Somerville Public Art Map

by | May 1, 2015

We received a grant from the Somerville Arts Council to build an online public map of Somerville, MA, USA. You can browse and submit pieces of art on their website. To support some outreach activities, we built a website that lets you print maps for...

What We Watch: explore trending YouTube videos

by | Apr 1, 2015

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....

Box Designer

by | Jan 1, 2015

Box Designer is a little app that can generate the outlines for a box to be out of some material with a cutting device (ideally using wood/acrylic on a lasercutter!). You tell it the dimensions of the box (width, height, depth, material width), and it generates a PDF...

PageOneX – visualizing front-page news coverage

by | Aug 1, 2014

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

by | Jul 1, 2013

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...