About
Irwin Chen
As Director of Visualization Design at the Mintz Group, I create interactive visualizations to show relationship networks, untangle transaction flows, and map changes over time and location for cases concerning financial fraud, kleptocracy, and other acts of misconduct. I am currently experimenting with Frontier and Local LLMs to see how they can be reliably used for OSINT investigations, coding, and data visualization.
In the academic realm, I am continuing systems research with Heather Chaplin, started back in 2014 at the Journalism + Design Program at The New School where I served as Design Lead, centered around wicked problems and developing a system map of the forces surrounding the free press, democracy, and media policy.
I have made an iOS game (Kleptocrat) and a TableTop RolePlaying Game for parents and kids. I also play chess and am particularly intrigued by the insights we can gain from observing how neural networks approach playing chess and other games.
I currently run the Mastodon instance, Saturation.social.
I live in Brooklyn, NY with my partner, our two sons, and a cat.