Peter Desmet
Open Data Coordinator
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Desmet is an open data coordinator and biodiversity informatics specialist with 13 years of experience building research software, data standards and portals for biodiversity institutions. Based in Ghent, he leads open science efforts at INBO after coordinating LifeWatch and designing national-scale digitization and publishing systems at Canadensys and the Belgian Biodiversity Platform. He blends a biology background and an Applied Informatics master's to translate specimen and observation data into reproducible, standards-compliant datasets and tooling (Darwin Core, GBIF/IPT). A pragmatic developer and community connector, he contributes front-end improvements to visualization projects such as a d3 calendar heatmap and consistently focuses on interoperability and usability rather than flashy tech.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Applied Informatics, Master, Applied Informatics at Ghent University
Dutch, English, French
Stackoverflow
53reputation
3kreached
2answers
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Github Skills (11)
css10
javascript10
d3js10
front-end-development10
data-visualisation9
data-visualization9
data-visualizations9
json6
internet-explorer6
json-schema6
r6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
DKirwan/calendar-heatmap
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
A d3 heatmap for representing time series data similar to github's contribution chart
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on improving the calendar heatmap's visual presentation and interactivity. They fixed a tooltip positioning issue by modifying CSS and JavaScript to ensure it behaved correctly relative to its container. Further improvements included allowing users to manually set the maximum value for heatmap color scaling and setting the start date. Additionally, they adjusted the CSS for fonts and removed an ineffective border, making the heatmap more customizable.
heatmapchartsimilarseries-datad3-heatmap
trias-project/alien-fishes-checklist
Dec 2017 - Dec 2023
🐟 Checklist of non-native freshwater fishes in Flanders, Belgium
Contributions:9 PRs, 27 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 1 month
checklistfishesflandersfreshwaterdataset
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