Final Project Reports and Demonstrations 2015

TweetDay
Andy Huang, Daniel Griffin, Nikhil Mane, and Vijay Velagapudi
report

This ... Is ... Jeopardy!
Juan Shishido, Joshua Appleman, Anubhav Gupta, Anand Rajagopal
report

Menu Journeys
Brian Carlo, Carlos Lasa, Audrey Leung, Stephanie Snipes
report

Wikipedia Wheel
Samudra Bhuyan
report

Linking Events to Crime in SF
Bill Chambers and John Semerdjian
report

Eight Days A Week
Meredith Hitchcock, Jordan Shedlock, and Ellen Van Wyk
report

Making a Living in California
Emily Paul, Shomik Sarkar, and Pavel Vanegas
report

The Tuition Inquisition
Alec Hubel, David Eicke, and Yu Susuki
report

Broadband GINI
Hasnain Nazar and Bryan Morgan
report

Linked Living
Noriko Misra (with Kiki Liu and Derek Kuo)
report

Quantified Self: Community and Context
Andrew Lambert, Ricky Holtz, Ashwini Sriram
report

Tools and Techniques

Learning in this course is accomplished via Practice, Principles, Peer Learning, and Programming.

Software tools learned in Spring 2015 were Highcharts (for creating well-motivated, aesthetically pleasing standard charts), Illustrator (for designing Infographics), Tableau (for Exploratory Data Analysis), and d3 (for creating novel, interactive visualizations).

Books used: Few, Stephen: Now You See It, Analytics Press, 2009, and Cairo, Alberto: The Functional Art, New Riders, 2013.