A Selection of Audiovisual Investigations
by Noah Pisner
by Noah Pisner
The Carbon Bubble — Quartz, October 2019 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 2019 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, October 2018 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.
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Made In China, Made Here — Quartz, October 2018 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.
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Cognition, a Neural 'News Network' — Quartz, March 2019 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 2019 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 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.
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Should This Exist — Quartz, January 2019 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?
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