Hi, I'm Loren
I'm a lead software engineer at The Atlantic, where I work on publishing platforms, frontend architecture, and developer experience. Before The Atlantic, I was a full stack developer at New America, where I led data visualization projects and maintained a custom Django-based CMS.
I don't keep this portfolio up-to-date anymore, but you can find some older writing, projects, and fun things I've made below.
Writing
All→Fun/Experiments
All→Hexbin Maps with Capital Bikeshare Data and MapboxGL
Where did people start and end Capital Bikeshare trips in 2017?
Paper Pong
A game of pong that runs entirely on pieces of paper
Gaze Tracking with RunwayML
Tracking gaze with a machine learning model and a webcam
Twitter Orchestra
A musical map of live twitter data all over the world
Explosive Images
Using 3d displacement effects on 2d images for fun and (no) profit
Estimating Human Pose in the Broswer with Tensorflow.js
Work
All→Ranking Relevance
Visualizing the rankings of university political science departments
Undermining Pell
How public universities have gotten more expensive for low-income students
Central America Monitor
Visualizing U.S. Assistance to Central America using D3.js
Women, Drug Policy, and Incarceration in the Americas
A Wordpress site for WOLA's Women and Incarceration program
Anti-Immigrant Legislation Tracker
A static site with a Google Sheets backend for keeping track of anti-immigrant legislation in Congress
Video: WOLA is Taking a Stand
A promo video showing how WOLA is fighting President Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda