Visualizing Canada's housing data for a circular economy · 2022
Data Homebase is a web app that visualizes Canada's housing characteristics to support circular economy research. It came out of the McGill School of Architecture. I worked on it as a student software developer, owning two pieces of the app.
An interactive infographic showing everyone involved in a building's lifecycle, grouped and color-coded by role. I designed it in Figma with Photoshop assets, then built it in React. Hover on a slice and you get details on that stakeholder.
The other piece was a tool that takes raw building data and outputs a carbon footprint per artifact. The hard part was the input: dozens of messy Excel files with very different shapes, one per building. I wrote a Python pipeline to pull them all together, then ran formulas designed by a Post-Doc in Ecological Design over the cleaned data.