About
I'm a Master's student living in Montreal, Canada. I've recently finished writing up my thesis on climate change visualisation at McGill University.
I currently work on two research grants: I'm the Project Manager for an Environment Canada grant using of machine learning to classify Tweets about extreme weather events. And I'm a research assistant for AI for the Rest of Us, a 3-year project developing a model of public engagement in AI-assistaed government decision making.
Over the past five year's I've been interested in the use of web tech to deliver social/ environmental impacts, particularly in urban environments. Since then, lots of my work has focussed on evaluating or building user interfaces that make new technologies more accessible.
News
| Mar 2021 | Co-authored a paper on supervised classification and unsupervised topic modelling |
| Mar 2021 | Facilitated a workshop on civic AI at FAccT ML 2021 conference |
| Jan 2021 | Started as a research assistant for AI for the Rest of Us |
| Dec 2020 | Thesis handed in 📜 |
| Sep 2020 | Co-authored a paper on natural language processing to label Tweets |
| Mar 2020 | Developed a web app for transcribing audio |
| Oct 2019 | Became the Project Manager for a research grant with Environment Canada | Apr 2019 | Designed and taught a git workshop |
| Apr 2019 | Runner-up for best paper at SKI Canada, Banff ⛷ |
| Oct 2018 | Became a BLUE Scholar at b21 and developed a proposal website |
| Aug 2018 | Became the teaching assistant for a geospatial web class |
| Apr 2018 | Presented a poster on the Mercator Projection in webmaps at AAG, New Orleans |
| Dec 2017 | Became an Instructor at Rod Roy Ski School ⛷ |
| Dec 2017 | Started as a Digital Journalist at Geothink.ca |
| Aug 2017 | Sailed across the seas from London to Montreal 🍁 |
Projects
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I’m developing a speech-to-text web app. In early 2020, I needed to transcribe 20 interviews I’d conducted for my Master's research. I built a user interface for automated speech-to-text engines and visualized the results. The app syncs text to audio playback making it easier to edit and annotate transcripts.
The Urban Sprawl Map
A web app mapping visualizing different measures of urban “connectedness” based on a recent research paper. From Sep 2018 – Apr 2019 I designed and implemented the user interface using Bulma. I used npm scripts to manage development environments and production builds. For the data visualization we integrated a D3 and Mapbox to transition between global and neighbourhood scales.
NetCDF climate data visualizer
As a project in a geospatial web class I made an application to visualise netCDF data (an awkward climate data format) on a web map. It uses a python script to generate json data files which are visualised in a Leaflet web map.
Website CodeBen Lumley Architect
My first website comission. Cheers Dad!