Research Associate
My name is Blake Ordway. I'm a data engineering with a background in software engineering. I wrote my first program, Hello World in
In Fall 2014, I started my bachelor's degree in
After a year off of schooling, in Fall 2018, I began my master's degree in
I started working as an intern at
Most of my free time is scheduled around my time at the gym after work. After that, I spend my evenings reading, watching Netflix (or other streaming services), playing video games, cooking or baking, but mostly spending time with my wife. Currently, I'm reading through the Witcher series and The Count of Monte Cristo.
USA Medicare
CS 498 Final Project
This final project from my data visualization class combined my knowledge of D3.js with pre-processing and exploring data using Tableau.
My health data
CS 498 Dashboard
A dashboard created in Tableau showing how my weight increases over a year of tracking. The data used was from an Apple Health export converted using a third-party tool to generate a CSV file.
Text Mining
CS 410 Final Project
My final project for a text mining class. This project combines a frontend HTML/CSS/JS running on a NodeJS Express server with a backend Python application. gRPC is used to facilitate communication between the two services. Multiple text summarization libraries are used in Python to summarize text documents uploaded by the user.
XML to CSV
Scala project
This project was one of my first attempts to use Scala. It takes an Apple Health export, in XML, and converts each HealthRecord to a single record in a CSV file. I used this project to learn Scala's syntax.
Netviewer
IHMC
This GUI displays the current network topology. By using data from another internal software, I'm able to create the topology that it is seeing. All of this project is built using Java and JavaFX.
Mirage
IHMC
This is one project done for my work to view data from a separate source. The project is built using a Java connector to the source, and an Express (NodeJS module) server to serve HTTP requests for the webpage.
Unity Driverless Car
IHMC
The first project I ever worked on as an intern at IHMC. This project leveraged the Unity game engine to create a VR platform for people to drive around a track alongside AI cars. This project attempted to create a baseline for how autonomous systems could work with legacy vehicles.