Hi! I'm Tola, a computational designer at Google.

My background is in architecture and urban planning. Currently working on developing Google Earth, through a mix of back-end engineering, research, and prototyping. See a selection of previous work below.

1P Research Data Layers
Productizing First Party (1P) Research: Architecting the framework for professional data layers in Google Earth
Research, Data Visualization, Computational Design
Google Earth Solar
Assessing solar potential for any site, at scale
Computational Design at Google
Intelligent City: Parametric Design
Building Design Intelligence: Scaling parametric systems for urban optimization
Computational Design, Data Analysis & Visualization
Data Storytelling - US Elections
Democratizing Election Data: Powering nonpartisan voter guides for 5M+ US citizens
Data Visualization, Graphic Design
Beyond The Blue Dot
Narrative-Driven Urbanism: A tool for extracting individual-scale insights from big data
Computational Design, Product Design, Data Visualization
Estimating Pedestrian Activity
Automating Spatial Data Integration for Generative Urban Prototyping
Computational Design, Data Visualization
wastespace
How can we limit the volume of waste that reaches the landfill & generate employment opportunities for women?
Architectural Design, Research, Branding
design for who?
Context-Driven Architecture: Leveraging demographic mapping to define public space
Data Visualization, Architectural Design, Branding
citi bike access
Spatial Equity in Micro-mobility: Mapping Citi Bike's integration with NYC transit
Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Graphic Design
predicting urban sprawl
Can a machine learning model be trained to predict urban sprawl?
Machine Learning
airbnb analysis
How do Airbnb's active users talk about neighborhoods?
Data Visualization
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