Chess Opening Hierarchy by Rating Level on Lichess
Lichess is an online chess platform where players can play against each other in different rating brackets. Our idea was to visualize the chess opening hierarchy by experience level on the Lichess platform catered to beginner to advanced chess players. Chess openings are specific sequences of moves played by both players in the initial stages of a chess game. We seek to answer whether experienced players play significantly different openings than beginners, if the variety of openings changes across rating levels, and if opening frequency changes across rating levels — giving all players a platform to explore chess openings.
Galaxy growth seen through different lenses
In this video of simulated galaxy formation there are three panels, each showing the same scene from a different perspective. The leftmost is a view of interstellar gas, the coldest (blue) of which will eventually form into stars like the Sun. In the middle panel, which shows what the Hubble Space Telescope might see, this cold star forming gas appears as dark streaks. The right panel is an impossibly (in our universe) unobscured view of newly formed stars. These perspectives show the detailed process by which an explosive and turbulent galaxy grows into a spiral disk like the Milky Way.
Cancer Gene Dependency Dashboard
Different cancers are dependent on distinct genes for their survival. The Broad institute previously ran assays on cancer cell lines that knocked out individual genes. Cell survival was subsequently measured to discover what genes were most essential to cancer survival. This dashboard uses the “essentiality” scores produced from these assays to visualize the genomic location of important genes for survival. The correlation between gene essentiality scores across cancer cell lines is also available on this dashboard to investigate inter-gene relationships. While other exploration tools exist for these datasets, this is the first that gives spatial insight to cancer gene dependence.
The Civilian Cost of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
My submission seeks to describe the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on civilians using recent data from the United Nations. However, my work acknowledges the fallibility and lack of granularity of data collected during armed conflict, as well as the tendency of quantification to dehumanize those it describes. To remedy this, I include stories of Ukrainians impacted by Russian aggression in an attempt to recognize individual acts of bravery in the face of unspeakable evil.
Lithium Exports by Country in 2019
This figure illustrates the top 6 lithium producing countries and their respective production in 2019. Data are from USGS and in metric tons.
How does Cook County's vaccine distribution stack up?
Cook County has high rate of vaccination across one of the largest populations in the country. But now that vaccine uptake is beginning to stagnate, what can Cook County do to close the gap? We used unsupervised learning to cluster Cook with 480 counties across the US, then used Tableau (coupled with vaccination data) to identify distinct counties that outperform Cook in equity, efficiency, and effectiveness. We researched these counties’ practices to form takeaways that Cook can use to close the vaccine gap.
Global New Covid-19 Cases
The following interactive visualizations show different manipulations for the amount of new COVID-19 cases across time and across countries in the world. I made use of Coronavirus Source data from the Our World in Data online site, which can be found at this link. Our World in Data collects their data from John Hopkins University as well as the World Health Organziation. This download of the data spans from January 1st, 2020 to March 08, 2021. Not all countries in the world are included in these visualizations.
Young Stellar Objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud
This plot shows the brightness (in magnitudes) of an object in two different wavelengths (w1mpro and w2mpro) in groups of observations taken close in time, which are roughly six months apart and are represented by the Class Code. Objects that are non-variable appear globular in shape with observations scattered evenly compared to the overall distribution. Variable objects result in a linear shape as the brightness increases or decreases in both wavelengths simultaneously.
Monitoring bumble bee populations in a changing world
Bumble bees are ecologically and economically important pollinators but have experienced rapid declines in recent decades. Yet, we know little about the lives of most wild bumble bee species. Where do they live? When are they active? What do they eat? What does all this mean for the future of bumble bees? To answer these questions, we have been monitoring bumble bee populations in the Colorado Rocky Mountains since 2015. By better understanding the basic ecology of bumble bees, the better we are able to protect them from extinction.
United States Covid-19 Vaccination Distribution and Administration
As of March 28, 2021, the CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccination Data shows the following: 1. Alaska, New Mexico, and South Dakota are leading the nation in vaccinating their populations. 2. The most populous states receive the greatest number of vaccines (ex: California). 3. The most populous states are not the most efficient at administering vaccines from their supply. 4. The government is allocating the greatest proportion of doses (with respect to each state population) to Alaska. 5. Many states are not administering the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as frequently as the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines.
Visualizing American excess deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic by race and ethnicity
American communities of color have shouldered a disproportionate share of the COVID-19 pandemic’s burden. For instance, at peak, Hispanic/Latino Americans experienced a weekly all-cause death burden 130.9% in excess of previous years. Not all excess deaths are directly attributable to COVID-19—there is emerging evidence that delays in care associated with pandemic-related closures and shortages also contributed to increased mortality among all demographics. The phenomenon of increased death burden among American minority groups reflects a higher COVID-19 disease burden, poorer access to quality health care services, and increased prevalence of comorbid conditions for COVID-19 relative to White Americans.
Have our racist housing policies destined current pollutant exposure?
THE LOCATION PROBLEM We are a segregated country. Our education, tax, housing security, and environmental safety is all tied to the most basic unit of our existence: our location . Throughout the history of the United States, the government has sponsored different tactics that have both hurt and helped its citizenry. In this website, I will look at two governmental forms of monitoring, redlining and air quality monitoring, and explore how the 1930s housing policies have laid the groundwork to our current state of segregation.
Studying changes in my behavior through 10 years of FB activity data
I am a long time Facebook user and decided earlier this year to use the “download your information” feature offered on the web interface. I received over 6GB of data from Facebook and Instagram and wrote python code to parse useful information. After parsing through the raw data, I was able to visualize trends in posting and messaging activity along with the growth of my network over time. I was pleasantly surprised by how materially my online behavior changed as a result of me graduating from Undergrad. I hope you enjoy the visualization!
Reaching for Equality
This dataset contains measures of the representation of women in European National Parliaments. I chose to highlight the gap between the current levels of representation and a target of 50% equal representation. The horizontal lollipop bars are meant to allude to starting points and a destination. A rule of data visualization is to scale the axis to fit the data, but I did not want to create the false idea that 50% is the “ceiling.” So, I decided to extend the x-axis to 100% to normalize the idea that there can be female majorities.
Evanston Divvy Bike Usage: Spatial, Temporal, & Demographic Trends
by Daniel Peters