Mitchell Thorson

@mitchellthorson.com

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Data visualization engineer. Otherwise reading books, riding bikes, listening to music, or talking a walk. Brooklyn, NY mitchellthorson.com

A vinyl record. The artwork shows multiple musicians playing a live set in front of an audience in a black and white photograph. The artist is SML. The album title reads: Spontaneous Music Live
A close up of pink blossoms on a tree branch with a blue sky backdrop
A tree-covered hillside bathed in low sunset light. There is a golden glow where the sun hits the leafless trees on the mountain. The sky is partly cloudy, showing patches of pale blue sky.
A screenshot showing a score card at the end of a game. The score shown is 44.85 out of a possible 50 points. There is a caption that says "Tetrachromat or obsessive? Either way, maybe go outside." Then there is a url: dialed.gg
Photo of a dark green bike loaded up with racks, bags and camping gear. The bike is on a wooden bridge with a reservoir and forest in the background.
A map of Northwest Washington State, United States. The title reads "The Washington Floods Have Affected Communities in Varied Geographic Areas". The map highlights five counties: Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish, King, and Pierce. It shows several towns within these counties: Sumas, Burlington, Mount Vernon, Canyon Creek, Everett, Seattle, Kent, and Pacific. The map also highlights several of the region's rivers: Nooksack river, Skagit River, Snohomish River, Snoqualmie River, Green River, and White River. The maps shows the area that is predicted to see catastrophic flooding that includes Burlington, Mount Vernon, Canyon Creek and Everett. The map lists the following sources: Counties and places from US Census Bureau TIGER/Line files. Rivers from the Washington State Department of Ecology. Predicted catastrophic flooding areas from the National Weather Prediction Service's three-day flood hazard outlook on December 12, 2025.
A screenshot of a bare bones UI for logging in with an atproto/bluesky account. The input element is filled with the author's handle (mitchellthorson.com) and there is a blue "Login" button beside the input. The text above the input reads "Sign in with your AT Protocol account (Bluesky).
A screenshot of a New York city map showing vote margins by election district in the 2025 mayoral election.
A screenshot of a New York city map showing vote margins by election district in the 2025 mayoral election.
A photo of a creek surrounded by trees and vegetation. The leaves of the trees have turned autumnal colors. The sky is blue with some clouds.
A selfie of the author sitting in an Amtrak train car. Natural light from the window illuminates the scene. The subject is wearing a bright green hat.
The image is a screenshot of a Github release page listing new features for the latest release of the @urbaninstitute/dataviz-component-library package. The changes list reads: Fix: Typo; Theme size for h2 on smaller screens now renders at proper font size Breaking: now accepts snippet props for custom background/foreground content and replaces getContext("scrolly") stores with the new useScrollyContext() helper; update slot markup and context access accordingly. Breaking: SVGMap and its layer components now expose pointer interaction callbacks via props (onclick/onmousemove/onmouseout/onbgclick) instead of on:event listeners, and shared state is provided through useSVGMapContext()—replace any getContext("map") usage and update handler wiring. Breaking: DatawrapperIframe emits interaction hooks through lowercase callback props such as onvisrendered/onregionclick instead of Svelte on:event listeners; pass handler functions as props to receive chart events. Breaking: The exported pymChildStore writable has been removed in favor of the rune-based usePymChildContext() helper returned by ; import usePymChildContext() to interact with the active pym.js child instance. Feat: All components use Svelte 5 runes syntax and move away from store-based state where possible.
The image shows a line chart displaying state-level data for the average monthly price of rent. There is 1 line for each state, plus the District of Columbia and the national average. Ohio is highlighted, as it trends steadily upward across the chart.
A map of United States counties showing the number of diapers needed to fill the gap faced by families with young children and low-to-moderate incomes each year. Urban areas and large cities are shaded darkly, indicating a large amount of need, while rural areas also indicate the presence of a gap.
A county-level map of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida showing the number of major natural disasters since Katrina. The text reads: Every County in the Gulf Coast Has Suffered at Least 3 Major Disasters since Katrina, and Many Have Experienced 10 or More Major disaster declarations by county, 2005–24 Source: Federal Emergency Management Agency, “OpenFEMA Dataset: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2”, accessed July 18, 2025, https://www.fema.gov/openfema-data-page/disaster-declarations-summaries-v2. Notes: Only major disaster declarations (DR) for natural hazard events are included in this analysis.
Screenshot of a series of data visualizations. There are three metrics displayed: Share of students in grade 3 who meet grade-level standards in math, and in language arts, as well as the share of students in grade 8 who meet grade-level standards in math. For each metric, there is a line chart showing the trend from 2013 through 2020 for Cook County, Illinois, the state of Illinois, and the U.S. as a nation.
A view of New York City looking downtown from the top of Rockefeller Center. The Empire State Building rises prominently in the center of the frame.
A visualization showing the path of microplastics as they travel through the ocean from Singapore to the Indian Garbage Patch.
A screenshot from the video game Dark Souls showing the Sun glowing over the city of Anor Londo
A screenshot of a Github diff showing updates to Svelte-related dependencies in a package.json file.
A hex map of the United States shows the percent change in individuals who would have health insurance if enhanced PTCs are allowed to expire at the end of 2025 by state.
A selfie of the author in Lincoln Park in front of the of the Chicago Skyline.
A photo of cyclists waiting to cross an Avenue in New York City.
An area chart that shows the distribution of family wealth in the U.S. in 2022. The x axis shows the percentile in terms of wealth and the y axis shows wealth in USD. There is a sharp increase in the level of wealth concentrated near the upper end of the distribution.
Photo of a bike in front of an old wooden structure with a sign that reads “OCA”
A stacked area chart displaying credit amount by income level for the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit.
A photo of the cover of the book "How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World" by Deb Chachra