Irene De La Torre Arenas
Digital Designer at Financial Times
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolIrene De La Torre Arenas is a Digital Designer with a decade of experience crafting data-driven storytelling for organizations like the Financial Times, UCB Biopharma, BBC News and the MIT Senseable City Lab. She blends journalism, advertising and an MFA in Information Design to turn complex datasets into clear, elegant static and interactive visuals, often collaborating closely with researchers and engineers. At UCB she co-led a visualization enabler to scale best practices across the organization, building templates, palettes and trainings that boosted teams’ self-sufficiency. Her award-winning master’s thesis on motion in visualizations reflects a rare focus on animated data narratives as a communicative tool. Based in Madrid, she pairs hands-on coding and prototyping with editorial sensibility, frequently teaching and producing educational materials for university courses. Colleagues describe her as a storyteller-designer-coder who thrives on teaching others and learning new techniques.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Master in 3d Animation Digital Post-production and no Lineal Edition 3d Animation Modelling Rigging Composition, Professional Master in 3d Animation Digital Post-production and no Lineal Edition 3d Animation Modelling Rigging Composition at CICE Escuela Profesional de Nuevas TecnologíasLicentiate degree Journalism, Licentiate degree Journalism at Södertörn UniversityMFA Information Design and Visualization Design and visual communication, MFA Information Design and Visualization Design and visual communication at Northeastern UniversityLicentiate degree Advertising and Public Relations, Licentiate degree Advertising and Public Relations at Universidad Rey Juan CarlosCharles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Introduction to Quantitative Methods - Summer Course Estadística, Introduction to Quantitative Methods - Summer Course Estadística at Harvard Extension School
Spanish, English, German
Github Skills (25)
svg8
api8
visualization8
exploratory8
charts7
vector6
data-visualization6
tiles6
javascript6
maps5
3d5
geojson5
browser5
mapbox-gl5
mapbox-gl-js5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
irenedelatorre/Tokyo_Streets
Jun 2021 - Feb 2025
Project for the University of Tokyo
Contributions:1 release, 14 PRs, 30 pushes in 3 years 8 months
tokyo
irenedelatorre/swimming-records
Dec 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 31 pushes, 6 branches in 10 months
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