Jonathan Cousins
Consulting / Projects / Teaching
New York University (2010-present)
Adjunct professor of information visualization for Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications Program.
SEED Media Group (2009-present)
Design and development consultant for SEED Visualization.
Tripledex, LLC (2007-present)
Designer and developer for the Tripledex data visualization interfaces used by Tripledex and project partners and sponsors such as the Open Source Software Institute and the Department of
Homeland Security.
ABACUS, Artist in Residence at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
(summer 2009 and summer 2010)
Designer and developer of information visualizations as data narratives for the performance of ABACUS at EMPAC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Experimental Media and
Performing Arts Center.
Popular Mechanics (2010)
Designer and developer of data visualizations for mobile platforms including Earthquake visualization.
Strategy consultant, iPad-based inaugural issue.
Hearst Corporation (2009-2010)
Prototype developer for mobile platforms.
World Economic Forum (2009)
Designed and developed data visualization for the World Economic Forum Summit in Dubai.
VotaVox Orb (2009)
Developed a dynamic web-based data visualization and filtering tools for displaying multi-dimensional voting records in a two-dimensional representation.
Edopter.com (2008-2009)
Designed and developed a dynamic web-based timeline data visualization of the spread of new trends across the Edopter network.
Outside.In (2007)
Web-based data visualization "Buzzmap"
created for presentation at Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, 2007
New York Law School (2006-2007)
Development of software for subprime mortgage
and mortgage denial rate data analysis
Columbia Artists Management (1999-2005)
Associate Director, Corporate Communications
Worked directly with artist managers on the booking and publicity of U.S. tours.
Chicago City Limits (1996-1997)
Resident Company Stage Manager
Education
MPS, New York University (2007)
Interactive Telecommunications Program, Paulette Goddard Scholarship
BA, City University of New York (2005)
Electronic Design and Multimedia, James R. Steers Award for Design
BA, University of Florida (1995)
History, High Honors (magna cum laude)
Academic Awards
Phi Beta Kappa
Mortar Board Honor Society
Special Interests / Skills
Professional and Personal
Computational design, sonic and visual data expression, graphic and interaction design, location-aware applications, politics, history of the Americas, music performance and composition, sound design, and auto mechanics.
Programming, Design and Prototyping
Processing, Javascript, ActionScript 3.0, HTML5, CSS, Objective-C, Prototype, Scriptaculous, AJAX, JSON, XML, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Perl, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, FlashLite 2.0, ProTools and SONAR.