Forces Driving Gentrification: A Systems Map

Creators: Sofia Curto, Courtney Hanley, Mia Hutchinson Course: HUSV3570 The Nonprofit Sector, Philanthropy & Social Change This presentation is a culmination of semester-long work, presenting the student-developed systems map that focuses on gentrification in the City of Boston. Utilizing the systems-mapping software, Kumu, we were able to critically analyze the forces at play that impact…

Access to Housing: A Systems Map

Creators: Sarah Tyner, Hannan Delil, Madelyne Wescott, Natalie Matthews Course: HUSV3570 The Nonprofit Sector, Philanthropy & Social Change This presentation is a culmination of semester-long work, presenting the student-developed systems map that focuses on Access to Housing in the City of Boston. Utilizing the systems-mapping software, Kumu, we were able to critically analyze the forces…

The Effects of Automobiles on Pollution Within the Mass Ave Community

Creators: Ashvika Boopathy, Mia Huebscher, Qianyong Hu Course: DS4200 Information Presentation and Visualization Our website highlights the degree of pollution caused by cars in the Mass Ave community. During the interview with our community partner, Mass Ave, we learned that car congestion was a big issue in the community. We created visualizations in order to…

Visualizing Boston’s Opioid Epidemic

Creators: Kai Beattie, Gina Le, Nuha Manzoor, Arya Shukla Course: DS4200 Information Presentation and Visualization The motivation for the formation of this group is to collaborate with the Massachusetts Avenue Coalition to produce meaningful data visualizations to communicate data related to Boston’s opioid epidemic and its impact on the surrounding community. Some motivating questions for…

Businesses on Mass Ave

Creators: Minghui Cheng, Julia DiPinto, Carlo Dugo, Julia Geller Course: DS4200 Information Presentation and Visualization Massachusetts Avenue is one of the main thoroughfares of Boston, MA, containing businesses, parks, college campus, commuter rail stations and so on, which is almost everything of a city. Our main goal of this project is to help the Mass…

Cornerstone of Engineering First Year Reflections

Creator: Joie Kelly Course: GE1501 Cornerstones of Engineering 1, GE1502 Cornerstones of Engineering 2 A compilation of the first-year student’s reflections on service learning this past semester!…

Mass Ave Neighborhood Input Analysis

Creators: Isabel Silva, Vaughn Luthringer, Mirah Gordon Course: DS4200 Information Presentation and Visualization Our final project centers around the data collected at the Mass Ave Coalition Fall Festival and is first and foremost a data exploration project. Festival-goers who visited the Northeastern booth had the opportunity to respond to three prompts to provide feedback about…