Programming Projects
Programming Projects
This project was for my Software Design and Development course at Grinnell College. I worked in a group where we wanted to create a nice app that based of the data set from the Global Fishing Watch. The goal of the app was to provide nice visualizations to inform people of the fishing done around the world. We did the tidying of the data so you don't have to.
I worked mostly on the implementation of the couple of visualizations that we included on our app. All of the programming was completed in R and posted onto the Shiny.io server. We encountered a few problems dealing with the dataset (primarily its size). Be sure to check out the app to read up more about the fishing done around the world.
I started this project as an attempt to utilize my knowledge about artificial intelligence. I was taking an artificial intelligence course as well as an object oriented programming class. The OOP class had a final project and I wanted to try my hand at a solver method for the eight puzzle. I wanted to use an A* search algorithm that would make the best move based on the manhattan distance of the pieces from the goal target as well as the displacement of them. It was quite the challenge with the time frame that I had but it was a lot of fun. Coding allows me to be creative with my solutions.