Hi, I'm Chris Ryan
I'm a Senior Art Editor at Nature in London.
I enjoy designing interactive graphics with D3, Three.js, PixiJS and Svelte, wrangling data with Python and animating with Adobe After Effects.
You can find me on Bluesky, GitHub, Codepen and Observable.
Projects
Analysing Nobel Prize data to collaboratively create an immersive article combining 2D and 3D graphics animated graphics with static ai2html charts.
With Kerri Smith. Finalist: Association of British Science writters, Research Policy or Funding Story of the Year.
Scrollytelling canvas graphic built with Svelte and D3 to be embedded in a Shorthand page.
Written and edited by Kerri Smith.
Timeline and 3D animation built with Svelte, Three.js and GSAP. Insulin molecule downloaded from Protein Data Bank and processed with Blender.
Produced by Nature Milestones.
Featuring a scrollytelling map built with d3. Data processed with pandas and d3-geo.
Written by Amy Maxmen and edited by Brendan Maher.
Built with a customised version of the d3-sankey plugin to allow countries to be sorted by continent or by volume of people.
Static graphics and colour scheme by Jasiek Krzysztofiak. Written by Declan Butler and edited by Brendan Maher.
Brushable Scatterplot built with D3. Original data analysis performed with python and csvKit, hosted on GitHub and cited within the article.
Written by Heidi Ledford and edited by Brendan Maher.