Chris Almaguer Data visualization design

Data visualization

A Data Dive page from the Sacramento Business Journal - Local businesses slow to open and reopen in 2020, paired donut charts of reopenings against openings beside year-over-year bars by sector.

A published data page a week, four years, three mastheads.

Print ACBJ Published
The North America Gas Prices dashboard on a laptop resting on a concrete plinth - a dark continental map with a purple-to-amber price surface, beside a ranked panel of regional averages.

Live symbol map. Pulls current data, holds up on mobile.

Symbol map Live R

UI/UX

A deliberately blurred dashboard prototype. Panel structure and color remain; every figure and label is unreadable.

Healthcare dashboards

2022 - present

Fifty-plus executive dashboards, and the color standard under them.

Dashboard Design system Protected

WCAG ramps, CVD simulation, ΔE checking.

Heatmap Live JavaScript
TrackDash running on a phone mounted in a car at night, showing a five-minute speed trace beside the instrument cluster and the CarPlay screen.

TrackDash

CarPlay

The car's built-in screen, not the phone.

Mobile application Apple CarPlay In testing
The ASCII Glitch Camera App Store page on a phone: Michelangelo's David rendered as ASCII art in the icon and screenshots, on a dark product page.

ASCII Glitch Camera

iOS

Real-time ASCII from the camera feed.

Mobile application App Store
The MyBEATS EQ view in dark mode - a spatial audio stage with a positionable source, EQ and volume sliders, and a queue of tagged tracks along the top.

MyBEATS

In progress

A local 14B model tags 16,000 tracks for genre, mood and vibe. Offline, no API key.

macOS On-device AI Ollama
The DiskMap app with its scan-location dialog open, beside the Diskbot panel offering to analyse file names, sizes and dates but never file contents.

Disk Map

Utility

An AI advisor rates folders safe to delete. Reads metadata, never file contents.

macOS On-device AI Ollama

Editorial / Branding

A Los Canelo's Birria takeout bag, the circular mark printed in black and pink on white paper.

Logo and identity

2013 - 17

Identity systems for regional businesses.

BrandingOn request