Anna Powell-Smith

Anna Powell-Smith

Hello! I'm a web developer who makes delightful things in modern JavaScript, Python and HTML. I like to build useful, elegant tools for a wide audience and tell stories with data. I'm not currently taking on new work, but if you're looking for web development or data visualisation, I can recommend mySociety.

Recent projects

Dress sizes

I decided it was too hard to work out your dress size in different shops. So I built an interactive visualisation to make it easier, using D3.js.

Screenshot of What Size Am I web app

It was featured in the Guardian, Daily Mail, the Mirror, the Economist, the Wall Street Journal and many other places.

Baby names

Inspired by the classic Baby Name Voyager visualisation, I made a tool to search baby name trends for England & Wales.

Screenshot of England & Wales Baby Names web app

It was featured in the Guardian, the Telegraph, the Economist, the Sun, and on BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Domesday Book

I made the folios of Domesday Book available online for the first time, published them under CC-BY-SA, and built an elegant front-end and API.

Screenshot of Domesday Book website

It was written about on the BBC, and the British Museum now uses the API.

House prices

I wondered how travel time to London affected house prices. So I calculated it for every UK station and graphed the commuter zone visually.

Screenshot of houses prices app

Search it to see your nearest station, or find out more about it from Nestoria or Kasabi.

Awards

In April 2012, my work on CycleStreets Mobile won "Best Lightweight Application" in Jakob Nielsen's user interfaces of the year.

More

Find me on LinkedIn, GitHub and Twitter or read my blog.