Sync the City
Synchronizing change throughout the city.
What it is:
- A tool for nonprofit organizations in Baltimore City
- Identify who is working on what, where, and with whom
- Show this information in an intuitive way
- Allow for more effective collaboration and resource allocation
What I did:
- Developed interactive visualizations for user exploration
- Prioritized feature development for Minimum Viable Product
- Built and deployed a Shiny web application
What I learned:
- Web Development
- Shiny
- Bootstrap
- Reactive programming in R
- Front-end design
- Web Mapping
- Leaflet
- Google Maps Platform API
- Map projections and transformations
Why it interests me:
- Enabling organizations with social justice missions is important
- Allowing users to explore data themselves can open opportunities
- Building a tool instead of an analysis requires a different approach
- Designing for non-technical audiences is a challenge