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Project: Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative: Depaul 359

Students in ENV 359 collaborated with the staff of the Chicago Workers Cottage Initiative to provide estimates of the total number of workers cottages in the City of Chicago. Workers cottages have historical architectural significance and also continue to provide a base of more affordable housing stock. Workers cottages are often torn down in neighborhoods

Project: SYNCERE

MCDC students worked with Project SYNCERE to assimilate and visualize data through renewable, digital dash- and storyboards that facilitate support, participation, informed decision-making, and impact assessment. One public-facing storyboard was developed with Python tools provided by Streamlit. For this storyboard, students scraped annual reports and utilized data extracted from the organization’s Qualtrics accounts. The other,