The mission of the Island County Historical Society & Museum is to collect, preserve, and interpret the rich and unique cultural heritage and history of Island County, WA to include the history of its earliest inhabitants - Coast Salish Native Americans. For my Capstone, I developed an interactive map that identifies the different Native American tribes and their permanent settlements located throughout Island County, WA. Though this project I hope to provide researchers and visitors a way to interact with information on Native tribes of this area and their contributions to Whidbey and Camano Island.

PitchBook Natural Language Search (NLS) is a general search experience improvement solution with natural language understanding. Currently the PitchBook platform requires selecting from more than 50 criteria checkboxes in advanced search for precise company searches. With our advanced NLP framework, this solution enables users to use a sentence to search for companies fast and efficiently. The NLS general search dashboard fetches targeted criteria based on a single sentence user typed in, and returns identified criteria and relevant company results from database. This project aims to improve user search experience and explore more AI possibilities for PitchBook in the long term.

“Conduct meetings like a CEO.” Many people find meetings a waste of time. The challenge is to enable people to have more effective meetings, while not drastically changing their current behavior for conducting meetings. NeatMeet solves that need. NeatMeet is a free and account-less meeting platform that enables users to collaborate and seamlessly structure meetings. There are three main features: simple agenda sharing, real-time collaboration, and auto-generated summaries. NeatMeet ultimately provides users with quick, easy access to best-meeting practices, so they can conduct better meetings today.

Nevermind is a video game targeted towards youth, that aims to entertain and introduce the very serious topic of mental health in an immersive, authentic, and meaningful way. Mental health refers to one’s psychological, emotional, and social well-being, all of which can influence one’s mood, behavior, and decision making. We found that there is a still lack of resources for youth to feel comfortable talking about mental health and getting help. By experiencing Nevermind, youth will be introduced to the topic of mental health in a way that will spark more thoughtful conversation within their age group.

Create a system that acts as an intermediary between ShakeAlert earthquake warnings and the public, such as schools in Washington State. The system broadcasts earthquake warnings and aftermath effects related to earthquakes in a fast and reliable manner such that students and faculty can take appropriate actions to protect themselves. The system can be easily adopted to target different groups such as first responders and families. In addition, the system determines some baseline latency metrics between different components to offer a comparison between different solutions and evaluate the efficiency in broadcasting ShakeAlert information.

Between the years of 1890 and 1895, the town of Bethel, Maine had no local newspaper. Newspapers are a critical source of local information for researchers. The Bethel Historical Society’s collection of papers from the Herrick & Park law firm is large and important record of life in Bethel during that time period. Documents from 1890-1895 were digitized, cataloged, and re-housed. A finding aid was created with an index of correspondents. Finally, an online exhibit highlighting interesting examples of letterhead from the collection was created to generate interest.

Northwest Health Career Path is a project to make information about health science programs available on the internet so that prospective medical students throughout the northwest region can browse, learn more about those programs and make a decision to pursue a medical career. We deliver a full-stack mobile-friendly website from the database, servers to smart visualization of health sciences outreach programs to fill the information gaps between students and program providers. The website is available at nwhealthcareerpath.uw.edu.

Haiti Coffee Co. wanted to create a digital platform to connect the entire ecosystem including farmers, buyers, roasters, consumers, and investors who are interested in spreading awareness and supporting the recovery of Haiti’s coffee industry. To do so, we developed a custom Shopify Theme to enable each of these groups to better engage with Haiti Coffee. This includes tools to ease the build and design of a site, a platform for all target segments to engage with, and a way to better manage the different areas of business that our sponsor works with.

An essay bringing to light several of the histories involving various Library Systems’ and Information Technologies’ specific sites. Through stories and questions, I demonstrate an approach to the epistemologies and ontologies I would like to encourage in Information Sciences. While detailing some recent developments in cataloging systems, this essay approaches philosophical questions regarding colonization and environmentalism. My intention is to present possibilities for further opening discussions.