Zoe Forbes

University of Edinburgh Computer Science Grad

Vancouver, Canada

(she/they)

Zoe smiling wearing a bike helmet, an open shirt, and fanny pack over one arm.
© Hannah Logan

Professional/Academic

2023-2024: Digital Learning, UofE’s Information Services Group
2022-2024: Internet Specialist, Edinburgh Student Housing Cooperative
2018-2019: Maths and Science Teacher, Guyanese MofE via Project Trust

2023-2024: Digital Learning
UofE’s Information Services Group

2022-2024: Internet Specialist
Edinburgh Student Housing Cooperative

2018-2019: Maths and Science Teacher
Guyanese MofE via Project Trust

MInf2 dissertation
Quiz Whiz: A Command Line Tool for Creating Quiz Questions [code]

MInf1 dissertation
Exploring Descriptive Decision Trees: Construction and Analysis [code]

Featured Projects

Cosmopolitune
Web app which generates maps based on an inputted Spotify playlist. Can also be used to show music diversity.

Art of the People
A collaborative Instagram art gallery. Users could submit any drawing they want via the web app to be automatically posted.

Tunes of Lew
A bot which tweeted a random song each day from one of my Spotify daily mixes. Ran on AWS Lambda.

Groove Sixty-Three
Radio show first broadcast on Freshair, then self-broadcast. Final episode on EHFM.

Animation demonstrating Cosmopolitune. A Spotify playlist's URL is copied, pasted into Cosmopolitune, and a map of the playlist's artists is shown.

Cosmopolitune
Java web app which generates maps based on an inputted Spotify playlist. Can also be used to geographic diversity of a user’s library.

Screenshot of two windows. The left window is the Art of the People submission UI, showing a blank canvas and a submission form. The left window is an Instagram page, which is the AOTP gallery.

Art of the People
A collaborative Instagram art gallery. Users could submit any drawing they want via the web app to be automatically posted.

Screenshot of a Twitter (X) feed, showing one tweet. It reads "It's Thursday the 6th of April! Today's song is Stars & Water by Octo Octa. Go listen to it (and all the others!) here: bit.ly/tunes_of_lew. The song's album art is included in the tweet.

Tunes of Lew
A bot which tweeted a random song each day from one of my Spotify daily mixes. Ran on AWS Lambda.

Screenshot of the Groove 63 SoundCloud playlist, containing 7 visible episodes.

Groove Sixty-Three
Radio show first broadcast on Freshair, then self-broadcast. Final episode on EHFM.

Personal

DJ & Radio

Picture of Zoe djing. There is atmospheric red lighting, and she is concentrating on the decks.
© Jules Lacave-Fontourcy

Road & Courier Cycling

Picture of Zoe cycling. There is motion blur, and she is rounding a corner on a road bike.
© Róbert Árendás

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Gmail: zoeforbes00

Mobile: +1 (778)-917-[23 x 233]