Indraneel Purohit

hello! so glad you're here. i build computer software for positive social impact. i care about public transit, democracy, open source, and music.
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Projects
Mobility Database Mobility Database - frontend web app for MobilityDatabase API (2024)
TREC TREC - Transit + Climate data viz (2023-2024)
Redistricting Report Card Redistricting Report Card - Redistricting data viz (2021)
Princeton Gerrymandering Project website Princeton Gerrymandering Project website - Gerrymandering data viz (2020)
SharedStreets Road Closure Tool SharedStreets Road Closure Tool - geospatial web app (2018-2019)
Pavement (curb management tool) Pavement (curb management tool) - curb mgmt SaaS pilot (2018)
Pavement (curb rules viewer) Pavement (curb rules viewer) - JC parking rules viz tool (2018)
Prototypes & Smaller Projects
Instapaper Viewer Instapaper Viewer - web app to manage Instapaper bookmarks with AI-powered search and summarization (2024) [svelte, node.js, openai]
Transit feeds ETL Transit feeds ETL - using Dagster to pull GTFS-RT data every minute and save as geoparquet files (2024) [dagster]
Wifi Heatmap generator Wifi Heatmap generator - tool to make a heatmap of wifi signal strength to figure out where to place additional node in home mesh network (2024) [js]
SNL data exploration SNL data exploration - finding the funniest SNL cast (2024) [js]
NJ Transit stops + inequality NJ Transit stops + inequality - transit + census data data viz, inspired by the classic New Yorker viz (2024) [d3]
Avatar The Last Airbender Atlas Avatar The Last Airbender Atlas Georeferenced a map from an animated series and made a scrollytelling piece with it (2020) [qgis, js]
Talks
Switching to PMTiles for Map-Based Web Apps (UN Maps, May 2024)
Switching to PM Tiles (State of the Map US, June 2023)
Championing fair election maps with open data, law, and math (Mapbox, October 2020)
SharedStreets Road Closures (State of the Map US, September 2019)
SharedStreets Road Closures (Transit Techies NYC, September 2019)
Writing
Increasing Access to Global Transportation Data (Two Sigma Data Clinic, 2024)
Web Mapping with PMTiles (Two Sigma Data Clinic, 2023)
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