Research data is only useful if the people who collected it can actually explore it. This platform turned a pile of experimental data into something a research team could query.

Giga Psych was a collaboration between the PJATK XR Lab and researchers at the University of Amsterdam. I built the web interface that lets the team browse, filter, and query datasets from their experiments without writing SQL by hand.

Because this is active academic research, the specifics of the data and findings are confidential — so this page stays at the level of what I built and how, rather than what the data showed.

The brief was unusual for me: the users were researchers, not customers, and the goal was clarity over polish. I worked closely with the lab to understand how they thought about their data, then shaped the interface around their mental model instead of the database schema.

It’s a React front-end over a Postgres-backed API. The interesting work was in the querying layer — letting non-engineers ask precise questions of the data and get back something they could trust and cite.