Portfolio
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.
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Urbanixm Knowledge Discovery Engine
The Urbanixm Knowledge Discovery Engine gathers web content about urbanism, extracts information about policies and interventions, and organizes it for search and research.
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Urban Data Stories
Urban Data Stories are narrated analyses of urban datasets that explore a particular aspect of a place. They present a simplified version of Urbanixm’s Urban Data Insights service, which helps local planning authorities and property developers explore local challenges and opportunities through analysis of local data.
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Behaviourly
Behaviourly is a desktop application for designing and testing power-intensity sequences for responsive art objects, then exporting them for use in exhibitions.
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Urbanixm Widgets WordPress Plugin
The Urbanixm Widgets WordPress plugin provides map and chart widgets for exploring information about urban policy and interventions curated by Urbanixm.
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Urbanixm Content Classification
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.
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Twig Works
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.
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Fannr: Flickr Annotator
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.
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TagExplorer
TagExplorer was a Yahoo! Research prototype for browsing Flickr photos through semantically organized tag clouds, combining work on tag recommendation and tag classification.
