About
Irwin Chen
 





  : irwin.chen@gmail.com
 Mastodon: @irwin@saturation.social

  
 As Director of Visualization Design at the Mintz Group, I create interactive visualizations using D3 to show relationship networks, untangling transaction flows, and mapping these changes over time 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.

See some examples of my visualization work >

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, centered around wicked problems and designing a system map of the forces surrounding the free press, democracy, and media policy.

Read some old articles I’ve written and other places I’ve appeared in print.

I currently run the Mastodon instance, Saturation.social. 

I live in Brooklyn, NY with my partner , our two sons, and a cat.