I'm Dexter (he/him), currently working as an Associate Producer with the network digital graphics team at CBC News in Toronto, ON, Canada. I'm a Datawrapper enthusiast, and enjoy hacking it to do all sorts of cool stuff. I'm a former Javascript/node.js developer who's in love with Python. I love telling visual stories with data and graphics.
Assorted data I'm working with can be found at the cbc-data repository, and I'm always happy to have contributions to the Datawrapper Graphics library I'm building. The inner workings of live charts I've build for CBC News can be found in my cbc-datawrapperscripts repository.
You can find many of my best visualizations on my portfolio, which I designed and built myself using Vue.js.
- 📝Currently working on: a Python library to work with Datawrapper maps and charts, including a class to live-update locator maps.
- 🦟Fun fact: I'm on a lifelong mission to find out how many mosquitoes it would take to kill you.
- 🌱Currently learning: How to create (better) data viz with D3.
- 🏢Currently looking: For opportunities! If you have work related to data analysis or visualization, web development, or Datawrapper, get in touch on twitter at @dexmcmillan or by email.
- Data work: Daily data work can be found here.
- Datawrapper graphics: A Python library I created for interfacing between Pandas dataframes and Datawrapper graphics.
- Cartogrammer: A library I created to turn shapefiles into cartogram shapefiles using Geopandas.
- Weather Records App: An app that shows how long Canadian cities have gone without breaking a daily temperature record.
- Excellence in Data Storytelling, RTDNA Awards, 2022 - I did the graphics for this fantastic data story by my colleagues at CBC's investigative unit. See how I did it here.
- Excellence in Data Storytelling - When I worked for CBC's investigative unit, I was part of a small team that did most of the data work for The Big Spend, a national project tracking COVID-19 relief funds in Canada.
🐦Twitter: | @dexmcmillan |
🏢LinkedIn: | @dexmcmillan |
📃Portfolio: | www.dextermcmillan.com |