Todd Vachon

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NewsWorks.org

Responsive web and interaction design for WHYY’s NewsWorks.org project.

NewsWorks.org
Philadelphia Schools Cheating Scandal

Data visualization showing the widespread scope of the Philadelphia School District’s problem with suspicious erasures on state standardized tests.

Philadelphia Schools Cheating Scandal
Philadelphia Renaissance charter schools

Click-to-zoom map of Philadelphia charter school catchment areas.

Philadelphia Renaissance charter schools
Death Valley

Selected images from Death Valley National Park, California

Death Valley
Cyber charter costs

Estimated costs of cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania school districts

Cyber charter costs
The Illustrator

A profile of medical illustrator Birck Cox published to accompany the radio story that aired on ‘The Pulse’ from WHYY 91FM.

The Illustrator
The Ornithologist

Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Sciences archives hide more than 200,000 bird specimens some of the oldest in the country. Here’s how they get there.

The Ornithologist
From your driveway to China

What happens to your recyclables after they get picked up at the curb.

From your driveway to China
Newman & Co.

What’s going to happen to that piece of paper you just discarded.

Newman & Co.
Baseball’s dirty little secret

Every Major League baseball put into play for the last 3/4 century has a secret connection to the Delaware River.

Baseball’s dirty little secret
Family Tree

Data visualization

Family Tree
The Instruments of Dr. Physick

Dr. Philip Syng Physick was a pioneering surgeon born during the American Revolution. But some of the instruments and methods he used are frightening by today’s standards.

The Instruments of Dr. Physick
A weeks worth of reading

Data visualization

A weeks worth of reading
The great horseshoe crab migration

The horseshoe crab and the red knot are interdependent species – scientists have realized in recent years just how interdependent.

The great horseshoe crab migration
Kensington dropouts

Data visualization

Kensington dropouts
How tax bills would change under AVI

Data visualization

How tax bills would change under AVI
Bat Killer

White-nose syndrome is wiping out bat populations across the U.S. – and scientists are racing to find out why.

Bat Killer
Fixing Philadelphia’s broken pipeline to college

Data visualization

Fixing Philadelphia’s broken pipeline to college
Snowflakes

A personal photographic project

Snowflakes
High School Public School Choice

Collaborative mapping project depicting the percentage of high school students attending neighborhood vs. charter schools.

High School Public School Choice
Leaves

A personal photographic project

Leaves
Elementary Public School Choice

Collaborative mapping project depicting the percentage of elementary school students attending neighborhood vs. charter schools.

Elementary Public School Choice
Portraits

Selected editorial portraits

Portraits

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