Ben Freundorfer

Work & Projects

This is some of the work I've done over the years. Some of it commercial, one startup, some side-projects, some just to try stuff out and see what can be done with different technologies.

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DataBriefing.com

I've started DataBriefing.com as a single website for first steps in data science and machine learning. If you know a bit about machine learning it helps you through your first real project. And if you don't code, it introduces you to the fundamental concepts in machine learning.

Learn to work with data

OffenesParlament.at (Open Parliament)

OffenesParlament.at (German for "open parliament") shows what's happening in the Austrian Parliament. We extract the information from the official site and present it in a more understandable and approachable way. I've built the front-end and among other things created a flexible React-based UI for our faceted Elasticsearch search.

Research Austrian Legislation

FactBranch

Displays data from your API right next to Zendesk tickets. I've built the product from start to finish including a Zendesk integration, a server and an API that allows people to display nearly any information beautifully in Zendesk.

Connect Zendesk to your server

Timelines for diemedien.at

diemedien.at (German for "the media") is an in-depth look into the Austrian media landscape. I've developed interactive timelines that help tell the story. They're a great way to read about historic events with synchronized graphs.

Timeline for the Austrian Ministry of Health

The Austrian Ministry of Health presents everything they do in a timeline. Special requirements: It has to work across all screen sizes and be accessible.

Try it out

Fluid simulation

A simple fluid simulation written in JavaScript based on the Navier–Stokes equations. You can interact with the simulation and see how it generates nice eddies behind an obstacle.

Simulate airflow in your browser

waterglass.co

A fully working experiment of a guided and minimalistic todo app. It reminds you to check different aspects of your list depending of the day and time of day. E.g. on a Friday afternoon to plan next week's goals; or on an afternoon to plan the next day.

See waterglass.co in action

Encrypted Peer-to-Peer Chat

An OTR-encrypted peer-to-peer (WebRTC) chat I built for ChatGrape. It even implements the socialist millionaire's protocol to check the counterpart's identity.

wirelist.it

Sharable and instant lists. I like two aspects of this project: Its sleek and no-frills UI. And the rather sophisticated syncing algorithm I implemented based on Evernote's syncing protocol. Planning to build a more solid version of this algorithm and open source the client code.

See wirelist.it in action

Visuals

Experimenting with the Audio API. Creating live visuals for music. Works on a broad array of genres. Has a cool effect with music that has a calm buildup section followed by a drop.

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