Over the summer of 2020, I worked as a part-time research assistant in Professor Farid’s LIINES Lab. I helped with a project analyzing the transportation systems of Manhattan by gathering location data on the roads, ferry routes, subway stations, bike racks, etc. (mostly from NYC Open Data). Then I taught myself to use QGIS to compile all of the data into a map. Towards the end of my time in the lab, I began to learn python to write some code using geopandas to process the data into a format compliant with Professor Farid’s Heterofunctional Graph Theory modeling process.

Although I found the work exciting and interesting, other commitments restarting in the fall term prevented me from continuing in the lab. As far as I know, the project has continued.