This is a very rough proof of concept that involved scraping some dictionary websites vocabulary and translation and then developing an app that lets you log in with Google and then run through flash cards in one of several languages in order of vocabulary use frequency. It remembers where you left off (you can reset the bookmark) and also keeps score of how many times you skip a card without flipping it (you can reset that too). If your score clears a threshold, it'll stop showing you that card until you reset your scores.
Building on questions that arose during the development of a project called Letters Across the Pond (in which I scanned family letters from Ireland to the US, marked them up and mapped out people and places references in them), this ongoing investigation explores solutions to problems in genealogical entity management, artifact digitization, and data visualization. Ranging from how to best store, tag, and mark up images to how to combine disparate family trees by identifying identical people who are referenced in each, the issues of digitizing our heritage are explored from many angles.
In conjunction with the Genealogical interests described above, solutions are being explored that may facilitate the documentation of life experience in such a way that they can easily be viewed in time and space. Connections between people and places at various times during their lives, as well as the interpersonal connections that exist at junctures in time are considered as relevant data schemas are devised. Tools such as the Google Maps API and Simile Timeline and Google Timeline are explored as possible solutions to the visualization challenges surrounding the display of this these types of information.
Built using data provided by George Mason University's Speech Accent Archive, this map allows users to explore accents around the world as they all read the same sample paragraph.
Built for a researcher at Indiana University, this website hosts recorded Yiddish interviews with remaining speakers in Eastern Europe. One of the ways to browse the interviews is using an interactive map.
Using Python to scrape data about the geographic settings in each episode of the fifteen seasons of Supernatural, this map allows you to browse by area, season and episode to see where the Winchesters went during their adventures. While the show was largely filmed on sets in Canada, I thought it would be fun for fans to be able to explore where the boys went in the stories. The map also features some "real" haunts nearby the setting locations in case traveling fans want to explore haunts nearby their favorite episode settings.