Hello world!

I'm Zhengyan Yu.


I'm an information designer and data analyst who love to explore the meaning and beauty of data. Before studying information design, I got an Economic master degree and worked in economic academia, public relation, and journalism.


Portfolio Résumé



Using data analysis and visualization to improve safety

Personal course work + team contest

A poster visualizes car accidents data of USA and tries to explain why some states are more dangerous than others.
The data analysis is used for supporting a product which is used to decrease the car accidents.


data analysis

data visualization

R

Qgis

Adobe Illustrator

product design



see project

Roadmap System

Intenrship's project @Philips

A design system helps users to create consistent and understandable roadmaps.


design research

info design

design guideline

user experience



see project






Fortune 500 visualization

IEEE PacificVis Storytelling Contest Final List

An interactive visualization shows the rise and fall of the Greater China's economy. The data is based on the perspective of view of enterprise ranking.


data visualization

economics

d3.js

storytelling



see project

Dashboard

Personal project

A dashboard uses data from Instagram and creates custom data visualization.


UIUX

data visualization

prototype

sketch



see project

Media usage

Course work

An inforgrphic visualizes my personal data from one week.


info design

Adobe Illustrator

infographic



see project

Renting in Boston

Course work

An interactive visualization uses Airbnb data and scrolling to tell the story about renting in Boston.


data visualization

data analysis

d3.js

storytelling



see project

Greece data

Course work

An infographic uses "isometric" technique to visualize the geographic, communicational, and urban data of Greece.


info design

isometric

Adobe Illustrator

infographic



see project