Erin Fraser

My first test project wasn't law at all, but parenting. I build a tool to find and schedule day camps for kids and coordinate with other parents. This database behind my platform quickly became the largest database of camps in California--much larger than every other site (including Sawyer, ActivityHero, even Active.com). Taking a project from idea to production was a wonderful learning experience. I did not seek to make this a commercial product; instead it was a way to experiment and learn--and help myself and other busy parents.

My first attempt at "solving" OCR. The idea was that I would load up an unreasonable number of OCR engines and have a judge determine which extraction should win. It is an interesting start, but performance was inconsistent and better extraction models appeared shortly after.