My name is Ben Matheson. I create custom websites and visualizations to clarify complex ideas.
I build interactive charts, immersive media, and explanatory storytelling made for small screen and big screens.
I'm always looking for interesting and meaningful projects.
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📬 New in 2025 - my monthly newsletter
On the “editorial calendar” for 2025→ 🏔️ Alpine maps, 📈 Alaska and Norway’s sovereign wealth funds, 🚗 85th percentile speed metrics, and my favorite 🏘️ design pattern.
Recent Work 📌🏗️
- A experimental SMS bot for hiking maps with Mapbox and Twilio
- documenting Alaska Governors' Wild Ride on Oil Prices
- 40 Years of Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividends Adjusted for Inflation. 💸 📈 a Quarto page.
A Few Favorites 🤩
About Ben Matheson
I am a web developer who builds websites and visualizations to bring complex topics to life. My clients include those who aim to:
- explain new academic research
- dig into public policy to a broader audience
- explore concepts with powerful maps 🌎
- deliver custom interactive web calculators and visualizations
My work is centers on a four-way venn diagram of: web development 🤝 design 🤝 storytelling 🤝 data analysis.
My favorite types of projects are curiousity-driven investigations and making use of untapped and often messy datasets.
🔨💻 My core data tools include R (+tidyverse, Quarto). For web, I love to use Mapbox-GL and D3, and Svelte.
I've worked with foundations, non-profits, city governments, and large universities.
At the start of my career, worked as a public radio reporter across rural Alaska and have covered the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race several times. ⛰️ I love getting into the backcountry for mountain biking, trail running, and cross-country skiing.🥵
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