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   <h1>About</h1>
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    I currently work at Google, as part of Google Maps.
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    I co-founded <a href="http://courbanize.com">coUrbanize</a>, a startup in Cambridge, MA. coUrbanize provides an online platform for cities and property developers to share project information with residents. I worked as a data scientist and led the technical team from 2013-2016.<br><br>

    I am interested in how technology can be used to achieve greater sustainability and societal equality. I have a PhD (2012) and Masters (2008) from the <a href="http://mit.edu/">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT), and a Bachelors (2006) from <a href="http://ucd.ie">University College Dublin</a>. At MIT I worked with <a href="http://architecture.mit.edu/faculty/john-fernandez">John Fernandez</a> on the topic of urban metabolism, focusing on neighborhood scale analysis. I developed analysis methods to perform large scale statistical analysis of urban parameters, and related these parameters to energy and material use.<br><br>

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  <h1>Blog Posts</h1>
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  <h1>Projects / Experience</h1>
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    <li><span>Dec 2012</span> &raquo; <a href="http://courbanize.com">coUrbanize</a></li>
     <li><span>Aug 2012</span> &raquo; <i>urbmet</i> (custom web-based geospatial analysis tools)</li>
    <li><span>May 2012</span> &raquo; <a href="http://urbmet.org">Neighborhood Visualizer</a></li>
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  <h2>Side Projects</h2>
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    <!-- <li><span>Jan 2013</span> &raquo; <a href="http://mappingdemocracy.ie">Mapping Democracy</a></li> -->
    <li><span>Oct 2013</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.summary">Who's Afraid of Peer Review?</a> | [data-viz]</li>
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  <h1>Theses</h1>
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    <li><span>Jun 2012</span> &raquo; PhD: <a href="http://djq.me/files/2012_June_Quinn_phd_small.pdf">Estimating Material and Energy
Intensities of Urban Areas</a></li>
    <li><span>Jun 2008</span> &raquo; Masters: <a href="http://djq.me/files/2008_May_Thesis_DQ.pdf">Modeling the Resource Consumption of Housing in New Orleans using System Dynamics</a></li>
    <li><span>May 2005</span> &raquo; Undergraduate: <a href="http://djq.me/files/2005_May_JOD_DQ.pdf">An Investigation of Hemp and Lime as a Building 
Material</a></li>
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    <li><span>Oct 2014</span> &raquo; <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148114003681">Solar energy and urban morphology: Scenarios for increasing the renewable energy potential of neighbourhoods in London</a></li>
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