Projects

###News Crawler – personal side project #####2015

Inspired by my daily technical blogs reading. Develop a program that grab news from my interest websites, open sourced on my GitHub.
To Do in future: Improve the scalability and implement it on bigger cluster. Make it more generic so it can grab more news from various sources, and integrate with Storm and HDFS if needed.
ava Restful, Spring, Redis.

Our team got The Third in this competition
The Hackathon is designed for intermediate to advanced Vertica users looking to have a fun day working on some really cool stuff. The project is sort of Data Mining. Our team of 4 were from different companies and never met before, and then spent the entire day working on the Hackathon challenge.
Utilized R, Tableau and Vertica Database to analyse and visualize the data, dig useful information among a big data set.

###Steel City CodeFest 2014 ####Pittsburgh #####02/2014

The Steel City Codefest is a city-wide app building event that brings together coders, designers, and innovation enthusiasts to create apps for local government, citizens, and community organizations over a 24-hour period.
This competition is sponsored by Google, Univ. of Pitt, CMU and etc.
Our team of 4 developed an Andorid APP which contributed on the Planned Parenthood of Western PA’s (PPWP) Peer Helpers program
Utilized Java servlet, Vector Space Model, jython(python in Java), MySQL
http://yjfox.github.io/2014/02/24/codefest.html

###Col*Fusion - Research Project with Prof. Zadorozhny ####University of Pittsburgh #####09/2013 – 12/2013

Group leader, we have five groups with different responsibilities, every group has 3-4 students
Mainly responsible for data provenance, Restful Servlet between PHP and JAVA, and data visualization
Utilized PHP, JAVA, J2EE, JavaScript, JQuery, MySQL, MSSQL, Neo4j
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###RDF to Neo4j - Course Project of Advanced Database System ####University of Pittsburgh #####01/2014 - 04/2014

Coordinator(Team Leader), we have 12 team members.
Function: Converting RDF into Neo4j; Searching the shortest path of given two nodes in Neo4j
Utilized Java, Python, RDF, Neo4j
Open Source

###CarsFinder - Course Project of Adaptive Information System ####University of Pittsburgh #####01/2014 - 04/2014

A website gives users Used Cars Recommendations. Our team of four implement own crawler to grab basic data from the Internet
Implement Collaborative Recommendation, Content-based Recommendation and Item-based Recommendation
Embed Stanford Semantic Analytics package, which used for analysis of related car Twitter posts
Personally responsible for the Standford Semantic Analytics and Collaborative Recommendation
Utilized Java, MySQL, Stanford Semantic Analytics, Twitter API
Open Source

###Blog Generator – Course Project of Web Technology & Standards ####University of Pittsburgh #####10/2013 - 12/2013

Team Leader. Our team of 4 developed a brand new website that help users to build their own blog in 4 Steps.
Utilized Jekyll and Markdown language to generate blog pages (those two also be used by Github.com)
Utilized VS(C#) and MSSQL to build website

###Accelerometer Biometric Competition ####Project on Kaggle.com
#####10/2013 – 12/2013

###Speech Application – Course Project of Interactive System Design ####University of Pittsburgh #####11/2013 - 12/2013

Team Leader, developed a windows speech application, which is a chess game that users play with it by speech.
Utilized VS(VB), Micrsoft Speech API

###Android Application – Course Project of Interactive System Design ####University of Pittsburgh #####10/2013 - 11/2013

Team Leader, developed an App that connects Android to PC to make phone controls PC’s mouse and keyboard
Utilized Android SDK, Eclipse, VS(C++), Socket(communication network between PC and Android)

###Dynamic Web Development Research - Redesign of Department’s Website
####Shanghai Ocean University #####12/2011 ~ 05/2012

AIEN Institute of Shanghai Ocean University
Programmed a dynamic website for the AIEN Institute of Shanghai Ocean University with the use of Dreamweaver, ASP, and JavaScript

###Student Information Management System Application Development ####Shanghai Ocean University #####09/2010 - 03/2011

Developed an online record keeping system that kept track of user information, schedules, grades, background information, scholarships, and absence information
Utilized IIS, ASP, HTML, JavaScript, MSSQL
Sponsored by school funding

Yjfox.github.io