The Data Guild
I am a lead member at the Data Guild , a venture studio. At the Guild, I've supported data products in healthcare, life sciences, marketing, agriculture and climate change. I perform commercial…
Let’s use computers to address important social problems with urgency, clarity and creativity.
Chris Blow France
Design and strategy
I design and build data products to improve human sensemaking. My focus is conceptualization, positioning and prototyping products using applied machine learning, data visualization and large datasets.
Big questions
How can we expand human capacity to better cope with critical social and environmental problems?
How can we visualize data to make better decisions within it and recognize opportunity?
How can we manage complexity with ethical responsibility to make powerful digital systems inclusive and accountable?
Working together
- I work with scientists, startups and nonprofits.
- I design and build native, cross-platform apps.
- I help build business models in complex domains.
Experience
Product leadership and platform design
- Meedan — Founder and design lead for translation startup
- The Data Guild — Lead Member at data product studio
- LightField — Design for agriculture and climate
- WeaveGrid — Frontend/UX lead for climate tech startup
- Contain — Technology lead for fintech agriculture startup
- Cypress — Design and code for automation platform
Software development
- Litterati — Design consultant for data prep and computer vision.
- Healthmade — Data visualizations for health
- Ethnio — UI development for usability research products
- Bolt | Peters — Design and UI research consulting
- Ushahidi — Design for civic media platform
- Nonprofit Design — Founder of design services company
Usability, graphics, UI, visualizations
Layer
At the Guild we identified a class of low-touch products which worked well with the portfolio model — products which are data-driven, developer-facing tools that are horizontally relevant and can…
Faer
Disparities in health in the United States have grown, leaving some urban cores on par with undeveloped nations. The rate of chronic illness such as diabetes, asthma, sickle cell disproportionately…
LightField
I co-founded LightField , which is a data startup dedicated to improving agricultural practice through new financial mechanisms combined with organizational and social design. LightField builds data…
Contain
Contain (Techstars 2019) is an fintech platform that matches farmers to financing. Contain focuses on serving indoor growers who have specific equipment needs and return profiles. For example, growing…
Litterati
Litterati is a startup dedicated to community organizing for policy change. Litterati helps local teams of citizens organize to clean up beachfronts and urban areas. Users use an iOS or Android app to…
Meedan
Meedan is a vibrant mission-driven company with a vision of a healthier, cross-lingual internet. I helped build Meedan from concept to a team of more than a dozen people, serving as Director of User…