Hall of Fame
Best Projects Fall 2023
These are the best projects (out of 43 in total) in 2023.
Winner
Decode Your Personality Type Through Melodies You Love Jyuan Liu, Clara Ye, Lingbo Li
Runner Up
Race for the White House Luke Stoner, Kane Norman, Andrew Sullivan
Honorable Mention
Exploration of Linguistic Diversity Hongkai Wang, Bryan Fores, Ryan Wang
Best Projects Fall 2022
These are the best projects (out of 40 in total) in 2022.
Winner
Fantastic Facts and How to Fake Them Ronan Fonseca, Ian Kelk
Runner Up
Planet Habitability Jose Conchello-Bueyes, Ben Fulroth, Patrick Niebrzydowski
Honorable Mentions
Raising the Bar: An Analysis of Athletes’ Performance over Time Danielle Kelly, Nick Lauer, Rohan Sheth
Energy Crisis Kritika Kharbanda, Karen Kuo, Aditi Memani
Best Projects Fall 2021
These are the best projects (out of 29 in total) in 2021.
Winner
Is it Getting Hot in Here? Global Changes in Extreme Weather Alejandro Romero, Matthew Stewart, Nada Tarkhan, Maximilan Urbany
Runner Up
That’s so Fetch! Jessica Chen, Fiona Henry, Xinyi Li
Honorable Mention
Locked Down - A story of human movement in the US during 2020 Angel Hsu, Jimmy Young, Andrew Zhang
Best Projects Fall 2020
These are the best projects (out of 41 in total) in 2020.
Winner
Dive In - Exploring the Charles River’s Health Barbara Kulaga, Micah Nickerson, Venus Nnadi, Lucia Salwen
Runner Up
Under the influence - A visual story on global alcohol consumption and abuse Peitong Chen, Nina Chen, Tiange Wang
Squirrels in the City Jada Lee, Lizzy Ling, Iris Su
Honorable Mention
Inequality in New York City Britteny Okorom-Achuonye, Shavonna Jackson, Ray Ortigas
The History of Space Flight Juan Carlos Lopez, Michael Mancinelli, Zane Wolf
Best Projects Fall 2019
These are the best projects (out of 31 in total) in 2019.
Winner
Marvel Cinematic Universe Benjamin Levy, Rachel Moon, Pat Sukhum, Kevin Ji Whan Yoon
Runner Up
Loneliness - A Social Story Guangyu Du, Runjia Tian, Lucy Yip
Honorable Mention
Bits of Food Yuefeng Cui, Kaitlyn Germain, Jared Jessup, Kelly Wang
Best Projects Fall 2018
These are the best projects (out of 26 in total) in 2018.
Winner
Visualizing the Harvard Q-Guide Laura Chapman, Jan Geffert, Matt Jiang
Runner Ups
The Rise and Fall of Cryptocurrency Kenneth Kim, Neil Philip, Mauricio Ruiz, Eric Timmerman
The Bechdel Test: Representation of Women in Hollywood and Film Jess Eng, Cassandra Kane, Lucy Li, and Jarele Soyinka
How Private is Private? An Analysis of Healthcare and Mobile Data Sharing Katy McKeough, Andrea Porelli, Nicholas Ruta, Josh Seides
Best Projects Fall 2017
These are the best projects (out of 25 in total) in 2017.
Winner
Who Wins in the Sharing Economy? Tansaya Kunaratskul, Jonathan Mazumdar and Ihsaan Patel
Runner Ups
Harvard Curricular History Andrew Lund, Robert Roessler and Jason Stein
Data at Large Michelle Ho, Xindi Zhao and Ziqi Guo
Honorable Mentions
Education in Another’s Shoes Lydia Kim, Gaew Lertsuridej and Faran Sikandar
An Evergreen Planet: Preserving our World’s Natural Forests Christine Zhang, Kevin Huang and Jesse Zhang
Stop and Frisk from all angles Katherine Loboda and Samuel Stone
Best Projects Fall 2016
These are the best projects (out of 20 in total) in 2016.
Winner
Through the Eyes of the Survivor Neel Mehta, Javier Cuan-Martinez, Peter Youn, and Enrique Casas
Runner Ups
Eating Healthy Karen Su, Samuel Cheng
Seeing Through the Fogg Katherine Harrison, Maria McLaughlin, and Maia Suazo-Maler
Castle in the Sky Xu Si, Bingfeng Xia, Rui Zhao, Xinyuan Wang
Best Projects Spring 2016
These are the best projects (out of 63 in total) in 2016. Within the sections the order is alphabetical.
Winner
Visualizing the crisis in Syria Maria del Mar Carpanelli, Li Li, Maria Schwarz
Runner Ups
The American Consumer Nathaniel Burbank, Jeremy Clark, Bruno Carriere
America’s Obesity Epidemic Kevin Buhrer, Jonny Moon, Thomas Musser
The Air We Breathe Marius de Vogel, Craig Houston, and Dominick Peluso
Cambridge car accidents Kyle Maguire, Rick Farmer, Kartik Trasi and Adam DiChiara
People’s Choice: Global Network Jacob Scherba, Maria Zlatkova, Aksel Reiten, Magnus Moan
Honorable Mentions:
Discovering Cuisines of the World Lulu Liu, Isadora Nun, Fanny Heneine, Jack Qian
US Time Use Yuqi Hou, Tuongvan Le, Maria Lai
AD2: Analog-year Discovery Dashboard Sol Girouard
The 2016 Election Adam Janes, Nhi Ho
Flowing Shanghai Zhan Zhao, Sebastian Fischer, Alpha Jacob Arsano
Data Behind Champions Chi-Hsuan Chang, Zhuyun Xiao, Ji Hua, Yufei Gui
Free Trade Agreements Andrew Greene, Bertrand Mouton, Qutab Alam, and Senthil Arumugam
Ukraine Valérie Lavigne, Marius Panga, and Shivas Jayaram
Best Projects 2015
These are the best projects (out of 76 in total) in 2015. Within the sections the order is alphabetical.
Winners
This year we had two winners, with an exactly equal number of votes by the staff:
Datahub Dayne Davis, Niamh Durfee, Alexandra Smith
New York City Schools Aasta Frascati-Robinson
Runner Ups
The Growth of a Nation Lauren Wood
CityCyle Mirhee Kim, Emily Lovett, Michelle Danoff
Metro Boston Food Exploration Christian Schlubach, Jack Birger, Sarah Ting
Ventures Guillaume Laliberte
Visualizing Crime in Chicago: 2001-present Zachary Fogelson, Alexander Jaffe
Visualizing Inundation Impacts Michael Dowd
Behind Bars: A Visual Story Hugh Zabriskie, Cynthia Meng
Carbon Emissions: A Global and Historical Perspective Anna Zhong, Rachael Smith
hydro[CROP]monitor Spyridon Ampanavos, Tiffany Cheng
Multi PheWAS Viewer Antoine Neuraz
The Rent Is Too Damn High Bartsch Elliott, Lo John, Perez Alejandro
Weather and the MBTA Aaron Zampaglione, Filip Piasevoli, David Brown
Best Projects 2014
These are the best projects (out of 79 in total) in 2014. Within the sections the order is alphabetical.
Winner
Century of Corn
Benjamin Cook, Charles Hornbaker, Conor Myhrvold, Ryan King.
The prize for our winners: a 3D pie chart! We took a bite though!
Runner Ups Places 2 and 3
Data Driven Dota Robbie Gibson, Benjy Levin, Huihui Fan
Fukushima Memoriam (Japan’s Triple Disaster) Molly Lloyd, Anthony Thul, Eric Coletti
Runner Ups
Box Office Success and Social Media Christopher Leuer
Exploring Influence and Bipartisanship through Social Networks in Congress Jonathan Marks
Eye to the Sky. Chandra Edition. Pat O’Brien, Katherine Wyman, Daniel Schultz
Not Safe Anymore (NSA) Shreyas Dube, Christopher Gerber
owlhub. Insights Arne Zeising, Hendrik Makait, Keda Che
SEAS Rebecca Mazur
Startup Lookup Kevin Kuate Fodouop, Alexandre Sahyoun
The Evolution of Social Networks Andrew Reece, Brian Feeny, Jennifer Sulkow
Vindolanda: A Visual History Nikhil Mulani
Visualizing the Great Recession Through The United States from 2001 to 2011 Eric Slater, Luciano Arango, Monarch Wadia
U.S. College Data Comparison Tool Jaemin Cheun, Ray Kim
Zap! Pow! Graph! or Holy Data, Batman! Charles Bandes, Svetlana Nelson
Best Projects 2013
Project 3 - Interactive Data Visualization
Winner
Energy Visualizations With UMI James Perakis
Runner Ups Places 2-3
Visualizing U.S. Foreign Trade Data from 1992 to 2012 Albert Young, Kevin Sun
Streaming through 1Channel.ch Rob Acheson, Jeff Fontas
Runner Ups
Identification of Mutations that affect Protein Functions John Mercer, Balaji Pandian
Project Cork Jason Tucker, Mike Degen
MIT Residential Footprint Chunglin Wen, Amy Yu
Yelp! You’re Eating the Last Piece! Nida Naushad, Jessica Wu
Harvard Concentrations: A Story Jerry Chang, Lucas Lin
Palace of Pop Mimi Xu, Joe Feghali
To Bid or not to Bid Andres Arslanian, Nico Tejera
The Origin Of Languages And Their Scripts Tamar Rucham
Project 2 - Interactive Data Visualization
Top 3
Letters Space Distribution Tamar Rucham
Top 250 Jeff Fontas, Rob Acheson
Visualizing Aid Data Kevin Sun, Albert Young
Runner Ups
ABC Company Shipping Metrics Christoper Allen
Kiva Lending Snapshot Han Kim
Piazza Exploration: Exploring Activity in a Collaborative Academic Forum Kristiana Laugen, Andrew Bocskocsky
Trends in Chicago Crime Jeff Adams, Matt Lutze
US flight traffic in the face of major exogenous shock David Chouinard, Vincent Tsugranes
Project 1 - Data Scraping and Analysis with Tableau
NFL Offensive Trends by Team and by Year
Randy Miller
Exploring the creation and editing of President Barack Obama’s Wikipedia page Jonathan Yip
Global Education: The Facts You Never Knew Bharathi Balasubramanyam
Watching Hockey Beyond the Ice
Johnathan Mercer
Endangered Animals
Kevin Mu
Inbox Visualizer Andrew Bocskocsky