About Me
After working for a non-profit organization focusing on HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention in China, I came to the United States, and obtained a Master’s Degree in Anthropology at Purdue University.
I found my passion in coding and data analysis, while I was taking classes in Statistics, and analyzing data at Purdue. I spent hours and hours on class projects in SAS, and didn’t feel any fatigue. Instead, I felt fulfilled and excited. That's why I decided to pursue a career in data science.
I finished eight-week web development program of HTML, CSS, JavaScript in MotherCoders in fall 2016. I am learned jQuery, Python through various online resourses such as Codecademy, Free Code Camp, Coursera.
I am taking six-month software engineering program at Techtonica, focusing on algorithm, data structures, and computer science fundamentals. I built full-stack web applications with JavaScript, SQL, and the MERN stack: MongoDB, Express, React, Node.
Projects
2018
San Francisco, CA
Viztory
Independent Project
- Created a data visualization application to show house price change from 1975 to 2017. Built with Node, Express, MySQL, React, D3, Materialize, OAuth.
- Built components from scratch, including D3 bar charts.
- Features include customized bar chart animation according to different year, state level data and city level data.
- Cleaned and analyzed 16000+ rows of house price index data.
2018
San Francisco, CA
Wall of Wisdom
Group Project
- Created a quotes publishing application to share inspirational quotes within the community. Built with Node, Express, MongoDB, Bootstrap, EJS, jQuery.
- Ideated a mobile responsive single page navigation web app that allows users to post inspiration quotes.
- Led a group of three peers to scope down the project, build features, and fix bugs.
- Built features such as input flow, user feedback, and animated carousel of quotes.
- Used Git and GitHub to streamline teamwork, version control, and code reviews.
2018
San Francisco, CA
React Calculator
Independent Project
- Created a calculator application with React.
- Built components from scratch, including buttons, input box and animations.
- Based on my previous project jQuery Calculator, translated jQuery code to React code, and polished the operation function to cover edge cases.
- Features include consecutive operations, operations on negative numbers and decimals.