Portfolio
This portfolio gives a project based view of a selection of my previous work to give a complementary view of my curriculum vitae and freelance service offering. The portfolio demonstrates my experience in search and knowledge systems, urban and spatial analysis and systems for aiding artistic projects. It contains a mixture of recent freelance and solo-preneurial work of my startup Urbanixm, as well as older project from my time at Yahoo! Labs and the University of Amsterdam.
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Urbanixm Knowledge Discovery Engine
The urbanixm Knowledge Discovery Engine is a collection of AI powered tools to curate knowledge of our built environment and make it easier to access information about the impact of urban interventions. The engine collects content from the Web (local authority websites, news sites, urbanism blogs, research reports, etc.) and runs it through an information…
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Urban Data Stories
Urban Data Stories are narrated analyses of urban data sets where we shed light on a particular urban aspect. The stories are a simplified version of a Urban Data Insights service offering by urbanixm. The Urban Data Insights help local panning authorities and property developers to explore local challenges and opportunities through a bottom-up analysis…
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Urbanixm Widgets WordPress Plugin
At Urbanixm we harvest documents from the web and extract and curate information about the implementation and impact or urban policy and interventions. In order to create a proof-of-concept for the curated knowledge-base we developed a WordPress plugin that provides widgets for interacting with the information. The widgets are written in React.js and utilizes Leaflet…
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Urbanixm Content Classification
At Urbanixm we harvest documents from the web and extract information about the implementation and impact or urban policy and interventions. At the early stage of the content processing pipeline we judge whether a document is relevant to urbanism. At a later stage we curate relevant document paragraphs with information such as which urbanism topics…
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Twig Works
Twig Works is a document generation platform for compiling both PDF and ePub files from a single text source. The project is operational for generating the necessary files for publishing my own works of fiction on various platforms, including Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), iTunes (Apple Books), and Kobo. It handles text in a proprietary XML…
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Fannr: Flickr Annotator
Fannr – Flickr Annotator – was a prototype application for assisting users in annotating their Flickr photos. It was developed by Börkur Sigurbjörnsson at the Yahoo! Research Lab in Barcelona.
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TagExplorer
The TagExplorer was prototype that I made while at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona. The TagExplorer enabled browsing Flickr photos using semantically organized tag clouds. The prototype combined two research projects that I was working on at the time, tag recommendation and tag classification (see references below). For example, if the user typed in London, they…
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Wikiii
Wikiii was a search engine interface for giving focused access to Wikipedia. It was powered by the Lucene based XML element retrieval engine I developed as part of my PhD research. For a given query the search engine gave direct access to the most relevant sections of the relevant Wikipedia articles.
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XMLFind
XMLFind was a prototype developed by a group of students who I supervised during Project Information Retrieval — a one month intensive class at The University of Amsterdam where a small team of students worked together on a project. The students built the prototype on top of the XML retrieval engine I had developed as…