Taxonomy Visualization Interface at Animal Diversity web

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan. I began working for them in January of 2008 to develop a visualization tool that will help users locate, and make inferences about, species in their database. This will done with Prefuse Flare visualization toolkit. Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations including basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more. Flare is written in the ActionScript 3 programming language and can be used to build visualizations that run on the web in the Adobe Flash Player. This is my first time developing a visualization tool and I'm very excited about the opportunity.
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The Hive

The Hive is a site that I developed with Maureen Hanrath and Sergio Mendez as a project for an advance web design class at University of Michigan. The site is written using Ruby on Rails with some Ajax for interactivity. It is by far the most advanced web app I have developed yet and considering that we built it in about 5 weeks it is really a testament to how powerful ruby is. However getting the site hosted has not been so easy but you can see screen shots of it.
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Lakeside Information Kiosk: Summer 2007

Over the summer of 2007 I had the opportunity to return to the TIES (teams in engineering service) Kiosk project as an intern. The interface that I had developed for the kiosk worked fine for users, but because it was Flash based it required a skill set that our client at Lakeside's river park conservancy did not have.
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Muir TV

As part of a course on cognitive design my classmates Serina Chang, Marc Leglise, Kris Tew, and I designed and built a new website for Muir TV. Muir TV is a student run station by and for Muir students.
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Tag Garden

In this project I set out to investigate how our cultural concepts of musical genres are represented by the tags applied to music in the social-music networking site lastFM. I then used the tags applied to artists to visually represent the complicated and ubiquitous ideas of musical genres as plants.
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