About These Projects

There are a couple of projects I have participated in and here are some highlights. Some of them are still in development and others have been put on the backburner for the time being. If you see something you like or have a general question about one of the projects or websites shown here, please feel free to contact me.

Nulive.nl

This project started off small and is now becoming one of the most innovative projects at Nu.nl for Sanoma Digital. Twitter has become immensely popular as a social media microblogging service, which is increasingly important for news gathering websites like Nu.nl.

Nulive.nl is now successfully gathering news worthy messages from Twitter and posting them in feeds on the website, which enables editors to setup direct links to the latest tweets about the topics of the day. Furthermore, the service shows its users the most important messages and data per feed. This ensures you will always get the most popular information that Twitter has to offer.

This is by far one of the most exciting projects I have had the pleasure working on.

Go to Nulive.nl (Dutch)

WorldMinder

In the spring of 2009, I was part of a small group of students who were assigned to make an application to visualize world data to improve our social awareness about the world. Inspired by Hans Roslings GapMinder project we (Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff, Lisa Ing and Gina Doekhie) decided to enhance the visualization of GapMinder in a more geographical and comparative way.

Leading the group through a two month preparation period and forced to learn AS3, jQuery and other programming languages from scratch, the final result was completed within four weeks. We presented our findings at the Visualizing Our World of Data conference in Amsterdam. Our project was extremely well received and discussions led to future implementations of the application.

Although plans are still alive to continue development of the application, current academic obligations keep us from doing so. However, the alpha version of the application is still live and can be viewed on WorldMinder.org.

Here are some screen shots of the application in question.

WorldMinder Dashboard

This dashboard shows the map, scatter plot, bargraph, and country list in one view, all interactive, all based on the same data.

WorldMinder Map

This map view of the world shows the infant mortality rate per country, with color indication which countries are above or below average.

WorldMinder Bubble Graph

This bubble graph, inspired by GapMinder, shows the infant mortality rate and life expectancy at birth, with the bubble size symbolizing the population size.

WorldMinder Direct Compare Graph

This chart will summarize selected countries and make an easy comparison between nations, showing in detail which country has a higher mortality rate.

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Pharin

Ready to launch within the next month is Pharin.com, a website for pharmaceutical management consultancy. This website has been built on the open source content management system Typo3. Optimized for the client, it enables easier content managing and file-sharing while creating work flow for other clients. Its stability and flexibility are aspects that make the website both expandable and reliable.

Here are some screen shots