Intraparallel
A research and engineering studio that creates interactive spatial visualizations, human computer interaction, and complex systems. Our Engineering Department runs on the philosophy of "Orbis Non Sufficit"
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500 Marquette Ave, Ste. 2
Albuquerque, NM USA
[email protected]
About
Intraparallel is a transdisciplinary advisory and research studio built on the premise that every system is a product of its externalities. Policy, economics, technology, geography, conflict: these do not exist in isolation, and the studio treats them accordingly. Negative capability sits at the center of the practice, holding complexity open rather than collapsing it into premature resolution, because the structure of a problem only reveals itself under sustained investigation. The studio is led by Caden Dixon.
The work moves through fluid intelligence and System 2 analysis. Census tables become spatial narratives. Trade flows become interactive systems. Economic indicators become instruments that surface structural patterns otherwise buried in raw numbers. Geospatial research, data visualization, interactive cartography, human-computer interaction, computational design, and full-stack engineering converge not as separate services but as a single investigative apparatus applied to problems of sufficient depth. The distance between a consequential dataset and genuine comprehension is a design problem, and the most consequential datasets are almost always the least accessible.
Contact
500 Marquette Ave, Ste. 2
Albuquerque, NM USA
[email protected]
About
Intraparallel is a transdisciplinary advisory and research studio built on the premise that every system is a product of its externalities. Policy, economics, technology, geography, conflict: these do not exist in isolation, and the studio treats them accordingly. Negative capability sits at the center of the practice, holding complexity open rather than collapsing it into premature resolution, because the structure of a problem only reveals itself under sustained investigation. The studio is led by Caden Dixon.
The work moves through fluid intelligence and System 2 analysis. Census tables become spatial narratives. Trade flows become interactive systems. Economic indicators become instruments that surface structural patterns otherwise buried in raw numbers. Geospatial research, data visualization, interactive cartography, human-computer interaction, computational design, and full-stack engineering converge not as separate services but as a single investigative apparatus applied to problems of sufficient depth. The distance between a consequential dataset and genuine comprehension is a design problem, and the most consequential datasets are almost always the least accessible.
The process is research-driven, computationally intensive, and built to scale, from single-page D3 visualizations to full geospatial pipelines processing millions of census blocks. Collaborators enter as full technical partners, embedded in research workflows from the earliest possible stage. Depending on scope, the studio draws on a network of engineers, cartographers, and domain specialists. Every engagement begins from the problem’s own logic, follows its externalities across whatever disciplinary boundaries they cross, and produces solutions that did not previously exist in the problem space.
Contact
500 Marquette Ave, Ste. 2
Albuquerque, NM USA
[email protected]
About
Intraparallel is a transdisciplinary advisory and research studio built on the premise that every system is a product of its externalities. Policy, economics, technology, geography, conflict: these do not exist in isolation, and the studio treats them accordingly. Negative capability sits at the center of the practice, holding complexity open rather than collapsing it into premature resolution, because the structure of a problem only reveals itself under sustained investigation. The studio is led by Caden Dixon.
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D3.js, MapLibre GL, DuckDB, Protomaps, GeoPandas, Deck.gl, Reuters Graphics, Three.js, Cloudflare, U.S. Census Bureau, LODES/LEHD, NBS Nigeria, Scikit-learn, PMTiles, Next.js
Services
System 2 Analysis, Structural Externalities Research, Public Policy Advisory, Qualitative Data Interpretation, Geospatial Systems Design, Data Visualization, Computational Design, Causal Inference, Human-Computer Interaction, Full-Stack Engineering
The work moves through fluid intelligence and System 2 analysis. Census tables become spatial narratives. Trade flows become interactive systems. Economic indicators become instruments that surface structural patterns otherwise buried in raw numbers. Geospatial research, data visualization, interactive cartography, human-computer interaction, computational design, and full-stack engineering converge not as separate services but as a single investigative apparatus applied to problems of sufficient depth. The distance between a consequential dataset and genuine comprehension is a design problem, and the most consequential datasets are almost always the least accessible.
The process is research-driven, computationally intensive, and built to scale, from single-page D3 visualizations to full geospatial pipelines processing millions of census blocks. Collaborators enter as full technical partners, embedded in research workflows from the earliest possible stage. Depending on scope, the studio draws on a network of engineers, cartographers, and domain specialists. Every engagement begins from the problem’s own logic, follows its externalities across whatever disciplinary boundaries they cross, and produces solutions that did not previously exist in the problem space.
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MassINC
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Benjamin Foreman
Dec 2025 – Apr 2026
With the Gateway Cities Innovation Institute, and Elise Raspoza
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MassINC Policy Center is a state-wide think tank run by Benjamin Foreman that focuses on building economic prosperity around underlooked issues. We designed a geospatial data analytics engine, a definition of Massachusetts Downtowns, and interactive visualizations to turn natural language queries and their interconnected ideas into actioanble and comprehensible ou.
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Benjamin Foreman
Dec 2025 – Apr 2026
With the Gateway Cities Innovation Institute, and Elise Raspoza
Website
MassINC Policy Center is a state-wide think tank run by Benjamin Foreman that focuses on building economic prosperity around underlooked issues. We designed a geospatial data analytics engine, a definition of Massachusetts Downtowns, and interactive visualizations to turn natural language queries and their interconnected ideas into actioanble and comprehensible outputs.
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Benjamin Foreman
Dec 2025 – Apr 2026
With the Gateway Cities Innovation Institute, and Elise Raspoza
Website
MassINC Policy Center is a state-wide think tank run by Benjamin Foreman that focuses on building economic prosperity around underlooked issues. We designed a geospatial data analytics engine, a definition of Massachusetts Downtowns, and interactive visualizations to turn natural language queries and their interconnected ideas into actioanble and comprehensible outputs.
We designed an interactive website to document these locations and their interconnected ideas and objects, using a wide array of methods including photogrammetry, GIS research, astronomical data analysis, and archaeological stratigraphy.
Massachusetts Economic Policy A scrollytelling map of Gateway Cities, innovation corridors, and economic development initiatives across Massachusetts — from Springfield to the South Coast.
Massachusetts Economic Policy A scrollytelling map of Gateway Cities, innovation corridors, and economic development initiatives across Massachusetts — from Springfield to the South Coast.
Boston Protest Geography A scrollytelling map of key demonstration sites across Boston (2020–2025), from the Common to Harvard Yard. Built in the Reuters Graphics Scroller format.
Boston Protest Geography A scrollytelling map of key demonstration sites across Boston (2020–2025), from the Common to Harvard Yard. Built in the Reuters Graphics Scroller format.
Industry Select multi-scalar sectoral decomposition enabling isolation of occupational clusters by industry, with real-time filtering across the full NAICS taxonomy at block-group resolution.
Industry Select multi-scalar sectoral decomposition enabling isolation of occupational clusters by industry, with real-time filtering across the full NAICS taxonomy at block-group resolution.
Industry Overview aggregate industry landscape across Massachusetts, revealing the spatial concentration of economic activity and sectoral dominance at the block level.
Industry Overview aggregate industry landscape across Massachusetts, revealing the spatial concentration of economic activity and sectoral dominance at the block level.
Jobs by Block extruded 3D morphologies encoding job density at individual census blocks, enabling instant access to employment data for the entire Commonwealth at the most granular level available.
Jobs by Block extruded 3D morphologies encoding job density at individual census blocks, enabling instant access to employment data for the entire Commonwealth at the most granular level available.
Pansophy Engine Geospatial Workflow Engine that uses SQL, XSLX, and Python to query any type of data, any column, for every natural language query through 200 pre-fabricated algorithms.
Massachusetts Survey Map The SST is an 8.4m optical telescope designed to conduct a 10-year survey of the visible sky
Immigrant Influx — Major Cities Foreign-born share vs. industry jobs in 38 Massachusetts cities with population ≥ 40,000
Immigrant Influx — Towns Foreign-born share vs. industry jobs in 206 towns with population 5,000–40,000
Downtown Core & Neighborhood Commercial DBSCAN-delineated employment districts across Massachusetts — downtown cores and secondary neighborhood commercial clusters mapped at the block level.
Downtown Core & Neighborhood Commercial DBSCAN-delineated employment districts — downtown cores and neighborhood commercial clusters at the block level.
Process
DJMI
To define Massachusetts downtowns algorithmically, we built a Downtown Job Mix Index (DJMI) that scores each census block on employment composition and density. Using LODES workplace data, we isolated downtown-compatible sectors—retail, finance, professional services, food service, public admin—while filtering out hospitals and warehouses that inflate job counts without downtown character. The DJMI formula combines downtown employment share with log-density to capture spatial concentration without over-weighting outliers.
Paprika!
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Government of
Jan 2020 – Apr 2022
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yalepaprika.com
Paprika! is the often-monthly
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Government of Nigeria (Proposal)
Feb 2026 – Jun 2026
Website
Paprika! is a new framework to render charts and economic data for food pricing, oil and gas, and other products deemed necessary by Nigeria Stat.
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Government of Nigeria (Proposal)
Feb 2026 – Jun 2026
Website
Paprika! is a new framework to render charts and economic data for food pricing, oil and gas, and other products deemed necessary by Nigeria Stat.
Petrol Prices — Choropleth Average retail PMS price by state, Jan 2026. NBS data across 37 states + FCT, from ₦947 (Ekiti) to ₦1,172 (Cross River)
Petrol Prices — Choropleth Average retail PMS price by state, Jan 2026. NBS data across 37 states + FCT, from ₦947 (Ekiti) to ₦1,172 (Cross River)
Petrol Prices — Label Map The same NBS data rendered as price labels on a clean white map. Color encodes magnitude: green (low) to red (high)
Petrol Prices — Label Map The same NBS data rendered as price labels on a clean white map. Color encodes magnitude: green (low) to red (high)
Price Trends by Zone Monthly PMS price by geopolitical zone, Jan 2023–Jan 2026. Subsidy removal in Jun 2023 and Dangote refinery ramp-up in Apr 2025 annotated
Price Trends by Zone Monthly PMS price by geopolitical zone, Jan 2023–Jan 2026. Subsidy removal in Jun 2023 and Dangote refinery ramp-up in Apr 2025 annotated
Food Price Explosion Slope chart tracing 8 key staples from Mar 2023 through the Dec 2024 peak to Jan 2026 partial recovery. Beans surged 319% before falling back
Food Price Explosion Slope chart tracing 8 key staples from Mar 2023 through the Dec 2024 peak to Jan 2026 partial recovery. Beans surged 319% before falling back
Regional Food Costs Stacked bar chart of food basket cost by geopolitical zone. South-East pays ₦3,484 vs North-West ₦2,527 — a 38% disparity driven by logistics
Regional Food Costs Stacked bar chart of food basket cost by geopolitical zone. South-East pays ₦3,484 vs North-West ₦2,527 — a 38% disparity driven by logistics
Food Basket Streamgraph Monthly evolution of staple food prices Jan 2023–Jan 2026 as a streamgraph. The subsidy removal shock and late-2024 surge are clearly visible
Food Basket Streamgraph Monthly evolution of staple food prices Jan 2023–Jan 2026 as a streamgraph. The subsidy removal shock and late-2024 surge are clearly visible
Process
UV Compositing
Every visualization is rendered entirely in D3.js, with no server-side rendering or heavy frameworks. The choropleth maps project GeoJSON state boundaries through a Mercator projection and color-encode petrol prices using a custom sequential scale built with d3.interpolateRgbBasis—green through amber to deep red—making regional price disparities immediately legible at a glance.
Semantic Lex
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Enterprise AI Tool
2025 – 2026
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semanticlex.com
An Enterprise AI tool engineered for nuanced, cited, legal knowledge. Designed to transform complex legal research into clarity for civic life and small business, it empowers businesses with insightful, legal competence to reduce legal costs, increase legal clarity, and simplify understanding regulations.
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Enterprise AI Tool
2025 – 2026
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semanticlex.com
An Enterprise AI tool engineered for nuanced, cited, legal knowledge. Designed to transform complex legal research into clarity for civic life and small business, it empowers businesses with insightful, legal competence to reduce legal costs, increase legal clarity, and simplify understanding regulations.
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Enterprise AI Tool
2025 – 2026
Website
semanticlex.com
An Enterprise AI tool engineered for nuanced, cited, legal knowledge. Designed to transform complex legal research into clarity for civic life and small business.
It empowers businesses with insightful, legal competence to reduce legal costs, increase legal clarity, and simplify understanding regulations, leading to clear minded decision-making.
Intricacies and nuances create animations that improve usability and perspective; vital to creating happiness and clarity above transactional usage.
Omnipresent, Expanded
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Iran & Israel War
Mar 2026 – Apr 2026
With U.S. Actions, Israeli Attacks, and Iranian Counteroffensives
Omnipresent, Expanded is an interactive chronicle of the Iran–Israel escalation and its global reverberations. We built a static interface that lets users navigate the conflict across temporal, geographic, and strategic dimensions—tracing airstrikes, diplomatic maneuvers, and civilian impact as interconnected events rather than isolated headlines.
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Iran & Israel War
Mar 2026 – Apr 2026
With U.S. Actions, Israeli Attacks, and Iranian Counteroffensives
Omnipresent, Expanded is an interactive chronicle of the Iran–Israel escalation and its global reverberations. We built a real-time interface that lets users navigate the conflict across temporal, geographic, and strategic dimensions—tracing airstrikes, diplomatic maneuvers, and civilian impact as interconnected events rather than isolated headlines.
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Iran & Israel War
Mar 2026 – Apr 2026
With U.S. Actions, Israeli Attacks, and Iranian Counteroffensives
Omnipresent, Expanded is an interactive chronicle of the Iran–Israel escalation and its global reverberations. We built a real-time interface that lets users navigate the conflict across temporal, geographic, and strategic dimensions—tracing airstrikes, diplomatic maneuvers, and civilian impact as interconnected events rather than isolated headlines.
We worked across multiple dimensions—temporal, spatial, and strategic—to organize and display U.S. actions, Israeli strikes, and Iranian counteroffensives alongside their cascading effects on energy markets, shipping corridors, and regional alliances.
Interactive Companion Live situational awareness globe tracking the Strait of Hormuz crisis. Overlays include vessel traffic, ADS-B aircraft feeds, Iranian and Israeli strike locations, US military assets, and nuclear facilities. Built with Reuters Graphics TileMap and MapLibre GL.
The China Project
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The China Project
Jan 2024 – Apr 2026
A series of interactive data visualizations exploring structural shifts in global trade, manufacturing, gun violence, and tariff policy. Built with D3.js and Observable Plot using public datasets from the World Bank, CDC, and UNCTAD.
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The China Project
Jan 2024 – Apr 2026
A series of interactive data visualizations exploring structural shifts in global trade, manufacturing, gun violence, and tariff policy. Built with D3.js and Observable Plot using public datasets from the World Bank, CDC, and UNCTAD.
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The China Project
Jan 2024 – Apr 2026
A series of interactive data visualizations exploring structural shifts in global trade, manufacturing, gun violence, and tariff policy.
Built with D3.js and Observable Plot using public datasets from the World Bank, CDC, and UNCTAD. Each chart traces policy decisions and their measurable economic consequences.
The China Shock — % of GDP Manufacturing value added as a share of GDP by sector and country (1990–2020). Western deindustrialization and East Asian absorption after China’s WTO accession.
The China Shock — Gross Value Manufacturing value added in billions USD by sector and country (1990–2020). China’s WTO accession triggered the largest structural shift in global manufacturing since the Industrial Revolution.
Gun Violence Across US States Firearm deaths per 100k by state (1999–2023). Tracks the impact of federal legislation, state-coordinated reforms, and policy rollbacks on gun death rates across all 50 states.
Trump Tariffs — Trade Impact Quarterly trade volume change across 30 countries (2017–2026). Maps the cascading effects of steel tariffs, China trade war, and Liberation Day actions on global commerce.
Jobs by Sector across Gateway City Districts Three chart views in one slide: 2023 totals, normalized mix, and 2019 totals.
Iran's Shadow Fleet Reuters investigation into Iranian tankers delivering jet fuel to Myanmar's junta via AIS spoofing.
Massachusetts Precinct Results, 2024 2,374 precincts colored by margin of victory in the 2024 presidential election.
New York Precinct Results, 2024 12,984 precincts colored by margin of victory in the 2024 presidential election.