Projects

This is a collection of the personal projects I’ve built. Most recently I’ve been interested in maps, experiential projects, and typography.

IRL

chaitour.nyc

Sept. 2022 →

A map of four chai cafes in lower Manhattan

I organize a cafe crawl through lower Manhattan for my friends, visiting four cafes that serve chai over the course of a morning.

Cartography

Emoji Map

August 2016

An Emoji Map of San Francisco and the East Bay

I created a map made up of emojis that shows San Francisco and the East Bay.

Majority < Minority

Sept. 2023

A alternative imagining of NYC MTA subway posters.

Developed during the School for Poetic Computation’s “Alternative Typographic Histories” class, this project re-imagines NYC subway posters in other languages.

Data Visualization

Examining Your Data

Feb. 2017

a scatterplot with a trend line

Sometimes your dataset can have hidden patterns. That’s one of the reasons why exploratory data visualization and analysis is necessary.

The Sieve of Eratosthenes

July 2016

a grid of numbers, some highlighted

One way to find primes numbers is by using an algorithm called the Sieve of Eratosthenes. This visualization shows how much faster it can be.

/r/NBA Survey

June 2017

a heatmap

I visualized correlations for the 2017 /r/NBA fan survey.

NBA Margin of Victory

Feb. 2017

a bar chart of the margins of victory for the gsw

The Golden State Warriors hadn’t just been winning, they had been winning by huge margins.

Websites

Abhivyakti

March 2018

two women talking to each other

I designed and built the website for Abhivyakti, a Los Angeles-based Marathi theater group. The site is a JAMstack application built in Vue with Contentful as the content repository.

Valerie Law

Feb. 2018

a woman standing in a greenhouse

I designed and built Valerie’s personal website, including setting up the domain and deployment pipeline.

Twitter Bots

Generated SF Neighborhoods

June 2017

map of labelling a fake sf neighborhood

Realtors will sometimes rename less-desirable neighborhoods (such as KoNo for Koreatown Northgate) in order to attract more buyers. This bot generates a portmanteau’d new neighborhood in San Francisco and then maps its location.

Wojbomb Predictor

July 2017

Adrian Wojnarowski is a prominent basketball reporter known for breaking news. This bot uses Woj’s past tweets to generate a model that can predict the popularity of his tweets, useful for being updated on the truly important stuff.

Other Technology

Movie Diversity CLI

Apr. 2018

a bar chart made up of emojis

I built a command-line tool that outputs the breakdown by gender of a given movie’s cast.

SMS-Based Grocery List

Oct. 2017

text conversation with the bot

I used Twilio and Firebase to create a grocery list application. My roommates and I can all text a phone number and work off of the same editable list.

“Don’t Call Me Iggy” Reddit Bot

April 2018

Fans sometimes call Andre Iguodala “Iggy”, a name he doesn’t really care for. This bot reminds posters on Reddit that they should try to pick an alternative nickname.

Ten click challenge

Sept. 2018

A Chrome extension that displays the number of times you’ve clicked on anything on Twitter per day. Inspired by Dril.

Photography

Iceland

Oct. 2017

a rift in iceland

This is a blog post about my visit to Iceland, an amazingly beautiful country. I wrote a helper shell script that allowed me to convert Markdown to HTML, resize photos, and deploy all in one go.

Phono del Sol

July 2016

a woman singing with a guitar

I took photos for the Berkeley B-Side, a Berkeley-based music publication, for Phono del Sol, an annual music festival held in San Francisco.

Instagram

Ongoing

sf downtown buildings