Eduardo Vernier
I hold a joint PhD degree from the universities of Groningen and Rio Grande do Sul for my research on visualization methods for hierarchical and high-dimensional data. I focused on dynamic treemaps and dynamic projection techniques, creating comprehensive evaluations, developing state-of-the-art methods, and applying these in the context of hyperkinetic movement disorders. I was advised by Prof. Alexandru Telea and Prof. João Comba.
Since 2021, I have been working as a data scientist at MLPrograms (part of OpenGI) in Amsterdam, creating ML models and analytics tools for the auto insurance market.
Peer-reviewed articles
Fun side projects
bike de boa (2017)
bike de boa is an open and collaborative map of places to park your bike. It lets people search for bike parking spots around the city and shows reviews and information curated by other local cyclists.
We've cataloged 3 thousand pieces of bike infrastructure in 50 Brazilian cities, accumulating over a thousand reviews. We've built this app hoping that it helps cyclists get around safely in a country where bikes are not a popular means of transport and are seen mostly as obstacles on the road.
I worked mainly on the android app which was discontinued after the whole application was reimplemented as a Progressive Web App. The website has currently over 200k visits!
Check it out at bikedeboa.com.br
training notification channels (2020)
In my student tennis club, we faced a challenge regarding notifying club members about available spots in tennis practice sessions. Typically, if a member couldn't attend their regularly scheduled practice, their spot would become available for another club member to fill in. However, the problem was that these openings were advertised on a website that wasn't frequently checked by members.
To address this issue, I took the initiative to create a set of channels and bots on Telegram that notify club members of freed positions as soon as they become available.
After the system was implemented - using Python code running on EC2 - it was adopted by over 300 club members and we saw a significant increase in the number of people taking part in training.
fitness tracker (2022)
For the last few years, I've been using google calendar and strava for tracking my sports activities. I do this to organize myself and keep motivated. Recently I wrote a program that reads these two feeds and creates a plot like the one on the left. This script runs daily and sets this image as my wallpaper (click on the image to make it bigger).
This has been a great tool for staying focused on reaching my fitness goals and tracking injuries.
efvernier [at] gmail.com