Josh Byster
CS and Mathematics Major
University of Illinois at
Urbana—Champaign
Passionate Developer
Please scroll down for my latest projects or connect with me on a channel below!
Projects
UIUC Bus Tracker
Thousands of students at U of I rely on the Champaign-Urbana buses
each day as a means of getting to class. Unfortunately, many apps
to check bus times take too long to load. As college students, we
need this information as soon as possible. This is a simple,
minimalist web app designed for frequent bus riders in
Urbana—Champaign. No clutter, no ads, no hassle, just info. Used
by hundreds of students and faculty on a daily basis. Uses a CDN
and API response caching with Redis to ensure the fastest load
times for users. Please feel free to check out the
site,
frontend,
and
backend
code.
Tech Stack:
Philadelphia READS© Web App
Philadelpha READS© makes an impact on thousands of students each
year through their programs to help increase literacy in
Philadelphia. As a volunteer software engineer for Hack4Impact, I
had the opportunity to work with an incredible team of developers
to create a web app for students from fourth through eighth grade.
The app allows students to prepare for Philadelphia READS
Reading Olympics, an annual competition where over 1,500
participants form reading teams and put their comprehension to the
test. Please feel free to have a look at the
source code.
Tech Stack:
Twitter Support Vector Machine
Recognized by the American Statistical Association for outstanding
use in machine learning at science fair, this Python script allows
users to carry out authorship attribution algorithms on thousands
of tweets. After acquiring an Twitter API key, users can input as
many public channels as they would like, and the script loads and
parses every tweet, generates confusion matrices, finds the most
distinct words, and returns a trained and cross-validated
classifier. A properly trained model can correctly pick between
two possible authors of a of a given tweet 95% of the time! Please
feel free to have a look at the
source code.
Tech Stack:
