An interactive data storytelling project that explores how AI is reshaping the job market.
This project answers the question "Will AI take my job?" through data. It visualizes employment shifts from the Industrial Revolution to today, real-world AI adoption trends, and automation risk scores across 974 occupations.
A scroll-driven narrative across 15 sections.
| Section | Content |
|---|---|
| S1 | Hero — the central question |
| S2 | Racing bar chart — employment by industry, 1800–2024 |
| S3 | Transition — "Jobs disappearing?" vs "Tasks changing?" |
| S4 | Word cloud — a job is a bundle of tasks |
| S5 | Heatmap — 25 occupations × 30 task types |
| S6 | Interactive heatmap + radar chart — explore task profiles by occupation |
| S7 | Treemap — task types with the highest AI usage share |
| S8–S9 | Diverging bar chart — automation (replacement) vs augmentation (collaboration) |
| S10 | Part 3 transition — real employment data |
| S11 | Line chart — AI adoption index vs total employment index (2022–2025) |
| S12 | Bubble chart — task composition vs employment growth |
| S13–S14 | Conclusion — reframing the question |
| S15 | Interactive diagnostic — search 974 occupations, see automation / augmentation / stable breakdown |
- D3.js v7 — racing bar, treemap, diverging bar, line chart
- Chart.js 4 — radar chart, bubble chart
- Plotly 2 — heatmap
- Vanilla HTML / CSS / JS (no build tools)
No installation needed. Open index.html directly in a browser.
open index.html- BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) — industry employment time series, occupation wages and employment size
- O*NET — occupation task characteristics and importance scores
- Stanford HAI / Goldman Sachs — AI adoption index
- AI adoption has surged, yet the overall employment index has barely moved.
- Augmentation (AI working alongside humans) is far more prevalent than automation (AI replacing humans).
- High-risk occupations skew toward repetitive and clerical tasks; resilient ones skew toward interpersonal and cognitive work.