Rajat Mittal

Computer Science Graduate Student with a passion for Information Design

GumBalls

Kiva Gumballs is a processing application for the sore eyes.Those of you tired of working with data in monochrome can look at the top 50 recent activities that people are asking loans for through this rather colorful application.It can be used for more general purposes but here i am utilising the Kiva API.

 

Visual Bookmarks

Visual Bookmarks creates a visual gallery of any del.icio.us user's bookmarks. Bookmarking is a critical aspect of browsing the web today.Tags are great to sift through the huge pile, but we like to distill visually i.e. identify the destination based upon snapshots rather than textual links. This nifty app kinda achieves a visual history of your bookmarks and hence, enables you to navigate delicious using the thumbnails of the websites you have bookmarked.The code for the project is hosted at google code.You would need to create an account on Webthumb to generate thumbnails for yourself. Rest of the config is pretty self-explainatory in config.php.

PhpKiva

PhpKiva is a simple PHP5 library for accessing data from Kiva API.It presents a simple object oriented interface to query the Kiva API to obtain results in the formats supported by Kiva-.json,.xml and .html

 

KivaAds

KivaAds is a simple application that powers Kiva Supporters to design their own banners/ads.The reason KivaAds is up and alive is because the Kiva website allows you pre-baked ads. With KivaAds, you can design your own ads to support entrepreneurs working on education in Africa to women entrpreneurs that work in agricultural fields all across the world.You design the ads and then you take them away with you as a JS widget which can be embedded on any website supporting JavaScript.

Selected in the contest of "Best Kiva Apps".Please vote for it.

 

Kiva latest loans heat map

Kiva Latest Loans Heat Map is the first kiva app that I built.It is a simple mashup using Google Maps API which aims to provide a visual directive of recent loans.The goal was to make this app to help us make quick interpretations of the Kiva data and to understand visually MFI's from which parts of the world are recently active on Kiva by posting new loans.

 

DagSVM

DagSVM is a Direct Acyclic Graph SVM built based upon the DAGSVM approach given in a research paper by Microsoft Research.It is built in Java using the popular LIBSVM. In order to use it, download the dagsvm.jar and the libsvm.jar. Javadocs for the code are available here. Sample code to use dagsvm is here. The code builds a model based upon training data and saves it to a .txt file.This model can later be used for classifying test samples. The thumbnail shown here is generated by configuring JGraph Library for it.

 

WeFeelFine Vista Gadget

A by product of learning widget development at SAP Labs and fanatic admiration of WeFeelFine,WeFeelFine vista gadget displays random pics from WeFeelFine.To install the widget however, unpack the rar and copy the folder to the Sidebar folder(C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Sidebar\Gadgets\).Download

 

Simply Tabs

SimplyTabs is simply, my implementation of Tabs. Just JavaScript and CSS( tested in firefox only though).

 

MyLifeBlocks

MyLifeBlocks is a SVG based visual sketchbook that takes media artifacts as JSON objects and translates them to a visual narrative showcasing the objects and the relationships they have.In this particular example, the media artifacts are centered around me.