Creators: Alyssa Rose, Awa Sane-Darboe, Carlos Arriaga Serrano, & Ariel Estevez Perez Course: Energy Democracy & Climate Resilience (Stephens) This digital artifact is a storymap website representing solar policy research for InvestPR and TSK Energy Solutions. https://uploads.knightlab.com/storymapjs/382cae1b449dd89395f2a82d7fb18642/investpr-tsk-energy-solutions/index.html…
Category: Fall 2021
City Walk: Urban Theory in Action
Creator: Xianjie Meng Course: Big Data for Cities (Sheini) Our course is dedicated to allow students to combine big data and urban science. Thus exploring the future of urban planning. Also, teaching us how to handle big data. I think my work exemplifies this very well….
Food Inspection Data Assignment & Service-Learning
Creator: Yizhen Zhang Course: Big Data for Cities (Sheini) This artifact contains a detailed food inspection data analysis project. As our class focused on the using R-studio and urban informatics knowledge to finding existing problems about food inspection in Boston, this project is an effective representation of both our course curriculum and our Service-Learning work….
Visualizing Chester Square Community Demographics
Creators: Emily Dinh, Elizabeth LeBlanc, Jiawen Liu Course: Information Presentation & Visualization (Borkin) This artifact contains Census data visualizations for the Chester Square Community along Massachusetts Avenue. In consultation with the community board members, we were able to provide insights into subsidized housing, property types, property values, and race distribution. This project is planned to…
Oral Histories – Intermediate German 2
Creators: Students from Intermediate German 2 Course: Intermediate German 2 (Fuchs) This website contains student reflections on the meaning of their service as well as some photos. Through the service-learning project, the students were given the opportunity to engage virtually with German-speaking elders through regular interviews. The main focus of the interview was on the…
City Walk 1: What attracts investors to Airbnb?
Creator: Owen O’Donnell Course: Big Data for Cities (Sheini) This artifact shows my exploration of Chinatown and the Financial District to better understand what draws Airbnb to Boston, and what factors draw investors to specific sections of the city. This was done so that I can connect the data that I have been exploring to…
Health Worksheets and Instructions for Family Gym!
Creators: Anna Beidelman, Molly Tucker, Kasey Shapiro, Sabrina Li, Ella Philippi, and Samantha Sobhian Course: 1000 Connections & Decisions (Leverich) Our class worked with the Family Gym to create materials for kids in Boston about eating and living healthy. To showcase our work, students have selected some of their projects to feature as part of…
Public Safety Along Mass Ave
Creators: Milan Ghosh, Ali Moeinzad, & Joshua Lui Course: Information Presentation & Visualization (Borkin) This artifact contains a collection of visualizations developed for the Mass Ave Coalition, which is a consortium of various neighborhood associations. Our visualizations are focused on the topic of public safety along Mass Ave, so they show the most common crime…
Connections & Decisions Service-Learning with Fenway CDC
Creators: Students from FSEM1000 Course: Connections & Decisions (Hoger) This artifact details some of the work the students in our Connections and Decision class had the opportunity to do with Fenway CDC, along with student reflections. https://express.adobe.com/page/zxSFX8NyKr5so/…
How Music Impacts Fundraising
Creator: Nelvia Clark Course: 3351 Music and Social Justice (Moore) This artifact contains a presentation given by a student about The Network/La Red (TNLR). TNLR is a social justice organization aimed at ending partner abuse and supporting survivors. The student worked in collaboration with the Rock Ensemble on campus to fundraise for TNLR during their…