A Selection of Audiovisual Investigations
by Noah Pisner
by Noah Pisner
The Carbon Bubble — Quartz, Oct. '19 – Prod. Designer / Reporter The S&P 500 emits as much CO2 as the Amazon rainforest absorbs. This features shows which equities are actively reducing emissions, and how divestment from carbon has virtually zero impact on S&P performance. A 2020 Digiday Best Data Viz Award finalist.
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China's Coal Dilemma — Quartz, December '19 – Prod. Designer / Reporter Here is every proposed coal power plant China is bankrolling around the world. If these 60 proposed plants get built in Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America, they’ll emit as much CO2 as all of Spain. A 2020 Digiday Best Data Viz Award finalist.
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An Arctic Economy Awakens — Quartz, Nov. '18 — Lead Producer / Reporter In Greenlandic waters, armed with a 360 camera, we found economic birth and ecological desolation. This investigative feature won various awards, including top prize at 2019's Digiday Awards.
The 2050 Project — Quartz, Feb. '19 — Editorial Director The 2050 Project is an exploration of creative solutions to the challenges of urban living. Using live-captured photogrammetry via drones, we tell stories of urban innovation by showcasing futuristic buildings around the world in augmented reality.
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Made In China, Made Here — Quartz, Oct. '18 — Lead Producer / Reporter Yiwu, China was once a tiny trading town. Today, it hosts a wholesale goods complex several times the size of JFK airport. If it says 'Made in China' it probably came from here. See Yiwu in 360 degrees.
Security Champion — Quartz, March '18 — Prod. Designer / Editor For Quartz sponsor Citrix, we designed and built an eight-bit RPG game in which users, playing the role of a CEO, must save a company from hackers.
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Cognition, a Neural 'News Network' — Qz, March '19 – UX / Prod. Designer Quartz uses Machine Learning for journalistic research and targeted information curation. With Cognition, we see Natural Language Processing in action, showing you what our "AI" sees when viewing articles and videos on Qz.com.
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Tap Stories / Courses — Quartz, Summer '18 – UX / Prod. Designer / Editor Can we reimagine the gesture-driven UX of Instagram? My "Tap Stories" have set record performance benchmarks at Quartz. This first Tap series received six industry awards for product innovation, e-learning, and digital storytelling.
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Usable — Quartz, June 2019 – Producer Our lives are dominated by an abundance of small design decisions, most of which are invisible. Usable sets out to uncover the unexpected user experience considerations behind some of life’s most common objects, places, and experiences.
Wiretap — Anonymous Content, In Development — Lead Producer In 2012, a clandestine ATF operation involved the agency's best 'undercovers' hunting down Oakland’s most violent criminals during the city’s violent crime peak. This is the story of what went right, what went wrong, from the words and wires of the agents, cops, informants, shooters, shot callers, and politicians.
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Should This Exist — Quartz, January 2019 – Associate Producer Technology isn't always good or bad, but it always presents a question: Should This Exist? This podcast invites the creators of radical new technologies to ponder: What is the the invention's promise? And what could possibly go wrong?
Tes: A Westworld Bot — Qz / HBO, March '19 — Producer / Editor HBO partnered with Quartz to introduce viewers to Tes, a Delos host inviting recent Westworld visitors to join an exclusive park loyalty program. The bot, powered by natural language processing and carefully scripted storylines, immersed users via Facebook chat.
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