Blog posts

2021

Visualizing and Analyzing Bicycle Infrastructure using OSMnx

6 minute read

Published: April 10, 2021

I’ve commuted by bicycle for over 6 years. After moving to Chicago for graduate school, I quickly came to appreciate the dedicated lakefront bike trail. Bike trails and bike lanes make commuting much safer and more enjoyable. However, some cities do a better job than others at building this infrastructure. The goal of this project is to visualize cycleway networks and find the most and least bikeable US cities. Check out the Github repo here!

2020

Interactive generative line art app using Bokeh and Numpy

6 minute read

Published: November 05, 2020

I created an interactive generative line art creator in Python with the Bokeh library. I was inspired by the “Locations of Lines” artworks by Sol LeWitt I recently saw at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art.

Plotting timecourse of coefficients from EEG classification model using scipy.interpolate and matplotlib.animation

4 minute read

Published: October 29, 2020

This post outlines a python script I wrote that takes in coefficients from a series of EEG classification models and projects the coefficients back on the scalp over time using scipy.interpolate and matplotlib.animation.

William Thyer