Name:

Stratigraphy vs. Sea Level Model

Tool:

Observable, Wellioviz.js, Vega.js

Type:

Code doodle

Description:

A weekend code doodle where I explored building an explorable explainable for stratigraphic stacking patterns controlled by sea level. Hope to come back to this at some point and polish it up.

Name:

Wellioviz

Tool:

D3.js

Type:

Data Visualization Library

Name:

Houston: Art City / Science City

Tool:

Kepler.gl, Tableau, Web Scraping, Pandas

Type:

Weekend Hackathon

Name:

AI vs. Human generated keywords

Tool:

Python, NLP, Observable, D3.js

Type:

NLP & Visualization

Description:

Demonstrated superior descriptive power of machine-generated tags vs. human-generated tags for open-source code discovery on code.nasa.gov.

Name:

Modeled Flood Damage Dashboard

Tool:

Tableau & Geopandas

Type:

Map

Description:

Merged Houston property data and 1st draft of FEMA property-level flood damage modeling into a Tableau dashboard. The goal was quick visual exploration rather than pretty visuals. Helping out SketchCity, a local civic tech group.

Name:

Game of Thrones Parallel Sets

Tool:

D3.js

Type:

Data Visualization

Name:

Experiments using NASA open-source metadata & ObservableHQ

Tool:

D3.js & Observable

Type:

Data Visualization

Description:

Quick notebook-style data visualization leveraging concept metadata tags on open-source NASA code projects.

Name:

Can sound be used in data visualiation?

Tool:

Tone.js & Observable

Type:

Sonnified Data Visualization

Description:

Experiment using tone.js & d3.js on Observable to turn a data visualization into a sonnificatin.

Name:

Augmented Reality Card

Tool:

AR.js, aframe.js, three.js, Artoolkit.js

Type:

Augmented Reality

Description:

Made an entirely browser-based (no apps required) augmented reality back for my business card. The 3D model is a topographic model of Gale Crater derived from data from ESA's Mars Express mission.

Name:

Mars Rover ChemCam

Tool:

Python & Plotly

Type:

Interactive Data Visualization

Description:

A Houston Data Visualization Meetup data jam using major element data from MarsScienceLaboratory (Curiosity Rover) ChemCam rock sample data. This type of data has been visualized statically in the same way for decades. We challenged non-geologists to do new and interactive things with it.

Name:

Houston Crime Dashbaord

Tool:

Tableau

Type:

Map

Description:

Quick TableauPublic exploration of a crime open-dataset from the city of Houston. This was a Houston Data Visualization Meetup 3 hour data jam project.

Name:

Dot Plot

Tool:

D3.js

Type:

Data Visualization

Description:

Dot plot variation for tracking status of things over time designed to maximize speed to insight. White blocks are where status changes. Increase in red dots signifies stale problematic status.

Name:

Car-based Lidar

Tool:

Three.js

Type:

3D data visualization

Description:

A quick side project to explore both car-based LIDAR data, which was different than the plane-based datasets I'm more familiar with in GIS using three.js

Name:

Astroids Clone

Tool:

Python

Type:

Game

Description:

Clone of the old school Astroids game. There's a way to cheat and enter your own score.

Type:

Excessive Pong

Tool:

Python

Type:

Game

Description:

A clone of old school pong with a ridiculous number of add-ons, because the original was kinda boring. Examples include teleports, curve balls, too many balls, and a computer opponent with lousy skills.

Name:

Global Holocene Volcanism & Large Historical Earthquakes

Tool:

ESRI ArcGIS GUI & JS

Type:

Web App Map

Description:

Created as part of an ESRI sponsored hackathon event. Map of Holocene volcanoes and major earthquakes. Data from Smithsonian Institutes Global Volcanism Program.

Name:

Map of Geology Locations

Tool:

CartDB & JavaScript

Type:

Map

Description:

Map of various locations I've done field geology or worked the subsurface data. Created in cartoDB an online mapping platform.

Name:

Flowing Particle

Tool:

Python

Type:

Script on Phone

Description:

Uses pythonista, which lets me run small python scripts on my iphone. My goal was make something simple and pretty to show my 2 year old nephew. Different blobs of light flow away from where the screen is touched and decay through a color spectrum.