Final Project Reports and Demonstrations 2020


Environmental Impacts of Food

Ashley O' Neale and Minji Yoo

report

Conspiracy Videos on Youtube

Min Hyung Chung, Chloe Lee, and Lynn Yeom

report

Demystifying Immigrants

Yankai Huang, Ryan Liu, and Yunjie Yao

report

#COVID-19 discourse on Twitter

Masha Belyi, Joanne Jia, and Cameron Lopez

report

Emotions in the Human Body

Sneha Chowdhary, Carissa Yao, and Kimberly Hirsch

report

Save our Species

Sharanya Soundararajan, Mia Hart, and Phoebe Lu

report

Explainable Artificial Intelligence

Meena Kaushik, Mu-Ti Huang, and Victor Grajski

report

Global Startup Funding

Henrieke Baunack and Johnson Kanjirathinkal

report

Oakland Street Sweeping

Yi Gai, Tobey Yang, Anna Waldo, and Jessie Lyu

report

Dogs in Shelter

Chuhan Wang, and Yuanpei Zhuang

report

Roles of District Attorneys in LA County

Chris Kaiser-Nyman

report

The Need for Social Distancing

Hongyang (Bobby) Zheng, Thyne Boonmark, and Wenqi Luo

report

Visualization of Music Data

Amanda Wu, Alicia Tsai, and Tiffany Wang

report

The Wine Project

Yinan Chen, Yin Qiu, and Xinran (Tracy) Wei

report

Tools and Techniques

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

Software tools learned in Spring 2020 were Vega Lite (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: 1. Few, Stephen: Now You See It, Analytics Press, 2009 2. Knaflic: Storytelling with Data, Wiley, 2015 3. Cairo, Alberto: The Functional Art, New Riders, 2013.