotype.
The logotypes were embedded into the home page of the project site at
(reload the page to cycle through the variants)
I was there at 2018 IEEE VIS in Berlin
as the paper was presented by Aaron as part of the VIS Arts Program session.