The team developed a tool to archive and collect local history in the Boston area. The project aims to foster a conversation about the development around a specific historic site by creating a geospatial data archive. In addition to preserving and collecting historical data in one place, through this web application, the project anticipates people…
Partner: Chester Square Neighborhood Association
Visualizing Chester Square Businesses
Creators: Edward Li, Eninam Takougnadi, John Steinbrecher, & Joshua Paul Rodriguez Course: Information Presentation & Visualization (Borkin) Our artifact is a video demo of an interactive data visualization we created for our DS4200 class in partnership with Chester Square Neighbors. They are an organization dedicated to promoting the health, well-being, and security of the Chester…
Noise Complaints in Respect to Trees in Chester Square Park
Creators: Megan Nguyen, Jisiyuan Cheng, Michael Kim Course: Information Presentation & Visualization (Borkin) Our project will primarily focus on the discovery of the neighborhood’s trees and how they affect noise complaints in the neighborhood. We will discover the current distribution of trees and green spaces around the neighborhood, and discover how noise complaints correlate to…
Traffic Along Massachusetts Avenue
Creators: Hannah Lauterwasser, Ryan Dombrowski, Bartosz Mamro Course: Information Presentation & Visualization (Borkin) Chester Square Neighbors is an organization working in the Chester Square neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Chester Square Neighbors works closely with the city of Boston, the residents of the area, and the surrounding businesses in order to develop plans to improve quality…
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…
Visualizing Public Transportation Usage on Massachusetts Ave
Creators: Samantha Anwar, Chloe Strandwold, and Harrison Naftelberg Course: Information Presentation & Visualization (Borkin) Chester Square Neighbors is an association dedicated to bring together everyone who lives or works in the area. Their goals are to share information with one another, promote health and safety, and create an overall welcoming environment. The organization seeks to…
A Data Visualization of Bus Service for the Chester Square Neighborhood Association
Creators: Thandiwe Tembo, Adam Poole, Justin Delano This project group did a fantastic job of incorporating our community partner’s feedback and creating an actionable visualization that the Chester Square Neighborhood Association can use for future advocacy initiatives to improve bus service….
Chester Square & Info Visualization (PhD students)
Chester Square & Chester Square & Info Visualization (PhD students) Creator: Prasanth Murali PhD students in the Information Visualization course under Prof. Michelle Borkin collaborated with the Chester Square Neighborhood association in developing a project to create a Space and Time visualization for the Chester Square Park, which is in the South Boston (Lower Roxbury)…
Beautiful Data: The Art & Science of Visualization
Beautiful Data: The Art & Science of Visualization Creators: Gauri Dandi, Hannah Wong, Polina Kamenskaya, & Sam Braun This presentation briefly shows classroom activities and the process behind our Service-Learning final project for which we partnered with Chester Square Neighborhood Association to create a report on space allocation of public ways along Massachuttes Avenue and…