Currently in my 4th year of Computer Engineering and International Development Studies at the Lassonde School of Engineering at York University.
I've recently taken a significant interest in UX/UI and machine learning and would love to be involved in any related projects. Let's talk!
Twitter Mining and Sentiment Analysis of Canada's Election
In the spirit of Canada's 2015 federal election, the purpose of this application was to determine if it was possible to help predict results using the sentiment of tweets. The application dynamically updates a graph by gathering tweets related to Canadian politics and analysing if it was positive or negative towards a certain party through a combination of machine learning classification algorithms. The application was also able to plot the frequency of tweets related to each party to determine their popularity. As a result, rather than predicting long term results, the application provided more insight to current and immediate events related to Canadian politics. Code can be viewed here.
Language/Tools Used:
Python, MySQL
Date:
September 2015
Category:
Data Visualisation, Machine Learning
SpyGlass - NASA Space Apps TO Submission
SpyGlass was an Android application designed by myself and two other members. It was our submission to the annual NASA Space Apps hackathon, specifically the challenge titled "VOLCANOES, ICEBERGS, AND CATS FROM SPACE." The solution attempts to crowdsource the discovery of "interesting" natural events as observed from space using data from NASA's Earth observation satellites. We decided to use the sharing concepts of Instagram and the gamification of the swiping technique from Tinder to crowdsource and build a community of interesting satellite imagery. Code can be viewed here.
Language/Tools Used:
Adobe Photoshop CS6, Android Studio
Date:
April 2015
Category:
UI Design, Android Application
York University Student Portal
This project was created as part of the Human Computer Interaction course offered by York University. The course was completed abroad at the Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (ICS-FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. The web portal was designed and implemented with two other members and consisted of three phases. The first phase was the prototype of the design in which the wireframes and intended functionalities were presented to the client. The second phase involved the actual implementation. The final phase involved the evaluation of the design through user interviews and system usability scale (SUS) questionnaire. The project attempts to demonstrate and understand standardised and effective usability principles and accessibility to the user. Code can be viewed here.
During the course of my university career, I've been involved with many extracurricular clubs and am usually the one responsible for creating event posters and logos. This team roster poster was one of the few that stood out for me as I was creating a graphic that was to support my fellow colleagues at competitions external to our university. It was my first venture into creating team roster posters. I wouldn't consider myself an avid sports fan, but the team roster designs that I researched were not cutting it in terms of aesthetics and representative of engineering and computer science students. I believe what truly made these posters scream team roster and "support us" was the font. The font I used was Bebas, which I fittingly stumbled upon on a Manchester United page. The poster design was adaptable to different competitions in terms of colours. They were well received over social media during the course of the competitions.
Language/Tools Used:
Adobe Photoshop CS6
Date:
January 2014
Category:
Graphic Design
Chemistry Society at York Logo Design
Redesigning the logo of the Chemistry Society was quite a challenge - originally I did not want to have a beaker or the typical Bohr model as part of the logo as they were tried and generic; however, diverging from that was quite difficult as there were very few immediate recognisable symbols of Chemistry. I first tried to find interesting chemical structures, but none of these produced the branding of a student society. Instead, I played around with the design of the beaker and the revolving electron model. What truly made the design feel correct for me was placing the acronyms of the Chemistry Society onto the beaker such that they appeared to be units of measurement. The design was completed with the choice of colours (with red to represent York and blue to represent Chemistry).
Language/Tools Used:
Adobe Illustrator
Date:
April 2014
Category:
Graphic Design
SkyscraperPage Diagrams
SkyscraperPage.com was one of the first web sites that made me as proficient as I am today in using Photoshop. It was also responsible for making me appreciative of architecture and I am now an avid fan and follower of the latest and greatest skyscrapers that have been built and currently under construction. SkyscraperPage provides diagrams of the buildings in cities and provides an informative view on the height of buildings. Each diagram that I created was always an enjoyable process - researching the building, finding photographs as references, and reconstructing it in Photoshop. Having my diagrams approved onto the system always made me excited and made me even further excited that I was one of the sole providers of diagrams for certain cities such as my hometown Windsor - I even created a web site (a bit embarrassing) for my first Intro to Internet course in 2009 on the buildings of Windsor (http://electron.cs.uwindsor.ca/~layt/index.html).