This portfolio presents selected projects as a complement to my curriculum vitae and freelance services. It demonstrates my work in search and knowledge systems, urban and spatial analysis, and software for artistic projects. The projects range from recent freelance and startup work with Urbanixm to earlier work at Yahoo! Labs and the University of Amsterdam.
The Urbanixm Knowledge Discovery Engine gathers web content about urbanism, extracts information about policies and interventions, and organizes it for search and research. read more…
Urban Data Stories are narrated analyses of urban datasets that explore a particular aspect of a place. Their goal is to help a wide range of stakeholders, such as local planning authorities, property developers or citizens, to explore local challenges and opportunities through bottom-up analysis of local data. read more…
Behaviourly is a desktop application for designing and testing power-intensity sequences for responsive art objects, then exporting them for use in exhibitions. read more…
The Urbanixm Widgets WordPress plugin provides map and chart widgets for exploring information about urban policy and interventions curated by Urbanixm. read more…
Urbanixm Content Classification uses machine-learning models to identify relevant web pages and annotate passages about urban policy and interventions. It automates parts of the content-curation pipeline, helping process the collection at scale. read more…
Twig Works generates PDF and ePub editions from a single text source. I use it to prepare my fiction for platforms including Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Apple Books, and Kobo. read more…
Fannr was a prototype that helped Flickr users annotate photos by recommending tags and possible locations, drawing on their own photos and wider photo collections. read more…
Points of Interest for Yahoo! Image Search added faceted browsing to place-based image searches, helping people explore results through notable places. The feature grew out of work on TagExplorer, a Yahoo! Research prototype for semantically organized photo browsing. Context Yahoo! Research and Yahoo! Image Search explored how research on photo tagging and semantic browsing could… read more…
TagExplorer was a Yahoo! Research prototype for browsing Flickr photos through semantically organized tag clouds, combining work on tag recommendation and tag classification. read more…
The main research topic during my PhD research was XML Element Retrieval [1]. I took a corpus of scientific articles in XML format and built a search engine on top of it to run experiments. For a given user query, the task was to go below the document level and return the XML elements that… read more…
Wikiii applied focused search to Wikipedia, returning relevant sections of articles rather than only whole articles. It used the Lucene-based XML retrieval engine I developed during my PhD research. read more…
XMLFind was a student-built search prototype that returned relevant sections of scientific articles in the INEX collection. I supervised the team and provided the XML retrieval engine on which it was built. read more…
