Catching Plagiarism:
For one of my classes this semester, I was tasked with the assignment of catching plagiarism just given a list of plain text files. I decided to solve this problem using a Java program that focuses on the use of multiple data structures including binary search trees, array lists, queues, and the implementation of very specific nodes for each of these structures.
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Computerized Poker:
For this project, I have implemented much of the back end code work involved in making a user vs. computer poker game. This project focuses on the use of multiple small methods to achieve my goal, so others can easily just implement parts of my code for their own purposes.
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Playing Card:
For one of my design projects I was asked to mimic a famous artist's style in the form of a stylized playing card. I was given the designer Joshua Davis, who creates all of his artwork through programming. I decided to mimic his style by programming my own project on a platform called Processing. This piece includes over 900 rectangles and over 800 eclipses. Here is the final result!
Data Science, Donor Prediction:
At the end of my Data Science course this semester, I along with a group of peers, completed a final project to predict, using R Programming and given characteristic information, the likelihood of a response to a specific philanthropic advertising campaign. The campaign was for the PVA (Paralyzed Veterans of America) in 1998. We utilized part of the in-house donor database containing 481 characteristics of over 95,000 donors to attempt to predict who would make a donation (assumed to be $18) with a cost of $1 for each person targeted. We tested optimizations of Decision Trees, Linear Regression, and Naive Bayes to come to the conclusion that Naive Bayes, with the exclusion of certain specific characteristics would be our recommendation for targeting donors.
This is the formula, in R, that we used to make our final predictions.
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Type Specimen Book:
Back before computers and all of the amazing word processing and design tools they provide, type for posters, magazine spreads, and even newspaper had to be designed and laid out by hand. To do this and understand what size, weight, and font to use on these products, designers would look at type specimen books. Here is a type specimen book I made on InDesign for Garamond.
Editorial Spread:
Here I used my knowledge of InDesign to create an editorial spread for a National Geographic issue on Elephant Conservation. Although I just did this as an exercise, I tried to make it as realistic as possible, leaving room for copyrights and adding a faded border to remind readers of the signature golden border on each issue's cover.
4am Eatery, Restaurant Project:
These design elements were part of a final project for my Graphic Design course last semester. My assignment was to create a unique restaurant concept and then create a logo, menu, and place mat that reflected this concept. I chose to do a tapas (or small plate) breakfast restaurant in which customers pick one small dish from each catagory for a fixed price.
This is the menu for 4am eatery. It capitalizes on the restaurant theme of "four" using four columns. Playing off of the logo, the headers of each section are underlined by dripping yellow lines, reminding customers of the simplest breakfast food, eggs. The menu also plays on creative puns like "It's 4 O'clock somewhere" to advertise its alcoholic beverages.
This is the placemat that each 4am customer will eat off of. It has four circles, each the size of one of the restaurants plates, where the dishes from each category are to be placed. The placemat also features the restaurants social media and advertises other campaigns of the eatery.
Olympic Pictograms:
Each year the olympics hires a designer to create pictograms. These pictograms are used to label event locations and point attendees to different sporting arenas. They need to be legible in any language, so that no matter where olympic attendees come from, they are able to find their way. I designed the pictograms below for the 2016 summer olympics in Rio. They would label the boxing and rhythmic gymnastics events.
