MapCourt

I'm Court, and I design and develop data experiences. Click here to learn more about me.

My Data Design Manifesto

The principles that guide my approach to designing data experiences

Skills & Coursework

I keep a tool-agnostic mindset, but this is what I'm already handy with.

I have a master's degree in Digital Mapping.
Click for more info on my education background.

On Earth We Bleed

Made in QGIS. Displayed at Alternative Expression art exhibition, Brooklyn, March 2025.

Red world map with shading to show land elevation and ocean depths

Interactive Map Design

Olympic Medals Map

Interative map and table filterable by year, sport and event. Developed with Sveltekit.

Screenshot of Olympic Medals Count page with a world map of various shades of purple according to medal counts.

Personal Project

When Caitlin Clark Comes to Town

Giant graphic showing home attendance of Iowa's Opponents in 2023-24. Click to see full version.

Thumbnail screenshot showing two charts labeled Iowa State and Wisconsin. Both charts show gray bars for each home game for the respective school with a yellow bar highlighted to show the spike in attendance when Iowa is the visiting team.

The Kentucky River

Artistic river mapping. Made in QGIS.

Black background with white river networks with a marker for High Bridge Park and text 'weep no more my lady

Interactive Map Design

Power Plants Map

Interactive map with multiple layers of data, made with d3

Thumbnail showing a map of the United States, covers in circles of various sizes and colors (mostly pink). States themselves are colored on a scale of white to light green to dark green, depending on millions of metric tons of waste.

Dataset Creation

The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

I created a dataset of over 15,000 books which powered a behind-the-scenes submission form for this project.

Graphic says 'The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century' surrounded by various books including The Emperor of Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Return by Hisham Matar, On Beauty by Zadie Smith, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, The Sympathizer by Viet Thank Nguyen, how to be both by Ali Smith, Pulphead Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan and Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward, and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.

Geospatial Data Analysis

Yellow Cab Pickups

Data map. Analyzed with geopandas. Designed with Affinity Designer.

Map titled Yellow Cab Pickups. In September alone, 3.4 million yellow cab trips began in Manhattan. Hotspots, of course, include the Times Square and Central Park areas. Map shows taxi zones of Manhattan with different levels of shading to indicate taxi pickups.

Personal Project

Sveltekit Library Development

Svelte + Mapbox GL JS Component Library

Presented via Storybook

A pastel, glowy Earth. The sky is pink, the earth is white and light purple, and the Earth's atmosphere is glowing yellow and blue.

Artistic Map (Blender 3D)

Appalachian Foothills

Made in Blender + QGIS

bright pink 3d terrain showing a relatively flat area next to a hilly area

Personal Project

Data Design & Analysis

How Big Is Taylor Swift?

An in-depth analysis of a hard-to-quantify metric: fame.

Thumbnail showing two charts labeled The Beatles and Taylor Swift, showing orange and black circles. The Beatles chart runs from 1963 to 1970, and the Taylor Swift chart from 2007 to 2024. The metric being shown is not labeled in this thumbnail version.

Interactive Map

Interactive Cluster Markers

Traffic signals in Austin, TX

A map of the number of traffic signals in Austin City districts, with numbers in circles representing clusters of data

Interactive data design

Women's World Cup 2023

How Teams Can Advance to the Round of 16

Thumbnail of a table titled 'Women's World Cup 2023: How Teams Can Advance to the Round of 16' with each competing country listed in groups and showing their points. Details are not easily readable in thumbnail image.

Documentation, Tutorial Guide

A Journalist's Guide to Styling geoTIFFs for the Web

How I made the Miami flood map from raster data

Screenshot from tutorial showing a top bar navigation selection in GIS software.

Interactive Web Map

Education and Gender in Kenya Map

Screenshot of zoomed in map showing circles by size of students enrolled by county. Also shows tooltip showing a trend line for girls vs. boys in grades 1-8. Not easily readable in thumbnail version here.

Geospatial Analysis + Raster Data for the Web

Where is Miami-Dade County Hottest?

Visualizing NASA Earth Data

A map of Miami-Dade County showing various color shades on a gradient from light orange to dark purple. The northeast area is byfar the darkest region of the map.

Personal Project

Interactive Map & Geospatial Analysis

Historically Redlined Districts Bear the Brunt of the Heat

A scrollytelling map of historic HOLC grades and land surface temperature in Miami

Thumbnail of a map showing a section of coast. Over the water is a textbox that says 'HOLC grade D' and the land regions shows areas outlined with a redline, filled with light blue, light red or dark red (mostly red).

Personal project

How to Read a Hearing Test

A chart showing regions of a hearing test that indicate normal, mild, moderate, moderately severe, severe or profound hearing loss. The x-axis shows frequency in hertz, and the y-axis shows decibels.

In Reversal Because of A.I., Office Jobs Are Now More at Risk

As seen on the front page of the New York Times print edition

A chart titled 'College Educated Workers are Most Exposed to A.I.' The subtitle reads 'Researchers at OpenAI estimated the share of tasks in each occupation that could be assisted by A.I. tools.' The charts shows that jobs that often require a high school diploma or less (like sewing machine operators, dry cleaners, fast-food workers) share 6% of job tasks potentially aided by A.I. Jobs that often require a high school diploma (such as manicurists and pedicurists, actors and security guards) share 17% of job tasks potentially aided by A.I. Vocation or 2-year degree jobs (such as electricians, paramedics and facilities managers) share 38% of job tasks; four-year degree jobs (such as nurses, nuclear engineers and human resources specialists) share 75% of job tasks and jobs that often require graduate school (such as pharmacists, psychiatrists and lawyers) share 64% of job tasks potentially aided by A.I. The percentage shown is the median percentage by education category. Data source is OpenAI (for ratings) and the Labor Department (for job categories). By The New York Times.

Studying the Limits of Human Perfection, Through Darts

Graphic titled 'Precision of a Champion' is zoomed in to the triple-20 region. Subtitle is 'In a world championship final this year, Michael Smith hit the triple-20 region 46 percent of the time he aimed at it. Dozens of throws are shown, and those in the triple-20 region are red, while others are gray. The following notes are listed at bottom of graphic. The data shown is from the 2023 F.D.C. World Championship. Only darts targeted at the triple-20 region shown. Data manually plotted from a television broadcast. By The New York Times.

Interactive Tour of Oxford University

Using IIIF (International Image Interoperability, Framework) technology to explore a historic map

Zoomed in thumbnail from historic map of the city of Oxford, showing concentric Radcliffe Camera library and surrounding area.

Graphic for politics newsletter by Nate Cohn

A chart titled 'When 2024 Republican Delegates Will Be Awarded.' Subtitle is: 'About two-thirds of the delegates to the Republican convention could be awarded during the election subversion trial in Washington, which is expected to begin March 4.Chart shows the following. Before trial: 10 percent of delegates; during trial: 65 to 71 percent of delegates; after trial: 19 to 25 percent of delegates. Not at bottom of chart: For a trial lasting four to six weeks starting March 4. Source: The Green Papers. Chart by Courtney Cox.

Interactive map in scrollytelling story

Kentucky's Opioid Crisis

Featuring an interactive map of pills dispensed by pharmacy per county resident

A map of Kentucky made up of red circle outlines of various sizes

The Places Most Affected by Remote Workers' Moves Around the Country

Graphic created together with Aatish Bhatia

Chart titled 'New York Metro Area' with subtitle 'Net domestic migration of workers.' Prepandemic (2018-19) shows negative 147,000 in-person workers and negative 25,000 remote workers. Pandemic (2020-21) shows negative 172,000 in-person workers and 116,000 remote workers. Annotation says 'The N.Y.C. metro area lost many more remote workers during the pandemic.' Data source: Upshot analysis of American Community Survey data. Limited to metros of more than 250,000 residents.

A weekly history game

North American Breweries

A map of breweries in North America and Hawaii, showing darker colors where there are lots of breweries within 50 square kilometers, and lighter colors with fewer. The darkest color shows areas where there are 50 or more breweries. Darker areas are noticeable in California, the northeast and the Chicago area.

How Polls Have Changed Since the State of the Union Address

Table made for The Tilt, Nate Cohn's newsletter

Thumbnail of a table listing 16 pollsters and the Trump/Biden margin before and after since State of the Union address. Also shows percent point change between before and after. Averages are Trump +2 for before, Trump + <1 for after, with a 1.4 point average increase for Democrats overall.

Data Wrangling and Design

Visualizing Campaign Finance

Interactive visualization showing funds received by Crist and Desantis each day from Jan. 2021 through Oct. 2022

Thumbnail image titled 'Campaign Finance Received By Crist and DeSantis Each Day Since January 2021. Subtitle reads 'Bubbles are scaled to contribution size. Hover over each bubble for exact dollar amount. Chart shows significantly larger and more numerous bubbles for DeSantis than Crist.