Olivia Hurley

Data Collection

This is both a game and a data collection component of my undergraduate research project. The project was a recreation of an experiment proposed by C. E. Shannon in 1951. The site's purpose is to measure the predictability of English using human users as the prediction algorithm. The site collects data from each successful test and uses the data to generate an estimate for the entropy of the English language as a whole. The site and database are currently hosted by Virginia Tech.

Question Submission

Allows users to submit questions to the purveyor of a local trivia game.

Episodes Directory

Lists episodes of a Cartoon Network show and gives some information about them, so a new viewer can pick and choose episodes to watch. It takes data from a source file and uses preprocessing to generate each episode on the page. Each entry includes a short description of the episode, a list of characters the episode focuses on, and a color-coded rating of how important the episode is to the overarching plot of the show.

CSS Animations

This site requires CSS. This is an experiment in creating a detailed animation using only HTML and CSS. Some PHP is used to randomly generate the clouds with different sizes and speeds, and to generate the stars with different positions. No images are used in the site, and no Javascript is used.