Adrián Maqueda

data visualizer

28 years old Madrid

Journalist turned programmer. I analyze and visualize data to make journalistic investigations easier to understand and lighter to read, even when they are built on thousands (MILLIONS!) of data points. In my spare time I build this website and tinker with things I find interesting. Since a picture visualization is worth a thousand words, you can explore a collection of work and visualizations I've enjoyed making.

Awards & recognition

Workshops & talks

Public data visualization in action Commit Conf

2026

Show and tell: Algorithms x human creativity European Press Prize

2026

Investigating algorithms by land, sea and air Dataharvest

2026

Tracking fire in a hotter Europe: Methods for long-term wildfire data Dataharvest

2026

Introduction to Svelte 5 DVS Madrid

2025

Together at last: R and Python united in the Positron IDE Dataharvest

2025

Scraping with R and automation with GitHub 2nd R Conference in Spain

2023

Beyond bars and pie charts: creative and interactive data storytelling Dataharvest

2025

Climate data analysis Climate Arena Conference

2024

Where I've worked

Data analysis, visualization and front-end Civio

2023 - pres.

Data journalism lecturer Newtral Master's program

2022, 2023

Data journalist Newtral

2021-2023

Fact-checker Newtral

2020-2021

Education

Preparatory course for admission to the Master's in Data Science UOC (Open University of Catalonia)

2025-2026

Analyzing data, visualizing information, telling stories: introduction to data analysis and visualization with R Complutense University of Madrid Winter School

2022

Bachelor's degree in Journalism, specializing in Multimedia Journalism Francisco de Vitoria University (Madrid)

2015-2019

Master's in Investigative Journalism, Data and Visualization Unidad Editorial School of Journalism and Rey Juan Carlos University

2019-2020