Portfolio

Data Governance Health Status Checks

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This collaborative project involved contextual design research and the development of user-centered procedures and tools for the City of Pittsburgh’s Data Governance Health Status Checks.

Digital Humanities Topic Modeling

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The high-level goal of this exploratory, unsupervised learning project was to investigate which topics are present within the humanities digital collection, and how those topics vary over time.

Life During COVID-19 Application Profile and Metadata Schema

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A collaborative project to create a Metadata Schema Application Profile. The Life During COVID-19 is an XML Schema application profile for describing a collection of internet-based media and datasets that reflect American reactions and outcomes related to the COVID-19 pandemic of 2019-2020.

Census Tracts and Relationship Files

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This Census project explains the Allegheny County 2000-2010 Census Tract Relationship File and shows how the 2010 Census tracts in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania relate to the 2000 Census tracts.

Losing Schools to the Economic Chasm

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For my thesis for the Computational Mathematics program at Duquesne, I examined the amount of variance in the new Pennsylvania school performance data that is explained by IRS-based income values.

Dictation Tutor

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A collaborative project to create a java application to enable English language learners to practice writing from oral prompts in preparation for the written portion of the citizenship test.

Boggle Game

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A collaborative project to create a servlet version of Boggle, which implements the MVC design pattern using a Java servlet as controller, a Java Beans class for the data model, and the XML version of JSP (jspx) to generate the views.