Data projects
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The Cal Poly Hate Index
About. The Cal Poly Hate Index started as an idea from my groupmate to provide accessible information about incidents of hate on Cal Poly's campus. While struggling to find comprehensive institutional data, I thought back to an audience sourced anonymous instagram account that posted over a thousand accounts of discrimination, harassment and hate from students going back. The account's spreadsheet was locked with security protections, but we were able to scrape 100 of the accounts from the backend to create a sample. I then created a systematic way to categorize the incidents, splitting up the data into types of discrimination, location and reaction/feeling from the narrator. Once our group sorted this, I created several charts to display our results as well as a word cloud and a searchable database for transparency. My other group members wrote a methodology section and created a timeline of reported hate incidents from the past decade. I then crafted a website that takes viewers through the narrative of uncovering hate at Cal Poly and allows them to explore our data in several interactive ways. This included adding scroll effects, animations, adhering to a consistent color scheme and organizing a central story. I'm proud of my contributions to this project and what we were able to create.
View our website at this link or in the embed below.
Infographic (Illustrator)
About. This project's goal was to think about data in a design-based way. We had to use three different ways of representing data and add visual elements to enhance the storyline.
The goal of this infographic was to visually communicate the increasing lack of affordability of housing in California, especially since 2021, by using clear, data-driven visuals and a clean layout. The intention was to make complex data accessible and engaging to a general audience, highlighting geographic and demographic disparities in housing costs.
Design decisions were guided by clarity, visual hierarchy, and regional relevance. I used a bold headline with contrasting colors to immediately capture attention. The central graphic — a stylized house with dollar symbols — was created using the Shape Tool and Pathfinder to merge geometric forms and align elements symmetrically. Dollar bills around the house were added with Image Trace to convert raster images into vector shapes for consistency.
Chart-based infographic mockup (Datawrapper + Illustrator)
About. This project instructed us to make a chart-based mock-up of an interactive data display using a dataset that we found, cleaned, sorted and created charts from. I chose a data.gov set about adult depression rates and designed all visual elements on the page. Notes that read "FOR PAT:" are annotations for my professor, Pat Howe.
Click here to view the raw data I used and sorting, pivot tables and chart drafts.
And click here to view the source I used from data.gov.
Map-based infographic mockup (Flourish + Illustrator)
About. This project instructed us to make a map-based mock-up of an interactive data display using a dataset that we found, cleaned, sorted and created charts from. I chose a data.gov set about adult depression rates and designed all visual elements on the page. Notes that read "FOR PAT:" are annotations for my professor, Pat Howe.
Click here to view the raw data I used and sorting, pivot tables and chart drafts.
And click here to view the source I used from the City of San Jose.
Interactive data site (Flourish + Google sites)
About. This group project had the goal of coming up with an insight that we have derived from a robust data set that we manipulated to answer a question. It was graded based on the expectation that we begin with an intriguing question and end with a data story that is built around one or more functioning interactive charts or maps. I did a large portion of the data collection and cleaning and created two of the four interactive data elements using the program Flourish.
Click here to view our website.
Our original data sources were from the Megan's Law data and Cal State campus safety surveys.
Here is the data spreadsheet we used.
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