Xaquín Veira
Adjunct Professor at The Straits Times
Girona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolXaquín Veira is a Galician visual journalist, adjunct professor, and co-founder of the Visualization for Transparency Foundation with nine years of recent professional experience building award-winning data-driven narratives. He blends reporting, design and self-taught coding to create interactive storytelling and visual explanations, having led visual teams at The Guardian, National Geographic and The New York Times. A decorated practitioner—over 50 Malofiej honors, a Peter Sullivan Best in Show, multiple SND, ONA and Webby recognitions, four Emmy nominations, and part of the 2013 Pulitzer-winning iEconomy team—he specializes in emotional connections, automation, and narrative devices in visualization. He consults and mentors newsrooms worldwide (The Straits Times, Guardian Visuals alumni) while teaching information design and running workshops from New York to Colombia. Based in Girona, he combines academic rigor (PhD work in computer engineering) with newsroom pragmatism to turn complex open data into compelling, transparent storytelling. Outside work he’s a devoted husband and father whose practical experience reshapes how organizations use visualization for accountability.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Journalism (Online Media), B.A., Journalism (Online Media) at Universidad de Santiago de CompostelaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Universitat de Girona
Spanish, portuguese/galego, English
Github Skills (6)
open-data8
rollout8
visualization7
data-visualization6
python3
svelte2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xaquingv/xocasdocs
Mar 2017 - Jun 2020
Fork of NYT's Driveshaft to use in my own projects
Contributions:3 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
nyt
fndvit/covid-vaccination-tracker
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Data and visualization tracking the progress of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Spain
Contributions:214 commits, 3 PRs, 128 pushes in 1 year 5 months
data-and-visualizationvaccinerollouttrackingcovid-19-vaccine
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