Sarah Phillips

This web app uses Mapbox to visualize 2024's 311 complaints about obscured license plates in New York City. It fetches data from the City of New York's Open Data API and displays the complaints on an interactive map.

The application caches the data to optimize performance, fetching new data only if the cached data is older than 12 hours.

Obscuring motor vehicle licenses plate is illegal in New York City. Those with obscured plates cost New York state money in lost toll revenue and removes the incentive not to speed where red light cameras are in operation. Obscured plates also hinder the ability of law enforcement to investigate crimes. Citizens may make 311 complaints online or by phone to report an obscured plate.

This web app allows users to select images of items from the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum's collection to be used as backgrounds for online meetings. The user may browse through the museum's collection using keywords such as "bauhaus" or "modernism", or they may download existing sets curated by me.

The background images are pre-processed, server-side using the image library Jimp.

So Trashy uses the data visualization library d3 to represent New York City's Department of Sanitation's (DSNY) yearly collection of refuse & recycling, per person.

DSNY does not pick up commercial refuse from offices, shops, business, institutions or construction sites.

The agency publishes monthly reports detailing how many tons of refuse, paper/cardboard and metal/glass/plastic/drink carton has been collected, categorized by borough and further categorized into Community District (CD).

I cross-reference two data sets to match the community district with the population of each district. Additionally I match the community district with neighborhood names which aren't official city designations as neighborhood boundaries evolve over time.

I used to use Wordpress for my artist portfolio site but I became disenchanted with the constant malware attacks and hosting fees.

This React.js site includes a gallery and image modals, which I created without the use of a library.

The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) maintains a page on their website that lists services outages in their developments for heat, hot water, water, elevators, electricity & gas. The outage site is updated daily, however there is no easy way for stakeholders to download the data.

This scraper extracts the data from the NYCHA website and saves the results in csv tables, within a folder named with the date and time of the scrape.

Twohue is a one-player color mixing game. Players are presented with a color sample that they must recreate using two transparent color swatches. I use the color library chroma.js to dynamically create unlimited game rounds.