John Gómez
Associate Teaching Professor
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Gómez is an Associate Teaching Professor and PhD-trained researcher with 14 years of experience at the intersection of information visualization, accessibility, and teaching. He has blended academic rigor and industry impact through roles at Northeastern, UC Berkeley School of Information, Yahoo Labs, and PARC, focusing on visual analytics for photos, networks, and time-based data. As a former research scientist and startup co-founder, he pairs hands-on dataviz engineering with curriculum design to help students and practitioners discover insights from complex datasets. Based in San Francisco, he is driven to put technology at the service of humanity and often pursues projects that make visual analytics more accessible to diverse users. An uncommon thread in his career is sustained work across research, product, and education—moving ideas from lab prototypes into classrooms and real-world tools.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master Mathematical Computing, Master Mathematical Computing at Universidad Tecnológica de PereiraHigh School, High School at Colegio de la Salle PereiraPhD Computer Science Human Computer Interaction, PhD Computer Science Human Computer Interaction at University of Maryland
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (180)
vega10
chartjs-plugin10
graph-layout10
d3-force10
directed-graph10
wordcloud10
hierarchical-clustering10
plot10
ipywidgets10
vega-lite10
mechanical-turk10
information-visualization10
layout10
clustering-algorithm10
community-detection10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
john-guerra/forceInABox
Nov 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributions:72 commits, 13 PRs, 48 pushes in 6 years 6 months
clusterschartjs-pluginjavascriptnodestreemap
john-guerra/homepageJohnGuerra_deleteme
Jan 2019 - Oct 2020
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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