Please look below to see some of my work on display. Please note that my work is mostly interdisciplinary, meaning that, even though a project appears in a certain category (like education), it could also be considered part of another category (like data science).
Education
Math, CS and data science instructional posts; pedagogy; thoughts.
Teaching Resources Website
The following website was created to make it easier to support my students in their learning. The site uses the Just the Docs theme for Github pages.
One issue that I find in tutorials and labs is that students don’t have access to the documents that the teacher has been working on (whether pen and paper diagrams, or snippets of code). This results in students not absorbing what is being taught, as they are trying to frantically copy what is on the screen. This is very problematic for coding labs, where a small student mistake results in them trying to isolate the problem. This takes their attention off the teacher as they try to fix their code, meaning that they start to fall behind. This website assures students that the in-class material for my classes will be uploaded later, and means that they can focus on absorbing what I am saying, rather than feeling that need to be working alongside me.
The website can be found here:
My teaching website to better support students in my tutorials and labs.
Covid-19 vs Stocks Dashboard
The Covid-19 vs Stocks dashboard was created as part of a group university assignment. Our team created an interactive classroom experience, where students would learn the basics of data science by exploring data relating to Covid-19 and Stocks.
The dashboard can be run here:
The source code for the dashboard can be found here:
Interactive online lesson for high school students introducing statistical thinking with data.
Cognitive Load Theory Paper
Here is a research paper that I wrote under the guidance of Dr Stephen George-Williams and Dr Reyne Pullen, exploring student perceptions on the impact of pre-lecture quizzes and videos on their learning.
Investigation into students perceptions about the effect of pre-lecture videos on their learning.
Data Science
Mental Health Dashboard
My mental health dashboard was my entry into the Matilda Viz! competition, where university students in Australia are tasked with creating a visualisation that tells a story about mental health or substance abuse.
My interactive dashboard on the tragedy of suicide was a shortlisted entry, where I won the judges choice prize. Judging was based off the following criteria:
- Story told and insights offered about mental health and/or substance use.
- Creativity and aesthetic appeal.
- Effective communication.
The dashboard was created using Shiny for R, and featured many interactive components which allow uses to explore the data for themselves. The dashboard can be explored here:
The data cleaning and processing was quite advanced. The code used for data cleaning can be found here:
Winning submission (judges choice award) for the Data Viz Competition by the Matilda Centre.
Hypothesis Tests Data Analysis Dashboard
This dashboard was designed as part of an assignment for DATA2902.
Students in the class filled out a survey, and then we were tasked with writing a report analysing the data, and creating a dashboard using Shiny analysing the data.
My dashboard and report were chosen as one of two exemplars to show to the rest of the cohort.
The dashboard can be viewed here:
The code and report can be found here:
Dashboard created for a data science assignment. This dashboard was chosen as an exemplar for the cohort.
Computer Science
CLEVR Molecule Generator
The ‘CLEVR Molecule Generator’ was created to significantly speed up the development pipeline for those making software in Unity which utilise 3D molecules.
When added to the Unity editor, users can utilise an easy to use scripting language to easily generate whatever 3D molecules they’d like. The alternative is manually moving around the primitive shapes in Unity, which is an arduous and timely procedure.
This software was presented at a symposium for year 11 and 12 high school teachers in NSW Australia:
Moller, J., Wilkinson, S., Elton, T. J., George-Williams, S., Pullen, R. (2022). How can we utilise digital 3D modelling tools to support the development of chemistry students? Stage 6 Conference 2022: a Deep Dive Into ST6 Pedagogy, Online.
Molecule generator to support chemistry education VR projects.