The Judge George Bagley Collection consists of approximately 40 boxes from Bagley’s career as a lawyer and a Circuit Court Judge starting in 1895, when he passed the Oregon bar, and ending with his death in 1935. World events he would have witnessed include the World War I, Prohibition and the stock market crash, as well as significant events in Oregon history. This project started the process of digitizing the collection and uploading the images into PastPerfect5 and then transcribing the documents. Doing this makes the collection searchable for historians and other researchers.

The Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp Archive represents over a century of Northwest Colorado and Modern Dance history. The collection consists of various formats, including photographs, correspondence, and ephemera, and measures roughly 50 linear feet. Series 11: “Scrapbooks”, includes 32 collections of photographs, camp programs, and journal entries that include the school’s founding in 1914. These objects were the focus of the preservation and access effort. The physical preservation, arrangement, and description of these materials was the first phase of this long-term project.. Development of an Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aid is ongoing. Next steps include focused digitization, acquisition efforts, and community outreach. Future work will allow this previously inaccessible and deteriorating collection to endure over time and supplement related collections in the region.

In the telecom industry, the process of resolving service tickets is cumbersome and time-consuming. The support staff has to manually categorize these tickets and quickly find resolutions. We present “Ticket Genie,” a predictive analytics framework that expedites this process of finding resolutions. The framework automatically predicts resolution categories of new tickets and clusters similar tickets together using predictive machine learning techniques with up to 90% accuracies. Being deployed as a web service, Ticket Genie can be integrated into various ticket management systems with minimal efforts. With this expedited processing, we hope to achieve faster resolution leading to greater customer satisfaction.

The Total Resource Observation Utility Team (TROUT), created a data visualization using Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife’s (WDFW) high-resolution land change data. The interactive visualization makes this important data understandable to the public, policymakers, and environmental scientists. TROUT has unlocked this public data and improved access by disseminating in a clear, concise, user-centered dashboard presenting actionable information. This visualization allows the user to see actual changes in the Puget Sound over time with data-rich GIS information describing the changes. TROUT’s use of open-source technologies and code documentation mean the dashboard can be replicated for displaying future public spatial datasets.

A new addition to AWS, not much user research has been conducted on Kinesis, the company’s data streaming service, to understand its users’ needs and challenges. Presently, one major design question that exists is how can Kinesis’ entry points and onboarding experience be redesigned to help drive more engagements across different user personas who may interact with Kinesis. Through this project, in which our team has taken this design question through a user-centered and lean design process, we strive to help make Kinesis a better product for its users, thereby increasing its impact and prominence within the AWS family.

Every day, most of us take our ability to see the world around us for granted. According to World Health Organization, approximately 246 million people have some form of visual impairment and do not see the world as you and I would. We are working on a smartphone application that simulates various visual impairments such as macular edema, age-related macular degeneration, color blindness, cataracts, and glaucoma. The goal of our application is to establish empathy and understanding while educating the user on the challenges a person with a specific visual impairment may encounter.

Our team set out to fill in the information gap between state government and its voters. Specifically, we aimed to provide Washington state voters an easy opportunity to voice their opinions on upcoming legislature, communicate these viewpoints to their legislators, and track how their legislators’ voting records matched their thoughts and concerns on issues. Our app utilizes the legislative data from leg.wa.gov to display to users pertinent information regarding bills and the roll call voting record per legislation. Votify aims to provide a streamlined user interface focused on local issues that will more directly affect its users.

Set a data standard for all the public meetings digital records in Washington State. Create a cloud dataset based on this data standard and fill up the dataset with test data scraped from the city and county council websites. Build a website to visualize the database at its backend. Users will be able to perform queries about public meetings via the website.