The Stories

Questions I couldn’t stop asking

Each project began with a question about work, school, or survival, and ended as a visual story you can walk through.

  • Tomorrow’s Promise

    W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1900 data portraits, rebuilt with 150 years of Census data.

  • Resilience

    What 2.6 million words of testimony from formerly enslaved people say about endurance.

  • What names carry

    Names of enslaved people listed in ship manifests translated with a large language model.

  • Classroom dreams

    Common Core standards mapped to the careers students imagine for themselves.

  • Decoded Pathways

    Jobs, education, and career growth in the Black community, mapped by skills and wages.

  • Charting your future

    An interactive dashboard that matches a student’s interests to real occupations.

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© 2026 Camaal Moten. Original artwork, visualizations, and writing are my own. Third-party images and data are credited on each page and belong to their owners.