Projects
Coding Bootcamps
I studied the barriers faced by students in coding bootcamps. This work involved interviewing 26 coding bootcamp students.
Resulting paper: Barriers Faced by Coding Bootcamp Students
Blog post: What I Learned From Researching Coding Bootcamps
Color Perception Test
This project has two components: the test, and the experiment being run on the test.
The Test
How does your color perception compares to others? Performing color sorting and color naming tasks to find out! This experiment takes around 12 minutes.
The Experiment
The Color Perception Test is currently gathering data on how people perceive and name colors in different languages. The test is part of LabintheWild, an online experiment platform for conducting behavioral studies that lets participants compare themselves to others in exchange for study participation.
Results
Peer-reviewed paper: Color Names Across Languages: Salient Colors and Term Translation in Multilingual Color Naming Models
Blog post: There Is No "Blue" in Korean: Different Languages Have Different Colors
Visualizations: The Many Languages, Many Colors Project
Bioladder
An interactive visualization of the Evolutionary Tree of Life.
This is an independent project I made because I wanted to be able to navigate through evolutionary changes in a way I didn't find on other websites. In particular, I wanted to see something closer to the individual gradual steps by which animals evolved (as far as we can tell). For example, I wanted to be able to start at a whale and navigate my way back to see where whales came from.
IFC Soft
A no longer working data visualization program that used Self-Organizing Maps and Wind-Rose charts.
This project was done as part of my Master's Thesis research and was used to visualize and analyze Flow Cytometry Data from human cells.
- Open Source Code: https://code.google.com/archive/p/ifcsoft/
- Master's Thesis: http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/91mbm
- Conference Demo Paper: IFC soft: visual comparison of flow cytometry data using self-organizing maps
3D Reconstruction of Greek Ruins at Samothrace
While I was at Emory University I worked with Bonna Wescoat of the Emory Art History department along with others on a 3D reconstruction of the ruins at Samothrace, Greece.
The Sanctuary of the Great Gods was the site of the one of the most famous of the Mystery Religions in ancient Greece and had famous members, such as Philip II (father of Alexander the Great). The Sanctuary of the Great Gods was also the home of the Nike of Samothrace statue (now in the Louvre).
- Reconstruction 3D Walkthrough (2011): http://samothrace.emory.edu/3-d-walkthroughs/
- National Geographic 3D Walkthrough (2016): http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/07/samothrace-greek-cult-initiate-video/ (there was also a nice 2 page spread in the July 2016 magazine)