Suicide Prevention Among Culturally Diverse Populations

The Greater Boston Suicide Prevention Coalition noticed that their membership didn’t represent the diversity of the Greater Boston Area, and that their prevention efforts were not always designed to meet the specific needs of diverse populations. In order to help them...

What We Watch: explore trending YouTube videos

With Ed Platt and Ethan Zuckerman at the MIT Center for Civic Media, I built an online tool to geographically explore trending videos on YouTube. We logged daily information on trending videos from YouTube and built a network of countries that watch the same videos....

PageOneX – visualizing front-page news coverage

I worked on PageOneX – a platform for newspaper front-page analysis. The tool, created by Pablo Rey, allows you to highlight areas of front pages that are about specific topics. Then the tool generates a chart of front page coverage over time. This builds on...

Vojo.co – MMS publishing platform

I worked on Vojo.co – a hosted mobile blogging platform that makes it easy for people to post stories from inexpensive mobile phones via voice calls, SMS, and MMS. Our goal is to foster greater inclusion in in the digital public sphere. We’ve partnered with...

StickerPrint

StickerPrint is a network-enabled address label printer. Specially formatted information from the web can be downloaded, parsed, and printed onto small address labels (like the ones you use on envelopes to send mail). The neat thing is that these are then...