About
yuletide: (noun, also Alex Yule) a customer-facing developer who solves complex, impactful problems specializing in spatial data and architecture.
Projects
Here are some things I’ve built along the way
- The Heavy Metal Atlas. First global map of Heavy Metal bands per capita at the provincial level
- 🛠: Pipeline: Mapshaper, GDAL, Postgres, Tippecanoe, MapboxGL. Blog post in progress
- 🗺: Gridded Population of the World (GPW) v4, Natural Earth, Metal-Archives.com
- Women on Waves: Healthcare access map
- 🛠: D3, Data: Women on Waves
- Isochrone Accessibilty Toolkit - abridged version of a python analysis pipeline built for UNICEF -
- Unicef GIGA Kazakhstan Connectivity Analysis - [blog]
- COVAX Vaccine Distribution Toolkit - packaged for vaccine distribution in South Sudan
- Mapbox Impact Tools: blueprints for change-makers
- Asset Tracking Architecture - [blog]
- 🛠: Pulumi, AWS Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB
- Content Tagging - [blog] - [code]
- 🛠: Elasticsearch, React, MapboxGL
- Route Optimization Tuner for Last-mile Logistics - [blog] - [demo]
- 🛠: React, Mapbox Optimization API v2, Node.js
- Dynamic Charts & Legends - [tutorial] - [code]
- Configurable D3 chart template for Mapbox
- Textizen (now Granicus Interactive Text) - [launch press] - [funding] - [acquisition]
- 🛠: Ruby on Rails, Twilio. Acquired by GovDelivery/Granicus (2015)
- Esri PollMap Template (2011) - [template] - [code]
- Experiments in Flash Spatiotemporal Visualization (2008) - these are emulated in Rust using Ruffle and may not run correctly
Blog Posts
archive of things I’ve written elsewhere
- Measuring the impact of school connectivity in the GIGA Initiative: How we built it
- El Mapa es Poder: Participatory mapping and the historic legal victory for the Waorani in Ecuador
- Visualize and adjust last-mile routes with the Mapbox route tuner
- Texas Disenfranchises Voters: Isochrone Analysis
- New Ways to Tag and Sort Content
- Tiling Data from the Census
- Tiling Thousands of Points to Vaccinate the States
- Build a Ski Trail Map Using OpenStreetMap and MTS
- New Bathymetry Tileset & Style
- How to Set Up an Asset Tracking Architecture
Selected Talks, Awards & Publications
- Architecting Asset Tracking with AWS and Mapbox (AWS Re:Invent 2018)
- Geographies of the Holocaust: Mapping the SS Concentration Camps. Book chapter. Indiana University Press. (2014)
- Knight News Challenge: Mobile - Winner $350k Prize (2013)
- Poll Maps: Design, and Implementation (Esri UC 2011)
- Diverse Opportunities to Compile and Share Maps: Building an Indoor Routing Application (NACIS 2010)
- Animating the Jäger Aktions: Einsatzkommando-3 in Lithuania, 1941 - Association of American Geographers - Cartography Student Honors Paper Competition 1st Prize Winner (2009)
Experiments ✨
- Maptyper: Experimental tool for displaying text as map features
- Nitterbot: Mastodon bot built in Python to detwitterify the fediverse
- Old Website Archive (built in flash, now emulated with Ruffle)
Creative Coding Sketches
- dream pillars
- fractal flowers
- evil music visualizer (volume warning)
- rainy day
- telephone synthesizer
- video kaleidoscope
- haunted island - click for audio, ctr-r to record and save audio
- wave pong
- floating orbs
- bouncing bunnies
- spiders everywhere
- shark week