Biography
Andrew is experienced as a front-end designer and developer, with a passion for web and mobile technologies. Recently, Andrew's work included a project for the National 911 Memorial and Museum, with the design firm Local Projects in New York. The National 911 Memorial and Museum project demonstrates his capability for developing in high profile and large-scale endeavors, with his work presented by New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, in 2009. Andrew has experience working for non-profits in the public realm, polishing his teeth with a multi-year internship at Eyebeam Atelier.

Description
Web Application

Communication objective
As public discourse surrounding journalism moves online, conversations begin to scale rapidly. When a single article on the New York Times website inspires thousands of comments, it becomes impossible to reveal the collective voice contained within. VoxPop is a tool for abstracting online discourse, and visualizing sentiment through time and space. By siphoning reader comments from the New York Times API through a custom Natural Language Processing tool-chain, VoxPop classifies positively and negatively charged words, and abstracts the underlying reader sentiment across hundreds of thousands of comments in popular topics of conversation. VoxPop allows viewers to explore reader sentiment geographically and chronologically through an open, standards compliant, web application.

Tools used
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator were used to design UI components for VoxPop. Adobe Dreamweaver was also used as an editor in marking up HTML, and developing Javascript for VoxPop. Adobe After Effects was used to create the introduction video.

http://dev.voxpop.tc