Introduction For my mapping visualization, I was interested in looking into the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) development sites. As most large metropolitans, New York City is seeing a rise in luxury building developments but I wanted to look at the areas where affordable housing was being offered to residents. Not only that, but……

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Introduction I doubt that not many New Yorkers know that there are 22 lines (27 if including SIR line and express lines) are there in the New York subway system like almost no one knows how many veins do we have in our body. The over complex MTA subway system is like the veins of……

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Introduction Buying a home can be nerve-racking, especially if you’re a first-time home buyer. Some existing property search tools like Zillow and Trulia only tells people the listing prices at the moment, so getting to know what was the homes’ value in the neighborhood can be really useful for first time home buyers. More than……

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Introduction New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) provides housing for low-income residents of New York City and handles Section 8 housing in the five boroughs. Based on a many articles about the conditions that NYCHA residents live in, it is clear that the city does not provide a high quality of life for those who……

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Introduction When I first move to New York, I was debating on which area to stay. During my research, two of the most important factors are subway stations and parks. I want to live in an area with convenient transportation.  I prefer areas with parks because I like to go to parks on my free……

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In 2017, Brooklyn Public Library hosted Bike the Branches, a program in which the library encouraged patrons to visit multiple branches in one day by biking between the branches. Participants could get BPL passports stamped at each location, and activities were hosted at multiple branches. Additionally, maps were created on Google maps with suggested routes……

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BACKGROUND: On the run to becoming president of the United States, Donald Trump revealed his controversial stand on crime by retweeted the following data: According to these statistics, only 1% of black people were killed by police in 2015, whereas 97% were killed by those of the same race. In line with many critics of……

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Through this project, I intended to see the trend of temperature changing and how temperature is co-related with other weather factors such as humidity, pressure, and wind speed. This project focused on 27 cities of the United States in the years of 2013 to 2016. The post Temperature Growing and Its Relationship with Other Weather…

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Introduction As a new resident in the United States, I have recently had significantly more exposure to the ongoing opioid crisis. Despite it being widely reported internationally, my recent proximity to evidence of widespread drug use, and community-based efforts, such as Narcan training sessions, have emphasized how this crisis has permeated across cities in America.……

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See my work here: https://public.tableau.com/profile/mia7687#!/vizhome/PopularBabysName2011-2016/Dashboard2?publish=yes Introduction What’s the most popular baby’s name these years? Are there any relationships between different names and ethnicities? Which name is used by both male and female? It’s always good to know people’s preferences and tastes to pick names for babies. By connecting name, gender and ethnicity, there are some……

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Introduction Gender equality is a human right, but our world faces a persistent gap in access to opportunities and decision-making power for women and men. Globally, women have fewer opportunities for economic participation than men, less access to basic and higher education, greater health and safety risks, and less political representation. Women’s participation in parliaments……

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Introduction Kickstarter was once a fed a few years ago, most of my designer friends/colleagues who work in the tech industry at least pledge money to one Kickstarter project, and only a few of them received the product they supported. Thus, I’d like to take a look at the Kickstarter data to check some information……

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Introduction of the topic It was an interesting procedure for me to explore the topic that I want to visualize in the Lab last week. In the beginning, I was unsure if I can find any data related to Asian’s occupations around the world, and it is true that sometimes it is hard to look……

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View Dashboard 1 & 2 Introduction My goal of this project aims at proposing the future assumption of the world population by using the data of the global population and density from 2005 to 2018. I will focus on some certain countries that mainly affect the world’s population. The idea of the project was boosted……

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INTRODUCTION I coincidentally got a chance to see a graph of Cause of Deaths in Our World in Data, the information and graphs are really attract me for many reasons. We might all know somehow that a life expectancy has been rising globally. It is also true that improved healthcare and treatments have also increased……

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As the saying goes, the things that scare you and the things that actually kill you are rarely the same things.  So seems to be the case with vaccines which, despite overwhelming evidence proving them to be one of the greatest lifesaving measures in the history of medicine, have been made to justify themselves to……

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Introduction The video game industry is a huge growing sector of the economy and brings enjoyments to many people. For this project I wanted to take a closer look at how video games and am asking the following question: How can I find out how the industry has changed over years and what is being……

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Background Education is a very common topic in the world. I choose to visualize this topic from a specific perspective, which focuses on the female secondary education ratio in the world. Before I find data, my initial idea is to visualize the comparison ratio between female and males and find some insights into sexism from……

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BACKGROUND: Our most recent elections have deemed 2019 “the year of the woman.” A record breaking 36 new women won seats to the House last November, joining the ring of 66 female representatives re-elected. Most of these women are now replacing men who had occupied the seats before them. What’s more, researchers predict there will……

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