Final Project Reports and Demonstrations 2017


Marriage and Women's Independence

Nancy Stetson, Rachel Thorp and Monicah Wambugu

report

Autonomous Vehicles

Lucia D'Onofrio, Gabriel Nicholas and Nisha Pathak

report

Abandoned

Liz Lee, Usman Raza and Carina Sauter

report

Bay Area Surveillance Project

Michelle Carney, Peter Rowland and Steve Trush

report

Happiness Around the World

Natalia Timakova and Avi Dixit

report

Movies & Academy Awards

Astika Gupta, Priyanka Patki and Nia Vivekanandan

report

A Path to Random Forest

Yiyi Chen and Samuel Meyer

report

MOMA Mia

Selenne Berthely Garcia, Anna Cho and Malavika Srinivasan

report

Yoga

Divya Garg, Neera Grover and Shrestha Mohanty

report

A Game of Thrones

Lynell Amanna, Nihar Dalmia, Shirish Dhar and Meghana Sibi Narayana

report

Diet 'Nother Day

Shannon Hamilton, Rohit Raghavan and Edward Yip

report

Tools and Techniques

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

Software tools learned in Spring 2017 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.