Brian T. Jacobs
About
Work
Maker of data-driven web applications, designing and developing towards more usable interface and interactive visualization.
Currently a
Senior Creative Developer
at
National Geographic
.
@btjakes
[briantjacobs] -at- [gmail] -dot- [com]
briantjacobs
Latest Work
Denali National Park Map
National Geographic
Interactive development, responsive design, data processing, cartographic toolkit development.
Tech: Javascript/CSS, Backbone, Leaflet, Photoshop/Illustrator/Mapublisher, GDAL, Gulp, Node, commandline.
Recent Work
The New New York City Skyline
National Geographic
Interactive development, responsive design, graphics processing.
Tech: Javascript/CSS, Photoshop/Illustrator, Grunt, commandline, Google Sheets.
Climate Survival Guide
National Geographic
Interactive development, responsive design, graphics processing.
Tech: Javascript/CSS, Illustrator, Underscore, D3, Grunt.
Tracking Ivory
National Geographic
Interactive development/mapping, data processing.
Tech: Javascript/CSS, D3, Leaflet, Node, commandline.
Taking Back Detroit
National Geographic
Interactive development.
Tech: Javascript/CSS, Node, commandline.
Louisiana's Moonshot
ProPublica
Full-stack design/development, data/image processing.
Tech: Javascript/CSS, Ruby on Rails, Photoshop, ImageMagick, QGIS, Leaflet.
Losing Ground
ProPublica
Interactive design/development, data processing, space journalism.
Tech: Javascript/CSS, Ruby on Rails / Postgres, Photoshop, GDAL/Commandline, QGIS/ArcGIS, Leaflet, D3.
Datacollider
MIT SENSEable City Lab
Interactive design/development, data visualization, data processing.
Tech: Javascript/CSS, D3, Backbone, RequireJS, WebGL, Websockets, Web Workers, Grunt.