Cook County has high rate of vaccination across one of the largest populations in the country. But now that vaccine uptake is beginning to stagnate, what can Cook County do to close the gap? We used unsupervised learning to cluster Cook with 480 counties across the US, then used Tableau...
My submission seeks to describe the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on civilians using recent data from the United Nations. However, my work acknowledges the fallibility and lack of granularity of data collected during armed conflict, as well as the tendency of quantification to dehumanize those it describes....
Different cancers are dependent on distinct genes for their survival. The Broad institute previously ran assays on cancer cell lines that knocked out individual genes. Cell survival was subsequently measured to discover what genes were most essential to cancer survival. This dashboard uses the “essentiality” scores produced from these assays...
In this video of simulated galaxy formation there are three panels, each showing the same scene from a different perspective. The leftmost is a view of interstellar gas, the coldest (blue) of which will eventually form into stars like the Sun. In the middle panel, which shows what the Hubble...
Lichess is an online chess platform where players can play against each other in different rating brackets. Our idea was to visualize the chess opening hierarchy by experience level on the Lichess platform catered to beginner to advanced chess players. Chess openings are specific sequences of moves played by both...
This dissertation is a collection of three papers on synthesizing and translating statistical evidence in education research. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction and executive summary, and Chapters 2 - 4 contain the three substantive papers respectively. Chapter 2 presents methods for pooling sample variances across studies to improve properties...
Visualization is a powerful tool to help people better communicate and understand data. But the perception and interpretation of data is riddled with bias. Data visualizations are ambiguous objects such that different people viewing the same visualization can come to different conclusions. The ambiguity is likely associated with people's perceptual...
This dataset contains measures of the representation of women in European National Parliaments. I chose to highlight the gap between the current levels of representation and a target of 50% equal representation. The horizontal lollipop bars are meant to allude to starting points and a destination. A rule of data...
I am a long time Facebook user and decided earlier this year to use the "download your information" feature offered on the web interface. I received over 6GB of data from Facebook and Instagram and wrote python code to parse useful information. After parsing through the raw data, I was...