Portfolio

Client-side Versus Server-side Geoprocessing (Master's Thesis)


Web-based GIS and mapping applications are traditionally based on a client-server model, where most of the data processing work is placed on the server, but current trends in web applications are moving towards more interactivity and processing tasks on the client. This Master's thesis study examined what happens when that processing load is shifted to the client using JavaScript to process geospatial data directly in the browser.

Date Thesis Completed: August 2014
Tools used: Java, JavaScript, JTS Topology Suite, JSTS Topology Suite, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, GitHub, Eclipse, and Yahoo! Boomerang.

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50 Years of Change


Built with d3.js, this interactive visualization shows the change in LGBT marriage, adoption, housing, hate crimes, hospital visitation, and employment laws in all fifty states over the past fifty years. This was a team project for the final requirement of an upper-division class in geovisualization and interactive cartography.

Award: 2013 NACIS Student Narrative Dynamic Map Winner
Featured on: Peachpit article by Alberto Cairo, visual.ly, and MapHugger
Date Created: Spring 2013 and updated December 2013
Tools used: d3.js, jQuery, GitHub

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Fox-Wolf Hydrologic Dashboard


Built using Leaflet.js, this interactive map was created for UW Sea Grant to show how storm events move through the Fox-Wolf watershed in Wisconsin in terms of resulting precipitation and streamflow.

Date Created: Spring 2012
Tools used: Leaflet.js, Highstocks.js, AJAX, PHP, jQuery, jQuery UI

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Food Access and Poverty


Built using d3.js, this interactive visualization looks at the relationship between food security (access to food) and particiation in SNAP (previously called foodstamps). Created for an upper-division class in geovisualization and interactive cartography.

Date Created: Spring 2013
Tools used: d3.js

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Spacecraft Launches


This interactive animated map, built using Leaflet.js, looks at the launch of spacecraft from all major space ports since 1957. Created for an upper-division course in geovisualization and interactive cartography.

Date Created: Spring 2013
Tools used: Leaflet.js, Raphael.js, jQuery, jQuery UI, Python (with Beautiful Soup)

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Frontline Battle Against Asian Carp


This static thematic map shows the spread of highly invasive Asian Carp in the Mississippi River drainage basin through location of established populations, recorded capture, and eDNA monitoring. It also shows the transfer risk associated with potential pathways into the Great Lakes watershed. This was created for the final project of a course in cartography.

Date Created: Fall 2011 and updated Fall 2012
Tools used: ArcGIS and Adobe Illustrator

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Foreclosure Filings by State


This static thematic map shows the number of home foreclosures by state for the years of 2007 through 2010. This was created as part of course in cartography.

Date Created: Fall 2011
Tools used: ArcGIS and Adobe Illustrator

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