Featured Project
“Political Decisions and the Course of the Pandemic in Israel“
Lilo Primo
Technology: p5js
COVID-19 Data Visualization
Daily COVID 19 Death counts are visualized as bars and correlated with political events in the news in Israel. Animation is driven by the level of mortality. Timeframe: February 20, 2020 – October 31, 2021. Video shows navigation of the p5js sketch. More on the development of the concept and early sketches are found below.
Indonesian Medical Heros
Tirta Rachman (Tito)
Student explored how to create a visual memorial to medical professionals in Indonesian building upon an online memorial site that allows colleagues and students to reflect and memorialize those lost to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Death is pretty interesting, in that there is grief and sadness but it brings people together in expressing love and memories.”
Role of Media in Managing Pandemic
Nick Grant
Student sought to explore the questions listed here. Student experimented with creating an interactive “google face mask” which, using augmented reality technology allows the user an immersive media/data experience related to COVID-19 pandemic in different countries.
“Detached” Economic Realities of the COVID-19 Era
Yihan Zhao
Unemployment shot up exponentially, people were dying and losing loved ones, businesses closed their doors. Americans sheltered in place… some of them. On the other hand some people fled dense metropolitan areas for their secluded country mansions and villas. Others (almost) seamlessly transitioned to remote work. And the newly designated “essential workers” kept us fed, provided medical care at extreme personal risk. Sounds like a recipe for tumbling. market indices but instead the stock market kept growing and growing in leaps and bounds.
“For me throughout COVID-19 I see my friends from two different backgrounds. I have friends with investment portfolios going up double digits and there are people who cannot pay their rents.“
Research on memorials for mass death events
Daniel Johnston
Student focused on memorials around mass death events and community mourning. Project led to student’s interest in disaggregating data to interrogate the effect of COVID-19 on specific demographics.
Student’s Final Reflections
“Most of the information pertaining to specific communities is done by accumulating submissions from community members. I would like to continue this research by focusing on the following:
- Memorials around other viral outbreaks globally
- Community memorials around mass death
Datasets that I would be interested in seeing:
- Queer/trans lives impacted by COVID (race, ethnicity, age, location, wealth, income)
- Datasets showing COVID impact by wealth and income
I am also interested in telling the story of those impacted by COVID and HIV/AIDS.”
COVID-19 Impact Project 