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Hi, I'm

Connor

Rothschild

And I tell visual stories on the web.

Portfolio 2023

01. Selected projects

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Projects I’ve built

The Bob Ross Virtual Art Gallery

How Much Does Kid Cudi Hum?

Mapping Missing Migrants

Quarantunes

02. Selected awards

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Awards I’ve won

Award of Excellence, 2023 Best of News Design Creative Competition

Society for News Design

Society for News Design

Longlist, 5x

Information is Beautiful

Information is Beautiful

Bronze, 2021 Malofiej Awards

Malofiej

Malofiej

1st Place, 2021 Student Design Contest

Society for News Design

Society for News Design

Winner, The 2020 Pudding Cup

The Pudding

The Pudding

Honorable Mention, RStudio Table Contest

RStudio, Inc.

RStudio, Inc.

2nd Place, 2020 D2K Showcase

Data to Knowledge Lab

Data to Knowledge Lab

Bronze, 2020 Malofiej Awards

Malofiej

Malofiej

Hudspeth Award

Rice Political Science Department

Rice Political Science Department

1st Place, Coronavirus Houston Response Projects

Data To Knowledge Lab

Data To Knowledge Lab

1st Place, 2020 Houston Policy Challenge

Rice University

Rice University

1st Place (Houston Track), 2020 Rice Datathon

Rice DataSci Club

Rice DataSci Club

Student Winner, Computation + Journalism 2020 Conference

Northeastern University

Northeastern University

2nd Place, 2019 Houston Policy Challenge

Rice University

Rice University

1st Place, BIPP Competition

The Baker Institute for Public Policy

The Baker Institute for Public Policy

1st Place, 2018 Houston Policy Challenge

Rice University

Rice University

National Champion, IX Speaking

National Speech and Debate Association

National Speech and Debate Association

03. Selected blog posts

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Posts I’ve written​

February 2023

Specifying an exact number of ticks for your D3 scale

A convenient utility function, which allows you to specify an exact number of ticks for your D3 scale.

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d3tutorial

January 2022

Build your first scrollytelling visualization with Svelte

(In like 100 lines of code)

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svelted3tutorial

December 2021

This site is live!

A creative, content-focused personal website, built with SvelteKit

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sveltepersonal

July 2021

Making visualizations literally w/ Svelte & D3

Why Svelte has replaced (and complemented) D3 as my go-to tool for powerful visualizations

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svelted3tutorial

May 2021

Including R in your Flat Data Workflow

Fetch and clean data automatically with GitHub Actions + R

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rgithubtutorial

February 2021

Announcing the Nuxt Blog Starter

A minimal, content-focused blog site built with NuxtJS and Bulma

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vuenuxtpackage

July 2020

Animating Your Hugo Academic Site

Make your Hugo Academic homepage more engaging with a few lines of code

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htmlrtutorial

July 2020

Firearm Background Checks Are Spiking

Visualizing the precipitous rise in gun sales during COVID-19

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analysisr

June 2020

How to Add a Chart to Your D3 Tooltip

A few lines of code can make your D3 tooltips significantly more informative

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d3htmltutorial

January 2020

Color in Data Visualization: Less How, More Why

An overview of the use of color in data visualization

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colortheory

October 2019

How to Scrollytell in R

Because it’s easier than doing it in D3

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rtutorial
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