Robert Nakano

Robert Nakano

A portfolio of things I've built — solo projects, experiments, and collaborative products.

Projects

City Council Transcriber

City Council Transcriber

2026

Automated transcription pipeline for Monterey Park city council meetings — turning multi-hour recordings into searchable, readable text and making local government more accessible.

PythonWhisperFFmpegCivic TechData Pipelines
Crunchy Garden

Crunchy Garden

2025

Two-platform gardening project — a community hub for sharing knowledge and connecting growers, now evolving into a richer experience with multiplayer worlds, weather-driven planting schedules, and garden planning tools.

Next.jsReactPostgreSQLWebSocketsStripeCommunity
Learning Trees

Learning Trees

2025

Interactive skill-tree learning platform — visualize and unlock skills through a canvas-based tree of nodes, with progression animations, prerequisite logic, and mobile support.

Next.jsTypeScriptCanvas APIPostgreSQLPrismaTailwind CSS
The Voter Guider

The Voter Guider

2025

Personal voter guide tool — work through your ballot, save your choices and notes, and share with friends or family via a simple link. No account required to receive.

Next.jsCivic TechMaps
Meal Kit Nutrition Analysis

Meal Kit Nutrition Analysis

2021

Data analysis and visualization project examining the nutritional content of 9,750 meals across 10 meal kit services — answering the question "Are meal kits actually healthy?"

PythonPandasTableauData AnalysisData Visualization
Pick a Kit

Pick a Kit

2019–2022

Meal kit comparison platform — browse and filter thousands of meals across services by protein, price, and ratings. Includes a machine-learning protein classifier and a survey-driven recommendation engine.

ReactReduxNode.jsMongoDBscikit-learnNLP
Twitter Sentiment Analysis

Twitter Sentiment Analysis

2020

Sentiment analysis of meal kit services on Twitter using a pretrained BERT model — classifying tweets as positive, negative, or neutral per brand.

PythonBERTTensorFlowTransfer LearningNLPTwitter API