Dylan Wootton
Visualization Researcher
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDylan Wootton is a visualization researcher and PhD student at MIT with eight years of experience building data-driven tools that make analysis both rigorous and enjoyable. He blends human-computer interaction research with hands-on engineering—shipping dashboards and exploratory tools using d3.js, Leaflet, Python, R, NumPy, and Pandas for projects ranging from browser telemetry at Microsoft to air-quality event detection with the Visualization Design Lab. His work emphasizes designing visualizations that support sound decision-making and guard against faulty analysis practices. With a bioengineering and computational background, he often bridges wet-lab datasets and interactive visual systems, and he volunteers mentoring LGBTQ+ students interested in tech.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe University of Utah
Stackoverflow
23reputation
381reached
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Github Skills (125)
hotjar10
vega10
replay10
charts10
plot10
vega-lite10
recorder10
visualization10
grammar10
fullstory10
session-replay9
logrocket9
react-components9
component-library9
svg9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dwootton/vgx
Jan 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:40 PRs, 35 pushes, 21 branches in 2 months
visdesignlab/reVISit
May 2020 - Sep 2020
This is the repository for us to collaborate on code for the provenance data anl
Contributions:176 commits in 4 months
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