Portfolio

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY MAP.

ALL (categories) | Award-Winning
• By Region: Global | China | U.S. | GA | WI | Madison
• By Topic: Disaster | Hurricane | Covid | University | History
• By Purpose: Research | Course | News | Education | Personal
• By Design: LEGO | Terrain | Trajectory | Stylized | Special Projection
• By Collaboration: UW Cartography Lab | Teamwork
• By Language: English | Chinese | Bilingual
• By Format: Web | Tangible | Series

—— Reference Map ——

Land Flowing with
Milk and Honey

A non-political and
non-religious map
calling for peace in
Israel and Palestine

Zibo Map of Culture
and Tourism

Best Cartographic Design in
2023 NACIS Map Competition;
Atlas of Design Vol.7; Cartography
SIG Excellence Award in Esri UC

Trilingual Map of
Taiwan, “Scenic
Formosa Island”

Most Innovative Map and
Cartography Excellent Award
in 2023 Esri User Conference

—— Thematic Map ——

United States of
Blooming Risks

An Aggregated Mosaic of
FEMA National Risk Index
of 18 Natural Hazards;
(Display on NACIS 2024)

United States of
Natural Disasters

Best Cartography Award,
Most Innovative Map in Esri UC;
Runner-Up in WLIA and BCS;
Featured on "maps.com"

Visualizing
Historical
Hurricanes in
Contiguous U.S.

Best Print Map in 2022
CaGIS Map Competition

—— Research Map ——

Multimodal Social
Media Data Learning
and Visualization
for Hurricanes

Research poster presented on
CaGIS + UCGIS Symposium 2024

Revealing
Hurricane
Harvey 2017

Geovisualization of twitter-
based trajectories;
on Esri Map Book Vol.39

Twitter's Gender
Representativeness
Evaluation

UCGIS Poster Presentation
for evaluating the gender
representativeness of twitter

—— Hurricane Map ——

Active Hurricane
Tracker

A practical web app tracking
global active tropical cyclones for
emergency use with cartographic
and meteorological considerations

Identifying Places with
Power Outages after
Hurricane Helene

Based on comparison
of satellite images before
and after the storm

Rescaled Symbol
Design for
Trajectories

Innovative twitter-based
visualization of 2017
Hurricane Harvey

—— LEGO Style Map ——

LEGO Map of
North America

3D topographic/bathymetric
map of North America
on 48*48 LEGO baseplate
(Display on NACIS 2024)

Physical Geography
of New Zealand
in LEGO Style

Displayed on Map Exhibition of
GeoCart'2024, New Zealand's
National Cartographic Conference

Physical Geography
of Arizona
in LEGO Style

3D rendered graphics with labels;
winner of college student project,
AGIC Symposium Maps Contest

LEGO Style
Topographic
Map of Georgia

Minimalism topographic
map of Georgia with labels
(one dot represents 8*8 sq mi)

LEGO Map of
Colorado

Winner of Student
Artistic Section in
GISCO Mapping Contest;
one brick = 10 sq mi

LEGO Map of
Wisconsin

Featured in Esri UC Plenary Session;
Most Unique Map, Best Student Map,
President’s Choice, People’s Choice
(Adult) in WLIA 2024 Map Contest

—— News Map ——

Map Series of
Global News

Serving MADNEWS articles;
Mapping area includes
Turkey, Israel/Palestine,
Ukraine, China, Egypt

Map Series of
Domestic News

Serving MADNEWS articles;
Mapping area includes
southeastern U.S., Texas,
Oklahoma, entire U.S.

Map Series of
Local News
(Madison Area)

Serving MADNEWS articles;
Topic includes covid, assault, event,
administration, political protest

—— Historical Map ——

Historic Railroads in Menominee and Shawano Counties, WI

CartLab client project
with Shawano County
Friends of Mountain Bay Trail

"Early Chinese
Badgers in Madison"
Campus Tour Map

Guidebook for family members of
past Chinese alumni hosted by
Center for East Asian Studies

"Early Chinese
Badgers (1907-1920)"
Static and Interactive
Map Series

Visualizing hometown and Madison
address of UW Chinese alumni

—— Web Application ——

UNDP SIDS
Geospatial
Dashboard

Participated Mapbox-based
web map development
during internship at UNDP

Madison Area
and Wisconsin
Covid Pandemic
Dashboards

Honorable Mention, Digital Map
Award in 48th CaGIS Map Competition

U.S. Historical
Hurricanes Geovisualization

Group project of interactive
map application based on
Leaflet and D3 package

—— Web Map ——

Ancient Chinese
Style Web Map

Basemap design with
ancient Chinese fonts, icons,
and color scheme
based on Mapbox Studio

"Not Gone
with the Wind"
Esri Storymap

A story of the unexpected
Hurricane Harvey using
Esri StoryMaps narrative

Harry Potter
Themed
Web Map

Mapbox-based customized
web map with H.P. related
sites in the U.K.

—— Covid Map ——

Mapping Twitter
Sentiments
Towards Covid

Value-by-alpha map of
sentiments with twitter
representativeness level

Georgia Fights
Against Covid

Bivariate choropleth map
visualizing the covid case
per capita v.s. vaccination
rate in recent week

Mapping Twitter
User Trajectories
During Covid-19

Exploration with 5 million
trajectories regarding covid-19
using Kepler.gl tool

—— CartLab Design Challenge (1-Day) ——

Mapping U.S.
Historical
Lynchings

Tangible and digital flow maps
of incident sites and news;
2024 Design Challenge

Evolution of
the Great Plains

Animations of subtle
topography on surface of
loess tableland in Nebraska;
2023 Design Challenge

Thematic Map
Type ABCs
Through Games

Cartography Curriculum
Design for K5 Education;
2022 Design Challenge

—— Map Series ——

A Mini Gallery
of LEGO Style
Topographic Maps

Assorted LEGO Style maps
with various design styles
(Display on NACIS 2024)

Map Products
during Internship
at Institute for
Local Self-Reliance

67 Static Maps of various
types in multiple projects

Static Map Series
for Covid-19
Pandemics in
Madison Area

Over 800 daily infographics
with maps for MADNEWS

—— Local Map ——

Unlock Madison
by Bike

Mapping my yearly
cycling/scooting tracks
in Madison and vicinity
(Sep 2023 - Aug 2024)

Bilingual Map of
Athens (GA)
and Vicinity

Practically serving Chinese
student communities at
the University of Georgia

Heart Shape
Dual Maps

Romantic graphic design
of dual cities (both U.S.
and hometown in China)
with same map scale

—— Personal Map ——

Map of Lifetime
Footprint in
Memory of My
Grandfather

Best Black & White Map in WLIA
2024; Grayscale memorial map

Hilarious "Home
Metro Map"

Innovative graphic design of
transit map in memory of 2020
home quarantine days
within apartment unit

"When Badger
Meets Bulldog"

Personal map product
illustrating my past and future
road trip routes between
UW-Madison and UGA

—— Fun Map ——

Great North
American Eclipse
on 4.8.2024

1st Place of Student Maps
(University and Postgraduates)
in Esri UC 2024 Map Gallery

"The United States of Wisconsin"

Re-structure the de-structured U.S. states into Wisconsin;
1-hour map collage activity
during NACIS 2023

"Madison and
Vicinity" Quilt

Contributing categorical
dot density map using
pricing stickers for a tangible
Map Quilt Challenge project

—— Artistic Map ——

Instagram Account
@AI.MAPS Posting
AI-Generated Maps

Maps include geographic faults;
simply enjoy but do not
use for reference purpose

Hand-drawn
Watercolor Maps
with Calligraphy

Beginner's exercise
painting of Canada,
Hawaii, Madison, and more

Map-making in
Seal-Carving
Calligraphy

Engraving maps on sealstone
material as image stamps:
China, Wisconsin, and Zibo

—— Craft Map ——

Applique T-Shirt
with Abstract
Geometry of
Wisconsin

Quick craft at Wisconsin
Union Wheelhouse Studios

Wisconsin Map
on Solar Printed
Cotton Bandana

Made with local flowers
and fronds during a
bike-and-craft activity

Halloween World
Map on Pumpkin

Carving Robinson Projection
map onto ellipsoid (pumpkin),
compromising between
3D globe and flat surface


As an "Atlas", I keep enriching myself.