The Global Jukebox is a research and education hub for a comprehensive library of world folk music and cultural data collected by musicologist Alan Lomax. Beginning in Texas and Mississippi the 1930's, Lomax went all around the world, from the Caribbean to Africa, Europe, the far East, even Buffalo, NY, making field recordings of music from many cultures. He developed Cantometrics, a scientific framework to compare the characteristics of the music and its relationship between the music and the culture. The results are very revealing about who we are and why people make music.

The Global Jukebox was the Alan Lomax's lifelong vision and the culmination of his life's work and scholarship. Now, many years later the computer technology finally exists to present it to the world as an interactive resource for educators, researchers and lay people who care about music. It can be seen at http://theglobaljukebox.org

The application is rich with features and information. It presents two modes of navigation: by geography (map) or taxonomy (wheel). Both allow the user to browse and drill down from regions to specific cultures, listen to the music and view the Cantometric data. Other features include search functionality, tools to compare songs and cultures to discover patterns and similarities, and journeys that dive deeper into a set of songs with contextual information about the cultures, performers, and recordings. There is also an educations section where students can explore their musical roots and create and share custom journeys and playlist.

As lead developer I handle the requirements, planning, application architecture, UX and UI design, data visualization, front-end development, backend and database, and manage a team of designers and developer. Technologies include Javascript, Typescript, jQuery, Raphael, D3, Leaflet, CSS3, Gulp, Python and Django, nodeJS, and mySQL.