About Chris Wilson: I’m a journalist and engineer who specializes in interactive storytelling. This can take a lot of shapes – so to speak! – and I’m always eager to work with clients on bespoke projects that delight and engage their audiences.

The gallery is a good spot to get a sense for what I’ve done in the past. I can also help with a specific tasks in the data visualization pipeline. Here are a few broad categories of services I can render, in descending order of glamour if not importance:

• Games and interactive simulations, with or without AI involvement
• Interactive maps, charts and other visualizations that bring datasets to life
• Quizzes and scientific surveys — Whatever SurveyMonkey or Qualtrics can't do (like drawing!)
• Analysis of datasets for public presentation
• Gathering and organizing unstructured data, typically from the Web via custom crawling
• Consulting on how to use AI in ways that enrich your content without needling your audience
• Consulting on how to prove that you didn’t use AI
• Consulting on how to add new types of content to your site or app.

This last one is free if you’ve already hired me to produce something and need a hand embedding it. I promise it's easier than you think. I spent my last two years at Time in the Engineering department shoring up my self-taught coding credentials, so I can happily work with the digital gatekeepers to make sure that nothing we're doing is a security threat.

If you're interested in any of this, please reach out! My Gmail is best: christopher.e.wilson@gmail.com. Chats and quick consultations are, of course, free.

Bio

I've been a professional journalist for most of my career, most of which has been with Slate and TIME. I live in Washington, D.C. with my wife, son, and our insane menagerie of pets. I'm a mediocre pianist and am writing a novel about an out-of-work data journalist who gets drawn into a Bigfoot conspiracy. It's 480 pages so far.