Sam Vickars
Design Director at The DataFace
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolSam Vickars is a design director who transforms complex data into elegant visual narratives, specializing in maps, interactive tools, and experiential data viz. With nine years of experience and a Master’s in Data Visualization from Parsons (4.0), he blends architectural thinking from a BArch with rigorous design and technical craft. At The DataFace he progressed from developer to design manager and now leads as Design Director, shipping data-driven products and collaborations with outlets like The Pudding and Quarto. Based in New Westminster, BC, Sam’s background across Toronto, Rome, London, and NYC informs a global, spatially-aware approach to storytelling that treats information as both art and utility. Notably, his path from architecture to data visualization gives him a rare ability to architect visual systems that scale both aesthetically and functionally.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Data Visualization, 4.0, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Data Visualization, 4.0 at Parsons School of Design - The New SchoolBachelor of Architecture (BArch), Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture (BArch), Architecture at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (7)
data-journalism10
figma10
nyc9
figma-plugin8
parser7
python5
javascript5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
svickars/portfolio
Jul 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 179 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
svickars/thesis
Jan 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:146 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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