Visual journalism / cartography / tools
Luis Sevillano
I make visual journalism for newsrooms: maps, data analysis, cartography and editorial tools. This site is a working index of selected stories, technical notes and newsroom experiments.
Selected work
A selection of stories that combine reporting, cartography, data and visual explanation.
- From war to your home: how conflict scrap feeds steel El País· Cartography / Data analysis investigation
- Four years of war in Ukraine: a front that barely moves El País· Cartography / Data analysis explainer
- Paiporta flood simulation: predictable, devastating, fast El País· Data analysis / Cartography explainer
- The center of the world crumbles like a cookie Personal publication· Data analysis / Cartography explainer
- Melilla border tragedy: step by step El País· Visual forensics / Cartography investigation
Recent work
A running archive of recently published stories, experiments and visual analysis.
- A week of war in Iran: mapping the escalation and response El País· Cartography / Data analysis explainer
- Hormuz under threat: tanker traffic and chokepoints El País· Cartography / Data analysis explainer
- Aragon election results, street by street El País· Cartography / Frontend development tracker
- 358,000 hectares in 15 days: Spain's wildfire peak El País· Cartography / Data analysis explainer
- Paiporta under water: reconstructing a deadly flood El País· 3D recreation / Data analysis investigation
- Ukraine war fronts after the Kursk offensive El País· Cartography / Data analysis explainer
Tools & teaching
Internal tools, reusable workflows and teaching materials developed for newsrooms and visual journalists.
- Relievo: automated shaded relief maps from the command line Personal publication· Tool development / Cartography tool
- Cheesy Shadow Picker v2 Personal publication· Product design / Frontend development tool
- Mapbox inset map Observable· Tool development tool
- Inset Map Creator Personal publication· Tool development / Cartography tool
- Scaling artboards for ai2html Observable· Tool development tool
- GIS should be a must in newsrooms Personal publication· Data analysis / Cartography case-study
