We take on analysis, visualisation, and visual-storytelling commissions for organisations with a dataset, a finding, or an argument that deserves to be seen rather than summarised.
The Aporia visual essays and the interactive projects on this site are made with our own open-source tools. The same craft is available to you.
What a commission looks like
A commission might be a single interactive chart, a scrollable data essay, or a standalone microsite. We handle the work end to end:
- The analysis. Cleaning, modelling, and interrogating the data — computational text analysis, semantic networks, temporal change, personality and rhetoric, geographic and network structure.
- The narrative. Finding the argument the data can actually support, and the honest shape of the uncertainty around it.
- The build. Designing and engineering the final artefact, from a publication-ready figure to a fully interactive web piece.
How we work
We are candid early about what the data can and cannot show — before the design work begins, not after. We scope each commission to a clear deliverable and a clear question, and we build on tooling we maintain ourselves, so the methods behind a piece are transparent and reproducible.
Our open-source libraries — chronowords for semantic shift over time and kenon for co-occurrence networks — often do the analytical heavy lifting, which means the work is auditable and the results are yours.
Who it is for
Newsrooms, research institutions, foundations, and companies sitting on a dataset or a result that matters and is not yet legible to the people who need to act on it.
Begin with a conversation
Tell us what you have in mind — or send us a dataset and a question. A short call is the quickest way to tell whether we can help.
Book a 15-min call Send a message
Or write to hello@crowintelligence.org.