Dea Bankova is a creative developer focusing on data-based visual storytelling. In her day job as a data visualisation developer at Reuters, she has to put to use her artistic sensibilities and technical skills in web development and data to craft unique pages on topics ranging from Eurovision, the World Cup, and quantum cryptography, to the war in Ukraine, as well as technically challenging pieces such as the Reuters 2024 US election live results maps. Outside of work, she also dabbles in experimental data art and works that broadly fall under the creative coding umbrella. Both her personal and professional work has won awards at places such as IIB and SND.

She is also a community organiser and tech workshop facilitator, and for the past year, she has been running c3s: Creative Coding Crafts Space in London, where she runs creative coding workshops. She loves having fun with code and pushing the boundaries of what web pages are supposed to look like, and she believes in the ‘craft of code’, i.e. both the creative practice of coding itself and the use of code in creative practices.