Yaxiong "Eric" Shao

Title: Research Specialist: Informatics
Email: yshao1@niu.edu

Eric has web and application development experience, including use of C#, CSS, HTML, JavaScript and Python. Projects requiring Eric’s skills include map application development for Illinois Enterprise Zones and programming for the 60 by 25 Dashboard. Additionally, Eric has created web data scraping tools to increase data acquisition efficiency for teams he’s worked with. Currently, he is working on the Centralized Demographic Dataset (CDDA) Dashboard and the Dynamic Analysis Network (DNA).

Eric earned his M.S. in computer science from Northern Illinois University and M.S. in cartography and geographic information systems from Capital Normal University in Beijing, China.

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