Travelust - Tableau Information Visualization

Travelust is an interactive online information visualization that helps travelers budget their trips. It provides information about the costs of travel to the 79 most popular destinations in the world. As a Tableau Public data visualization, Travelust helps people make informed decisions about trips to the world’s top 79 city destinations.The main goals of Travelust are to:

• Allow users to view travel costs in various cities depending on the user’s spending preferences (budget, midrange, and luxurious).
• Offer cost breakdown of selected cities in U.S. Dollars. The breakdown includes lodge, food, transit, and activity.
• Allow users to compare destination costs so that they can make informed decisions that match their budget needs.

View the visualization here.

Other contributors: Sol Choi, Tuyen Truong.

Share - Location Based Web Chat APP

Share is a single-page web App that encourages people to share items. The App allows users to post messages and displays messages posted by other users nearby. It created multiple micro sharing economy communities at University of Washington. At libraries, dorms, coffee shops, people use Share App to solve daily problems by sharing chargers, pens, papers, and more.

Share is built on Google App Engine, written with Python. Share utilizes GQL to store data.

Other contributor: Yeqing Lou.

Arduino Experiments

Part 1: Sensors

Self built Arduino light sensor, magnetic sensor, LED metronome, servo motor controller, and temperature sensor.

Part 2: Controls

Self built Arduino LED brightness controller with 256 degrees and a doorbell that produce different sounds for front door and back door when the user presses/holds the button. 

Part 3: Applications

Self built Arduino Stopwatch that is almost identical to a cell phone stopwatch. Users can count time, set laps, and reset the timer with this product.