Opinion Miner: Fine-grained sentiment analysis and dissection of unstructured user content
A wealth of unstructured opinion data exists online – data that was, until now, unusable. Such data is growing all the time. We add to it daily when we talk about our likes and dislikes on social media and elsewhere on the web. We do so in an honest and unsolicited manner, expressing our true feelings towards a brand, a politician, or a global event. Some software can tell you the overall sentiment users are expressing towards certain products, movies or events, but not how. The Internet offers mixed reviews of iPhone X, but is it the price, design, or the AI technology that is controversial? With Opinion Miner, you can dive into each aspect of a given topic and fully comprehend the drivers behind public sentiment.
Spotify Mobile Ad Selector
Mobile Ad Selector is a new interactive ad format to be built on Spotify’s mobile platforms. The new format seeks to both drive revenue for Spotify as well as improve user experience on the mobile free-tier. Mobile Ad Selector will be a dynamic view that integrates video, audio, animation, and user interaction. The project includes the preliminary designs, prototypes, user tests, and analyses of user and advertiser value.
JoltViz, earthquake data visualization tool http://joltviz.pro
JoltViz is an earthquake data visualization tool that focuses on modern user interface, user experience, and responsive design. The web application searches and returns earthquake information using published USGS API on earthquakes. The three main features of JoltViz are earthquake distribution, graphical charting, and map projections. Earthquake distribution shows the location of earthquakes grouped by magnitude. When the user hovers over a magnitude number, all earthquakes plotted on the map that has that magnitude are highlighted and animated. Graphical charting can display either a bar chart or a line chart, in an hourly, daily, or monthly manner. Map projections can make visualization more exciting and engaging for the users as they customize how earthquakes are plotted on some of the more popular map projections. This web app was built mainly using Javascript, CSS3, and HTML5, the ubiquitous technologies used to develop modern web applications. jQuery library and Bootstrap plugins are used to make it easier and simpler to code UI elements, while D3.js is used to code the mapping and charting components of the application. JoltViz makes earthquake visualization more interesting and highly engaging.
Tickle Wizard
Tickle Wizard is a WordPress plugin for omnichannel communication blasts such as custom notifications, alerts, announcements, and reminders. When WordPress was released in 2003, everyone used email to communicate. Tickle Wizard modernizes the WordPress communication footprint by adding chat, social, mobile communication capabilities. The work in this project covers early phase UX planning, testing and discovery, including user flows, wireframes and a working prototype. While Tickle Wizard technology has the potential for broad application, a test case was developed around the communication needs of small to medium sized private schools.
CHZMONGR: an interactive cheese tracking and rating solution for cheese connoisseurs www.chzmongr.com
A cheesemonger is a seller of cheese, traditionally one well informed about cheeses. Many modern stores sell cheeses without offering consumers the benefit of such a knowledgable sales person. Consumers buy and taste various cheeses, but keeping track of what they have enjoyed or did not enjoy is a difficult task. Since artisanal and specialty cheeses can be costly, it is imperative to make purchases that align with your palate. The Chzmongr mobile platform provides users with cheese knowledge, confidence in purchasing cheeses, and entertainment through a keenly branded, easily navigable mobile site. Chzmongr gives cheese lovers an accessible reference guide for planning and shopping. The site includes social aspects, so users can interact with their cheese loving friends and earn badges as they discover their favorite cheeses.
SBOT – A dynamic web portal for human resources administrators
A dynamic web application designed to guide new employees and HR administrators through the onboarding process. The application provides a secure login, ability to read and acknowledge disclosures, download and submit required forms, and update personal information. It allow HR staff to update employee records, add new ones, upload blank forms, download or print completed ones, and have checklists available to keep track of what items have been completed and which ones are still outstanding. The application leverages the Laravel PHP framework following the Model-View-Controller (MVC) paradigm. The main technologies used include PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML5, and CSS3. The project incorporates the Bootstrap framework for a responsive user interface. The application runs on Apache server, MariaDB database, with extensive use of GitHub for source control.
Finding Understanding: A website for individuals to understand & deal with depression www.finding-understanding.com
Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses in the United States affecting 16.1 million individuals over 18, or 6.7% of the adult population. A little over 1 in 10 adolescents are affected by depression, or about 12.5%. This is reflected in children as a whole, with anxiety disorders affecting about 1 in 8 children. Depression can arise in children as young as 2 or 3. Globally over 300 million people suffer from depression. Despite this prevalence, there are limited online resources for depression and many websites for mental health are static text page based and dry. This site seeks to address these issues by creating a more exciting online experience for providing information and resources about depression. Using jQuery, the Create JS suite, P5.js, AOS, Adobe Software, and more, this site presents information visually and interactively. Finding Understanding's purpose is to make information more digestible, accessible, and entertaining for individuals struggling with mental illness.
Maker Events Social Directory maker-events.com
The Makerspace Events website is a global, social directory for artists to post events where they will be teaching, attending, or selling their artwork. Artists can create a user account, build a profile and log in to their account to seek out events and friends. There is no central directory where an artist can go online to peruse upcoming events related to their craft or get information on craft fairs to determine if exhibiting at a particular fair is worth their time. This directory will be used as a community resource for artists to seek out events and share event information. This platform is intended as a dynamic artist community network where the value to the user will grow with user input.
Majesty Foods is a food manufacturing company that has been in business for 20 years. While focusing onrapid growth and product streamlining, the company has not, until now, had the opportunity to focus on corporate image or have a strong internet presence. Their website graphics and information had fallen out of date and they needed an updated design and improved user experience. Applying current technology and the latest web development standards, this project encompasses several key skills learned in the Harvard Extension Digital Media program. Redeveloping the Majesty Foods website involved using the Wordpress content management system platform, e-commerce modules and customer relationship management integrations along with creating new graphic content, photographing new images and filming and assembling an informative corporate video. This project aims to rebrand the company as a larger, national food service supplier of convenient, ready-to-eat meat filled products.
NEAMB.com - Website re-design with a user experience approach to online destination for member benefits
NEAMB.com is a website dedicated to providing benefits that improve the lives of members of the National Education Association (NEA), an association of teachers who teach Kindergarten through 12th grade in the USA as well as none-teaching staff that work in the education system. Despite personas being developed to reach target audience and increase member participation through strategic marketing communication, user engagement through the website remains stagnant year over year. As part of a new strategic initiative to target millennials who make up 25% of the marketable user base, the goal of the redesign was to select this persona as the website's primary user and mobile as its primary device for an improved User Experience (UX) design. The outcome of the project is that the website will grow its target user base and initiate repeat visits leading to conversion as a pleasurable UX leads to intention to return, and return visits leads to engagement and ultimately participation in member benefits offerings through the website.
Ifishent - An iOS application to improve employee productivity
The American business culture expects and rewards long hours at work. Overworking leads to numerous health issues and work inefficiencies. Ifishent is an iOS application to improve employee productivity by allocating time to individual tasks and prompting users when to take necessary breaks. The application will minimize overworking by creating a fixed time period to complete a specific task. Tasks entered into the application will be named and recorded. Relevant technologies required to create this application are HTML5, JavaScript, MySQL and PHP. The mobile application is constructed as a single page application and deployed on an iOS device. The API is written in PHP and hosted on Amazon Web Services.
Boston Fare Hikes - a navigational web exhibition of hiking destinations and green recreational spaces accessible by MBTA. www.bostonfarehikes.com
Taking advantage of public transportation not only reduces our collective carbon footprint, it also curbs traffic and saves money. Combining those benefits with the endorphin-boosting effects of exercise and nature, Boston Fare Hikes aims to make the Greater Boston area a happier place. The web application relies on Google Maps Javascript APIs to provide maps and public transportation directions, and it catalogs the hikes on an MVC framework.
Pretend Football League Website: A WordPress Application
I currently participate in a fantasy football league (the Pretend Football League) that requires a complex system of record keeping with a heavily manual component. With more than six years’ worth of data, and much more to come, this is not only time-consuming, but also allows for potential humor error and limited sharing of resources across league members. I would like to solve for both the data management and data access matters that currently plague the league. In doing so, I also aim to alleviate some of the heavy burden that is placed upon our commissioner in his role as gatekeeper to this information. This website will supplement our league site, and help to manage the intricacies and historical data pertinent to the keeper format of our league while increasing the transparency of league data.
Merchant Fraud Registry - Platform for small businesses to report and search for fraudulent customer purchases
The Merchant Fraud Registry is a platform for small business merchants to report and search for fraudulent customer purchases. The purpose of the registry is to allow retailers to search for a fraudster before processing a suspicious order received online. By finding previously reported fraudulent orders from the same customer, a merchant can proactively suspend a sale that would otherwise result in loss of product and income to the small business merchant. Online small business specialty retailers such as those selling Jewelry, Electronics, and Tobacco products often carry expensive specialized products that are often purchased online through legitimate means using valid credit card. On occasion, the merchant receives an online order for a particularly valuable product, processes the sale in good faith, and after the customer receives the product, the customer contests their credit card charge for the product. Surprisingly, the merchant has little recourse, since the issuing credit card company generally sides with the customer and not the merchant as one would expect. This unethical practice unfortunately has little recourse from the merchant’s standpoint. The credit card’s issuing bank or financial institution often sides with their customer, the card holder, even after evidence is presented by the merchant of the valid authorized sale. The retailer/merchant therefore not only loses the product but also the revenue from the sale of the product(s) as well. There is currently no platform for merchants to collectively report serial fraudsters, who often continue to fraudulently purchase products on their valid credit card, with no intention of ultimately paying for the product. The Merchant Fraud Registry will provide merchants a shared platform for reporting fraudulent customers and product sales that can be easily and quickly searched. The platform would rely on merchants to report fraudulent charges so that other merchants can search for details on suspicious product orders to prevent/cancel the order from processing before the product is shipped to a fraudster.
Social Media Directory for Wellesley College
How do you wrangle the social media accounts of more than 200 groups and departments? As departments at Wellesley College look for ways to connect with their constituents, many have moved to platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The directory gathers all of the accounts into one place and enables students, alumnae, prospective students, and others to see what Wellesley's diverse community is sharing over social. To encourage exploration, each listing starts with a photo, then opens to reveal recent posts, related groups, and links to the accounts. The site is built using Drupal, an open source content management system, in order to make the site easy to update and to integrate with Wellesley's current website.
DIYWebsiteDepot.com - A resource hub for web entrepreneurs who seek do-it-yourself solutions, courses, and referrals
DIYWebsiteDepot.com offers web development professionals a space to advertise their services. The most important and unique aspects of this website are the featured DIY Solutions. Where typical sites offer its audience advice articles, DIYWebsiteDepot.com offers users a proactive and fun approach to discovering solutions to their problems. Users are encouraged to participate in quizzes which will guide them to the correct solution. Many web do-it-yourselfers are unaware of the true cost and amount of work that may be ahead of them for their web project; DIYWebsiteDepot.com's quizzes and courses are provided to remove the mystery involved in the do-it-yourself process. It is our mission to turn our audiences DIY headaches into DIY success stories one quiz, course, or hired professional at a time.
Whether it is a desktop computer, laptop or tablet, a single person owning multiple devices and/or computers is becoming very common. To work with multiple platforms some of today’s software and services may still require specific hardware or the purchase of multiple subscriptions. Address Infinite attempts to address the problems for one of the most common applications used today, the digital address book. Capable of running on any modern Mac, PC or Linux desktop computer with an Internet connection, the goal of Address Infinite is to provide a well-organized and accessible address book that requires no paid subscription or single operating system. To accomplish these goals Address Infinite was created using the Java programming language, a cross-platform language, as well as leveraging a new technology called the “blockchain”. Address Infinite provides several useful features which include a contact list manager, note- taking, scheduling, historical logging and integration with third-party communication and mapping tools. Address Infinite leverages blockchain technology to provide free data on a distributed platform. Address book information is never lost or inaccessible due to server outages and anyone can backup their data without need of a credit card to pay for a third party service.