A multi-issue interactive data zine. Each issue takes an institutional data signal (consumer spending reports, government disclosure timelines) and compares it against publicly available proxy data to find the story the official numbers leave out. Sourced data, opinionated framing, custom visualizations.
This is not a dashboard or a tool. It is a data journalism project: pull data from public APIs, find the pattern, build the narrative, present it in a format people actually want to read.
The 2026 Iran war closed the Strait of Hormuz. Gas went from $2.98 to $4.55 in three months. USDA revised food inflation forecasts upward: beef +9.4%, sugar +6.7%, coffee-driven beverages +5.2%. Meanwhile, DOGE-driven cuts removed 24,000 USDA workers, including food safety inspectors and SNAP administrators.
The issue maps grocery store manipulation psychology against these macro shocks and shows how the official Consumer Confidence Index diverges from behavioral proxy signals (search volume, Reddit sentiment) that reflect what people are actually experiencing at shelf level. Custom D3 charts for gas price timelines with annotated war events, USDA category-level inflation forecasts with worst-case ranges, and federal workforce reduction visualizations.
Correlates the timeline of UAP disclosure events (from Grusch's 2023 testimony through the May 2026 PURSUE file drops) with defense contractor stock performance. RTX (Raytheon) up 68% in two years. Combined contractor backlogs exceeding $547 billion. Every hearing that says "we need better detection capabilities" is a sentence that ends with a purchase order.
Includes a credibility matrix rating major UAP incidents on four axes (documented, radar-corroborated, near military base, near contractor facility), a disclosure timeline visualization, and the alternate hypothesis that the most interesting UFO conspiracy is that they are not UFOs at all.
Neo-brutalist zine aesthetic, intentionally opposite to the rest of my portfolio. Anton display type, Syne body, IBM Plex Mono for data. Paper grain texture overlay, generative geometric distortion on canvas, glitch text effects on scroll reveal. Each issue has its own color palette: sickly receipt orange for grocery economics, olive drab and manila for the declassified document feel.
Data visualizations are custom D3, not Chart.js defaults. Styled to feel like they were printed and scanned. Hand-annotated event markers, stripped axes, monospace labels.
Live at zine.gabyhernandez.dev. Source on GitHub.