I've been terrible at keeping this blog alive. Today, after 4 long years 😓 I finally found some time to write frantically about a project I worked on last year (2024) with the fantastic team at the Open Knowledge Foundation.
In April 2024, I was hired to polish the front-end of the Open Data Editor, an open source tool for non-technical data practitioners to explore and detect errors in tables. This app serves mostly as an easier-to-use alternative to Open Refine (with a lot less features, the tradeoff being a much flatter learning curve and more pleasing-to-the-eye interface).
My responsibility in this project was to work closely with UX to adapt the designs t an already existing prototype. We were using Figma for the UX, ReactJS, Zustand for the store, Python for the backend in an Electron wrapper since this is a multi platform desktop app.
We had a pool of very talented people in our small team, comprised mostly by people from the Global South. You can read about our lovely team here. I am super happy with the result, from the design and UX to the programming and the project management. I think we did a great job and would have loved to stay working in this team had the project not come to an end.
The only thing I regret was not sending in a better picture. I had just bought a phone and sent the first picture I found in my gallery, a selfie I made the day before, so now I will be forever on the internet with this horrid picture. But what's important is the project. 😩
You can download the Open Data Editor for Linux, Mac and Windows here. If you find a bug, you also open issues on the github repo, since it's -of course my horse-, Free and Open Source. Isn't that super awesome?
That's it for this post. Now I'll plunge again into the darkness for another 4 years. Until the next post. 👋
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In April 2024, I was hired to polish the front-end of the Open Data Editor, an open source tool for non-technical data practitioners to explore and detect errors in tables. This app serves mostly as an easier-to-use alternative to Open Refine (with a lot less features, the tradeoff being a much flatter learning curve and more pleasing-to-the-eye interface).
My responsibility in this project was to work closely with UX to adapt the designs t an already existing prototype. We were using Figma for the UX, ReactJS, Zustand for the store, Python for the backend in an Electron wrapper since this is a multi platform desktop app.
We had a pool of very talented people in our small team, comprised mostly by people from the Global South. You can read about our lovely team here. I am super happy with the result, from the design and UX to the programming and the project management. I think we did a great job and would have loved to stay working in this team had the project not come to an end.
The only thing I regret was not sending in a better picture. I had just bought a phone and sent the first picture I found in my gallery, a selfie I made the day before, so now I will be forever on the internet with this horrid picture. But what's important is the project. 😩
You can download the Open Data Editor for Linux, Mac and Windows here. If you find a bug, you also open issues on the github repo, since it's -of course my horse-, Free and Open Source. Isn't that super awesome?
That's it for this post. Now I'll plunge again into the darkness for another 4 years. Until the next post. 👋
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