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}
},
"id": "coll-media-linkyeg"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Edmontonian creates app to help people in need find Edmonton services\", MetroNews",
"type": "media-mention",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2015
}
},
"id": "media-linkyeg-metronews"
},
{
"finalText": "\"'That's power for people:' New app aims to help Edmonton's less fortunate\", Global News (https://globalnews.ca/news/2387805/thats-power-for-people-new-app-aims-to-help-edmontons-less-fortunate/)",
"type": "media-mention",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2015
}
},
"id": "media-linkyeg-global"
},
{
"finalText": "World Bank Human Capital Index Plus (https://humancapital.worldbank.org/hciplus/): Insights and dashboard for the WB Group's new HCI+ initiative",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2025
},
"end": "ongoing"
},
"id": "proj-worldbank-hciplus"
},
{
"finalText": "Canadian Open Data Directory (https://directory.opendatasociety.ca): Fully bilingual dataset & directory of Open Data producing organizations in Canada.",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2025
}
},
"id": "proj-cods-directory"
},
{
"finalText": "Minerals Exploration and Development visualizations (https://natural-resources.canada.ca/mining-statistics/exploration/at-a-glance): Federal government (NRCan) site that is responsive, bilingual, accessible",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2024
}
},
"id": "proj-nrcan-minerals"
},
{
"finalText": "MSc Thesis Materials (https://ideaowl.com/thesis/): Academic publications, code-driven slides, interactive plots + data",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2023
}
},
"id": "proj-msc-thesis"
},
{
"finalText": "This is Edmonton (https://thisisyeg.dha.io): Interactive 3D map and dashboard visualizing Edmonton demographics using Tableau",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2022
}
},
"id": "proj-this-is-edmonton"
},
{
"finalText": "500km of Google Streetview (https://ideaowl.com/s/bike360/): A project to cover bike routes with Google Streetview footage",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2022
}
},
"id": "proj-500km-streetview"
},
{
"finalText": "TrackTheRecovery.org (https://tracktherecovery.org): Track the economic impact of COVID on people, businesses, communities across the US in real time",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2020
}
},
"id": "proj-track-recovery"
},
{
"finalText": "The Opportunity Atlas (https://opportunityatlas.org): Visualizing upward mobility by location, race, and gender for 20M Americans across 30 years",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018,
"month": 10
}
},
"id": "proj-opportunity-atlas"
},
{
"finalText": "The MDP Playground (https://mdp.ai): Generating, analyzing, and visualizing Markov Chains for debugging and more robust benchmarking",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "proj-mdp-playground"
},
{
"finalText": "A Century of Growth in 6 Seconds (https://globalnews.ca/news/4328283/edmonton-urban-sprawl-population-growth-map/): A 6 second animated GIF showing a century of city growth, covered by the CBC",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "proj-century-of-growth"
},
{
"finalText": "AI vs Human Puzzle Choices: Web version of puzzles from The Witness game for comparing human performance with AI-selected puzzles",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "proj-ai-puzzle-choices"
},
{
"finalText": "Comparing Property Assessments (https://assess.dha.io): Storytelling and dynamically visualizing hundreds of thousands of buildings",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2017
}
},
"id": "proj-property-assessments"
},
{
"finalText": "MapInSeconds.com (https://mapinseconds.com): Create choropleth maps in seconds by pasting spreadsheet data",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2016
}
},
"id": "proj-map-in-seconds"
},
{
"finalText": "A Million Baby Names (https://babynames.dha.io): A storytelling approach in highlighting patterns of baby names in Alberta",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2015
}
},
"id": "proj-baby-names"
},
{
"finalText": "LinkYEG.ca (https://linkyeg.ca): A fork of Link-SF connecting homeless and low-income residents with critical resources nearby",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2015
}
},
"id": "proj-linkyeg"
},
{
"finalText": "World Chat Clock (https://ideaowl.com/s/worldchatclock/): Schedule meetings across continents without needing to know anything about time zones",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2014
}
},
"id": "proj-world-chat-clock"
},
{
"finalText": "#hackYEG Budget Visualization (https://ideaowl.com/s/hackyeg-budget/): A unique visualization showing the net revenue/costs for each department and branch",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2014
}
},
"id": "proj-hackyeg-budget"
},
{
"finalText": "Hockey (NHL) Impact (https://hockeyimpact.darkhorseanalytics.com/): Do metrics like payroll, penalty minutes, save % impact NHL performance?",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2013
}
},
"id": "proj-nhl-impact"
},
{
"finalText": "Hands-on, Half/Full-Day Technical Workshops for Non-Technical Audiences",
"type": "collection",
"date": {},
"id": "coll-hands-on-gen-ai-workshops"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Build Your Own Dashboard, App, or Game Using Generative AI\", Tech Yukon AI & Data Series, Whitehorse, Yukon",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2025
}
},
"id": "pres-hands-on-gen-ai-building-workshop-25"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Build Your Own Dashboard or App Using Generative AI\", Canadian Open Data Summit, Fredericton, New Brunswick",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2025
}
},
"id": "pres-gov-tech-gen-ai-workshop-25"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Generative AI Create-a-thon\", AI + Data Learning Series for Tech Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2024
}
},
"id": "pres-ai-createathon"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Data, AI, and Art: Viral + Impactful Visualizations\", AI + Data Learning Series for Tech Yukon, Whitehorse, Yukon",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2024
}
},
"id": "pres-ai-data-art"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Generative AI Learn & Create-a-thon\", Canadian Open Data Summit, Edmonton",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2024
}
},
"id": "pres-lead-in-summit-2024"
},
{
"finalText": "\"AI Goldilocks and the 3 Billion Puzzles\", AAAI Conference on AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment, Salt Lake City",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2023
}
},
"id": "pres-aiide-2023"
},
{
"finalText": "\"AI & the Creative Impulse: An Opportunity & A Dilemma\", Capital City Art",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2023
}
},
"id": "pres-ai-creative-impulse"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Exploring ChatGPT *Live*, with Useful, Wacky, and Scary Examples\", International Open Data Day",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2023
}
},
"id": "pres-chatgpt-live"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Impactful Visualizations and How to Create Them\", Canadian Open Data Summit, Victoria, BC",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2023
}
},
"id": "pres-impactful-viz-victoria"
},
{
"finalText": "\"How to Use Visualization to Get Your Work Noticed (and Understood)\", Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Talent Program",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2023
}
},
"id": "pres-amii-talent"
},
{
"finalText": "\"What I Wish I Knew as a Grad Student\", Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute as Part of the U of A CompSci CMPUT 603",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2023
}
},
"id": "pres-grad-student-advice"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Crowdsourcing Ideas for a National Hackathon + Learn-a-thon\", Canadian Open Data Summit, Whitehorse, Yukon",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2022
}
},
"id": "pres-hackathon-crowdsource"
},
{
"finalText": "\"From Idea to Perfect Pitching and Feedback\", Data-Driven Entrepreneurship & Innovation Program, Whitehorse, Yukon",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2022
}
},
"id": "pres-pitching-feedback"
},
{
"finalText": "\"(Top) 30 Visualizations that Blew My Mind and Will Inspire You\", Canadian Open Data Summit, Virtual",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2021
}
},
"id": "pres-30-visualizations"
},
{
"finalText": "\"How to Get People Excited (About Your Data)\", Canadian Open Data Summit, Virtual",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2021
}
},
"id": "pres-get-people-excited"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Outcomes and Learnings from Five Years of Local Civic Tech Innovation and Engagement\", Code For Canada Showcase",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2019
}
},
"id": "pres-code-for-canada"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Achieving Sustainable, Transparent, and Efficient Outcomes with AI\", OGP Global Summit",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2019
}
},
"id": "pres-ogp-moderator"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Visualizing Python Data using Socket.io\", EdmontonPY Meetup",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2019
}
},
"id": "pres-python-socketio"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Getting Started with Open Data Workshop\", International Open Data Day at the Edmonton Public Library",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2019
}
},
"id": "pres-open-data-workshop-2019"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Hands-on Workshops on d3 and Tableau\", StudentDevCon (Conference for Post-Secondary Students)",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "pres-d3-tableau-workshops"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Build your own Beautiful, Detailed, and Interactive Map in 4 Hours\", OpenVisConf, Paris",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "pres-openvisconf"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Mapping the Crisis in Affordable Housing\", Locate (Mapbox conference), San Francisco",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "pres-locate"
},
{
"finalText": "\"JS to D3\", Exchange.js (Edmonton's Javascript Meetup)",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "pres-js-to-d3"
},
{
"finalText": "\"mdp.ai: Dancing, Colourful MDPs for Research & Fun\", Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute Tea Time Talk",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "pres-mdp-tea-time"
},
{
"finalText": "Best Lightning Talk, International Open Data Day at the Edmonton Public Library",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "award-lightning-talk"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Visualizations Driving Decisions\", Canadian Open Data Summit, Niagara Falls",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "pres-viz-driving-decisions"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Making Boring Charts Beautiful Workshop\", International Open Data Day at the Edmonton Public Library",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "pres-boring-charts-beautiful"
},
{
"finalText": "\"The Hidden Ways Open Data Transforms Society through Innovation\", Canadian Open Data Summit",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2017
}
},
"id": "pres-open-data-transforms"
},
{
"finalText": "\"A Taste of D3: Why, What's Possible, and... How!\", BetaCity YEG, Jobber, Grant MacEwan University",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2016
}
},
"id": "pres-taste-of-d3"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Make Your Open Data Dance with D3 Workshop\", Alberta Open Data Summit & University of Alberta",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2016
}
},
"id": "pres-d3-workshop-alberta"
},
{
"finalText": "Presenter, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Academic Conference, Beijing",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2007,
"month": 8
}
},
"id": "part-hpair-beijing"
},
{
"finalText": "Presenter, International Convention for Quality Control Circles (ICQCC), Lucknow, India",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2002
}
},
"id": "part-icqcc"
},
{
"finalText": "Nominated for Best Paper, Top 3 (of 75+ submissions) with Entropy as a Measure of Puzzle Difficulty",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2023
}
},
"id": "award-best-paper-nomination"
},
{
"finalText": "Winner, Unorthodox Prize at Hack-GPT, Edmonton's LLM Hackathon (think ChatGPT)",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2023
}
},
"id": "award-hackgpt"
},
{
"finalText": "Winner, Single-Button Category, BCI (brain Computer Interface) Game Jam 2022",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2022
}
},
"id": "award-bci-game-jam"
},
{
"finalText": "Shortlist, Information is Beautiful Awards for assess.dha.io (https://assess.dha.io)",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "award-iba-property-assessments"
},
{
"finalText": "Best Lightning Talk, on \"Data Looks Better Naked\" at International Open Data Day at the Edmonton Public Library",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2018
}
},
"id": "award-lightning-talk"
},
{
"finalText": "Best Overall and Audience Pick, Exchange.js Showcase (Edmonton's Javascript Meetup)",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2017
}
},
"id": "award-exchangejs"
},
{
"finalText": "Longlist, Information is Beautiful Awards for MapInSeconds.com (https://mapinseconds.com)",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2016
}
},
"id": "award-iba-map-in-seconds"
},
{
"finalText": "Winner, Edmonton's Open Data Hackathon",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2016
}
},
"id": "award-open-data-hackathon"
},
{
"finalText": "3rd Place, Battlehack Singapore Hackathon (of 40+ teams)",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2015
}
},
"id": "award-battlehack"
},
{
"finalText": "Shortlist, Information is Beautiful Awards for WorldChatClock.com",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2014
}
},
"id": "award-iba-world-chat-clock"
},
{
"finalText": "Winner (over $10K), Apps4Edmonton 2010 (\"The Way We Plan\" with Statistics Edmonton)",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2010
}
},
"id": "award-apps-edmonton-2010"
},
{
"finalText": "Runners Up (over $40K), TEC VenturePrize 2010 (Alberta-wide Business Plan Competition)",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2010
}
},
"id": "award-ventureprize"
},
{
"finalText": "Golden Geer Award (in recognition of years of outstanding service to engineering students)",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2009
}
},
"id": "award-golden-geer"
},
{
"finalText": "2nd Place, Innovative Design, Western Engineering Competition (teams across Western Canada)",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2008
}
},
"id": "award-wec"
},
{
"finalText": "Microsoft Popfly Prototyping Design Competition Winner (Microsoft-wide intern prototyping design competition)",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2007
}
},
"id": "award-ms-popfly"
},
{
"finalText": "Shell Top-Valued Engineering Undergraduate Leadership Award",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2005
},
"end": {
"year": 2007
}
},
"id": "award-shell-leadership"
},
{
"finalText": "National In-Course Millennium Excellence Award",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2004
},
"end": {
"year": 2005
}
},
"id": "award-millennium"
},
{
"finalText": "World Bank Human Capital Index Plus (https://humancapital.worldbank.org/hciplus/): Insights and dashboard for the WB Group's new HCI+ initiative",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2025
},
"end": "ongoing"
},
"id": "proj-worldbank-hciplus"
},
{
"finalText": "Canadian Open Data Directory (https://directory.opendatasociety.ca): Fully bilingual dataset & directory of Open Data producing organizations in Canada.",
"type": "project",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2025
}
},
"id": "proj-cods-directory"
},
{
"finalText": "Canadian Open Data Society (Canada), Co-Chair",
"type": "position",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2024
}
},
"id": "pos-cods-summit-cochair-2024"
},
{
"finalText": "Canada Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Open Government (Canada), Canada MSF (Multi-Stakeholder Forum (https://open.canada.ca/en/multi-stakeholder-forum-open-government)) Civil Society Member on Open Government",
"type": "position",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2023,
"month": 3
},
"end": "ongoing"
},
"id": "vol-msf-member"
},
{
"finalText": "Canadian Open Data Society (Canada), Chair",
"type": "position",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2022,
"month": 11
},
"end": {
"year": 2025,
"month": 5
}
},
"id": "vol-cods-chair"
},
{
"finalText": "Canadian Open Data Society (Canada), President",
"type": "position",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2021,
"month": 11
},
"end": {
"year": 2022,
"month": 10
}
},
"id": "vol-cods-president"
},
{
"finalText": "Canadian Open Data Society (Canada), Founding Board Director",
"type": "position",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2019,
"month": 11
},
"end": "ongoing"
},
"id": "vol-cods-director"
},
{
"finalText": "\"Achieving Sustainable, Transparent, and Efficient Outcomes with AI\", OGP Global Summit",
"type": "presentation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2019
}
},
"id": "pres-ogp-moderator"
},
{
"finalText": "3rd Place, Battlehack Singapore Hackathon",
"type": "award",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2015
}
},
"id": "award-battlehack"
},
{
"finalText": "Student Delegate, 1st Canadian Engineering Summit 2009, Montreal",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2009,
"month": 5
}
},
"id": "part-canadian-eng-summit"
},
{
"finalText": "Nationals Competitor, Innovative Design, Canadian Engineering Competition 2009",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2008,
"month": 10
},
"end": {
"year": 2008,
"month": 1
}
},
"id": "part-cec-2009"
},
{
"finalText": "Presenter, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Academic Conference, Beijing",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2007,
"month": 8
}
},
"id": "part-hpair-beijing"
},
{
"finalText": "Selected delegate, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Business Conference, Hong Kong",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2007,
"month": 8
}
},
"id": "part-hpair-hk"
},
{
"finalText": "Delegate, Cyberposium 12, Harvard, Massachusetts",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2006,
"month": 11
}
},
"id": "part-cyberposium"
},
{
"finalText": "Selected delegate, Harvard College Asian Business Forum (HCABF), Mumbai, India",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2006,
"month": 8
}
},
"id": "part-hcabf"
},
{
"finalText": "Delegate as chapter executive, Optics & Photonics 2005, Photonics West 2006, San Diego, San Jose",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2005
},
"end": {
"year": 2006
}
},
"id": "part-spie-conferences"
},
{
"finalText": "Represented Worldwide Link Ltd (Canada), K-Link International Convention, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2004
}
},
"id": "part-klink"
},
{
"finalText": "Presenter, International Convention for Quality Control Circles (ICQCC), Lucknow, India",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2002
}
},
"id": "part-icqcc"
},
{
"finalText": "Environmental Management Group, Environmental Management Group, Australia",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 2001
}
},
"id": "part-australia-env"
},
{
"finalText": "Represented Canada, Hewlett Packard Global Business Challenge",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 1998
},
"end": {
"year": 1999
}
},
"id": "part-hp-challenge"
},
{
"finalText": "Edmonton-Harbin Sister City Exchange, Edmonton-Harbin Sister City Exchange, Edmonton/Harbin",
"type": "participation",
"date": {
"start": {
"year": 1998
},
"end": {
"year": 1999
}
},
"id": "part-edmonton-harbin"
}
]
}
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