Interactive Dashboards & Simulations

Copenhagen Property Explorer Geospatial dashboard using Datashader for server-side rasterization. Visualizes 200k+ transactions with sub-second latency.

Google Cloud Run • Web Mercator

Malmö 2026: Wealth Simulator Financial trajectory model proving the superiority of capital compounding over dividends. Simulates liquidation values vs. tax drag.

JavaScript • Financial Modeling

EFTA: Public Records & Evidence Archive for the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Features an automated gallery using OpenCV for facial recognition in archival media.

OpenCV • Python • Graph Theory

KV2025: Election Map Geospatial visualization of the 2025 Copenhagen municipal election, mapping hyper-local political shifts across districts.

Leaflet • GeoJSON

Novo Nordisk Analytics Interactive stock and market share modeling for the GLP-1 pharmaceutical sector.

Plotly • Financial Data

PubMed Overlap Utility Streamlit tool for clinical research. Performs set-intersection analysis between custom cohorts and live PubMed queries.

Streamlit • NCBI API

Data Journalism & Archival Work

DJIA 1929: Great Depression Interlinks time-series market data with qualitative history, mapping price markers directly to archival newspaper front pages.

Bokeh • Time-Series

DJIA 2008: Great Recession Interactive exploration of the 2008 liquidity crisis, visualizing the collapse of banking giants through contemporary reporting.

Bokeh • Visualization

COVID-19 Tracker Aligned time-series analysis and choropleth mapping of pandemic metrics across Europe and the US.

Choropleth Maps • Data Alignment

Jan 6 Attack (Crowd-Sourced) Crowd-sourced archival project using Google Forms with a Human-in-the-loop (HITL) verification layer for data integrity.

Google Forms • Verification Pipeline

Jan 6 Video Archive Large-scale video scraping and metadata indexing project preserving historical digital artifacts.

Web Scraping • Metadata Indexing

Physical Data Visualization (LEGO)

A LEGO Brain A human brain in bricks, every region its own color, cut open to show the hippocampus, amygdala, striatum and thalamus buried in the middle. Voxelized from FreeSurfer surface meshes.

FreeSurfer • Mesh Voxelization • LDraw

Molecules in Brick PDB2LEGO reads a structure from the Protein Data Bank and packs bricks into its atoms: semaglutide, insulin, hemoglobin, GFP and a DNA double helix, one brick per atom.

Python • PDB Parsing • CPK Colors

Map of Africa Colored by ethnolinguistic group and raised brick by brick into the third dimension by population density. Gridded population data and vector borders, straight to studs.

NASA2LEGO • Population Grids • GIS

Fire & Ice Two hands of transparent brick, one burning and one frozen, reaching for each other and never touching. A mesh sculpture voxelized into bricks, after Andersen's The Snowman.

STL Voxelization • Transparent Bricks

Fred Sanger, and a Molecule of DNA Two pictures in one panel of bricks. A field of 18,432 cheese slopes, half turned a quarter to the left and half to the right, so Sanger becomes the molecule he found a way to read as you walk past.

Lenticular Mosaic • Cheese Slopes

BrickLink Catalogue Search Full-text search over more than 130,000 parts, minifigures and sets, for tracking down the bricks a build needs. Server-side SQLite FTS5, so the browser downloads no catalog; refreshed daily by cron.

PHP • SQLite FTS5 • Cron

All of it, with build notes and photographs, at tommycarstensen.com/lego.

EHR Research & Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa (Nature, 2015)
• Linear mixed model for heritability estimation addressing environmental variation (PNAS, 2016)
• Genetic architectures and host response to γ2-herpesvirus infections (Nature Communications, 2020)
• Structural artifacts in protein-ligand X-ray structures (J. Med. Chem., 2009)

Professional Presence