Computer Vision for Ethnographic Research
My master's thesis - can a machine read a storefront? A computer vision pipeline that scans street view imagery for the languages and colors of storefront signage, and tests whether they can flag neighborhood demographic change before official data sees it.
Diversity in the United States
California's foreign-born share nearly doubled between 1980 and 2018, from 15% to 27% - but the national story is dispersal, not clustering. An interactive hex map of all 50 states plus DC, with national trends in education, languages, and citizenship.
Quality of Life of NYC Children
Most quality-of-life indices don't really account for kids. We built one that does - a 0–10 score for children across all 55 NYC PUMAs that combines infrastructure access, economic pressure, and environmental quality, framed by who actually lives in each district.
Got a Ride? Ridesharing Equity in Chicago
I expected Uber and Lyft pickups to cluster in white, wealthy Chicago neighborhoods. 42 million trips later, the data said no - the pickups go where the trips are, which mostly means downtown.