Hi, I'm Ash Ngu.
I currently build data visualization tools at Netflix. Previously, I made data-driven stories and web apps for ProPublica and The New York Times.
Journalism
- Tracking The Repatriation of Native American Remains Under NAGPRABuilt a web application showing which institutions still have ancestral remains. Used by 70+ newsrooms to further report on delayed repatriation.Pitch • Reporting • Design • Development • Data Collection • Data Analysis • Data Visualization • Writing
- Nonprofit ExplorerBuilt key pages and a chart component for a nonprofit financial data tool widely used by journalists, donors, and researchers.Design • Development • Data Visualization
- America’s Highest Earners And Their TaxesWorked closely with business reporters to turn raw tax data into a visual walkthrough explaining how the highest earning Americans are taxed.Design • Development • Data Visualization • Writing
- Claim File HelperBuilt a tool that helps patients request information from their insurers to find out why their claim was denied.Design • Development • Writing • Art Direction
- The Smoke Comes Every Year. Sugar Companies Say the Air Is Safe.Published an explainer visualizing the impact of cane sugar burns in Florida using data we collected using real-time air monitors.Design • Development • Data Collection • Data Analysis • Data Visualization • Writing
- Chicken CheckerBuilt a grocery shopping tool that helps people see how often salmonella was found at their poultry processor.Design • Development • Data Visualization
- States Are Reopening: See How Coronavirus Cases Rise or FallBuilt a dashboard visualizing states' COVID trajectories and whether states were meeting reopening guidelines.Design • Development • Data Visualization
- Tracking Hospital Utilization in Illinois At The Start of The PandemicBuilt a hospital utilization tracker months before the Illinois Department of Public Health published their own.Design • Development • Data Visualization
- How to Understand COVID-19 NumbersDesigned a quick series of cards to help readers develop COVID data literacy.Design • Data Visualization
- Hawaii's Beaches Are DisappearingProduced a visual explainer of beach damage from seawalls in Hawaii using public records data.Design • Development • Data Visualization • Writing • Drone Videography
- Opinion | To Help Prevent the Next Big Wildfire, Let the Forest BurnPitched and produced a timely visual op-ed using data to present the case for prescribed burns.Pitch • Reporting • Writing • Design • Data Visualization
- Opinion | Why Can’t Rich People Save Winter?Used mapping and legislative data to show how politicians in ski states aren’t doing enough to stop climate change and save the snowpack.Reporting • Data Visualization
- Opinion | We Should Worry About How China Uses Apps Like TikTokVisualized app data foreshadowing concerns over the increased popularity of TikTok in the Five Eyes countries.Design • Data Visualization
- What It Takes to Get an Abortion in the Most Restrictive U.S. StateProduced a visual comparison of how to get an abortion in two states to highlight disparities in abortion access.Reporting • Design • Development
- After the Las Vegas Shooting, the Nation Moved On. Many Survivors Did Not.Crunched Ticketmaster data to show the wide geographic spread of those affected by the shooting.Reporting • Writing • Interviewing • Data Visualization
- Gender on This American LifeCollected a unique dataset and built an interactive explainer proving a gender disparity in air time on the acclaimed radio show.Pitch • Design • Development • Data Collection • Data Analysis • Data Visualization • Writing
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