Joby Live Telemetry Joby Aviation
Real-time flight data from the S4 aircraft, inspired by SpaceX launch telemetry, rendered live on a 25-foot screen at a hangar in Marina, CA.
Adam Krebs
is a builder.
Maps, data visualization & very large screens. Creative Technical Director at Joby Aviation. Previously: Sidewalk Labs, Uber (kepler.gl), and Two-N.
Selected work · 2014 → present
01 02 Kepler.gl Uber
A tool for exploring large-scale geospatial datasets, built on deck.gl with custom GPGPU shaders. I wrote the k-nearest-neighbors clustering, brushable arcs, and timeline playback. Winner, 2018 Information is Beautiful Awards.
03 Uber Movement Uber
Uber's bike-share data application for city planners, with privacy-aware H3 aggregation and a custom WebGL shader for brushable pickup-to-dropoff arcs.
04 Future of Food Uber
A realtime thirty-foot 3D globe of live Uber Eats orders, centerpiece of the 2019 Future of Food conference in Hong Kong. The design now greets visitors in Uber lobbies worldwide.
05 Delve Sidewalk Labs
Generative design for cities and neighborhoods at an Alphabet company, using machine learning, constraint optimization, and WebGL maps.
06 World Gender Gap Two-N
A scrollytelling graphic of ten years of World Economic Forum gender gap data, designed around object constancy across chart types. Webby nominee; shortlisted for Information is Beautiful.
07 Athena Healthcare Two-N
Every transaction in the Athena network — ETL, geocoding, clustering, and a fully text-searchable map. I presented the geospatial techniques at the United Nations.
08 RARE Two-N
A survey-data visualization tool for IPG Mediabrands, designed around fluid motion as filters change and touchpoint paths redraw.
09 Talent Lab Two-N
Clustering arbitrary organization data across dimensions and projections, keeping every mark consistent as the coordinate space changes. 2016 Webby nominee.
10 CityBeat Cornell Tech
Real-time news mined from geotagged social media, presented as radar pings on a six-foot screen for the Jacobs Institute.
