Laura Weislo

Visualizing the 2018 Tour de France

Visualizing data from the 2018 Tour de France. Contribute to lweislo/tour-de-awesome- development by creating an account on GitHub.

Analysis of Raleigh fire incidents by type, station, location

Contribute to lweislo/Raleigh-Fire-Incidents development by creating an account on GitHub.

Analysis of Citi Bike trips from Jersey City, 2015-2019

Dashboard showing bacterial diversity

Visualizing bacterial diversity in belly buttons using D3, Plotly, Javascript, in a dynamic Bootstrap-styled responsive web site, drawing data form a Flask/SQLAlchemy/SQLite back end.

Analysis of weather data by proximity to the equator

This project aimed to show that global temperatures rise nearer to the equator. To test this theory, I created a Python script to visualize the weather of 500+ cities across the world of varying distance from the equator.

Web scraping, MongoDB

A web application to scrape various bits of data relating to the Mars mission, collected into MongoDB then displayed on a responsive, Bootstrap-styled front end with Flask/PyMongo.

Ben Spies - Pro bike racer & amateur bike racer

Interviewed MotoGP driver Ben Spies for Pro Cycling magazine.

Songezo Jim living his dream with MTN-Qhubeka | Cyclingnews.com

Some professional cyclists come to the sport later in life than most, and can go on to have successful careers, but most at least knew how to ride a bike when they were children.

Chad Gerlach: A new lease on love and life

An interview with Chad Gerlach, March 6, 2009 Addicted to crack and living on the streets just over one year ago, American Chad Gerlach is now making his return to the pro peloton in perhaps the most surprising comeback of the year.

Swart defends Froome's physiological testing, more data to be released in 2016 | Cyclingnews.com

Tour de France winner Chris Froome answered the public's calls for transparency over his exceptional performances by releasing his physiological test data last week.

Five key points of Chris Froome's physiological data | Cyclingnews.com

Although Chris Froome made public the data of his physiological tests in an attempt to silence his critics, the information published in Esquire magazine only served to raise more questions about the missing pieces.Related Articles Cyclingnews spoke to Dr Andrew Coggan, a professor at Washington University School of Medicine and co-author of Training and Racing with a Power Meter, about what the data could tell us about what makes Froome such a dominant rider.

The science behind the Landis case | Cyclingnews.com

An analysis of Floyd Landis' defense in his doping case.

Beating the cheaters | Cyclingnews.com

An example of writing about complicated scientific information for a broad audience.

Functions Encoded by Pyrrolnitrin Biosynthetic Genes from Pseudomonas fluorescens

Recombination-dependent DNA replication stimulated by double-strand breaks in bacteriophage T4.