Teaching
I currently teach Data Visualization (DATASCI 209, "W209") in UC Berkeley's Master of Information and Data Science (MIDS) program. Each semester ends with team final projects, and the ones I have below are some of the best work I've seen students build. Links point at the live site, or at an archived copy once the site has gone offline.
Before Berkeley I taught calculus at UVM as a grad student, and later Multiple Regression at Smith College; notes from those courses are on their own pages, linked below.
Fall 2026
Section 1, in progress.
Summer 2026
Section 1.
Spring 2026
Section 1, Wednesdays 4:00-5:30pm PT. Four really excellent projects.
Coral Bleaching
Marisa Aubert, Carlos Santander, Talita Mesquita, Ethan Chen- The Charts Are Alive with the Sound of Music
Carla Tapia, Clover Ausdemore, Sarah Son, Neeraj Athani - Mountain Springs Ranch
Brian Jaffe, Alec Heyde, Ewura Impraim Mensah, Victor Ndayambaje
The Michelin Guide Assistant
David Lee, Nat Au-Yeung, Ryan Sin, Ivan Peteh
Fall 2025
Section 3.
Summer 2025
Section 3, Wednesdays 4:00-5:30pm PT.
Spring 2025
Section 1, Mondays 4:00-5:30pm PT. Five great projects.
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San Francisco Crime Trends
Paulina Alvarado-Goldman, Thomas Lee, David Fujii
video · site offline
Healthy Data
Patrick Abousleiman, Wendy Matta, Armaan Hiranandani, Daniel Brown
site offline-
Visualizing the Big Mac Index
Henry Gardner, Jordan Lawhon, Anushka Madwesh
video · archived copy
NFL Salary Cap Distribution
Chad Jasso, Jack Corley, Sonia Chakraborty-
Democracy and Dictatorships
Sarah Julius, Tiffany Liu, Kristen Cirincione, Rhiannon Jimenez
video · site offline
Fall 2024
Section 1.
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TrackVision: Data Visualizations for DJs
Nathan Choi, Simone Ong, Kelly Short, Hannah Grace Smith
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Follow the Rhythm
Aashray Puri, Isaac Madera, Douglas Houghton
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California Dreaming: Airbnb Rentals
Jiayue (Jo) Zhu, Siddharth Chandras, Vicky Liu, Weijie Yang
video · site offline
A Visual Guide to NYC Restaurants and Health
Sam Greenberg, Yoni Nackash, Kelsey Ryan-
Labor Trends
Mohak Buch, Daelyn Bergsman, Mohammed Elzubeir
video · site offline
Summer 2024
Section 1.
Spring 2024
I don't have anything in my drive from this semester; I think I took a sabbatical?
Fall 2023
Summer 2023
Spring 2023
Fall 2022
Summer 2022
Spring 2022
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Hit Movies
Den Baek, Laura Cheng, Ruilan Liu, Michelle Shen
video · site offline
Fall 2021
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Who Owns U.S. Treasuries?
Daniel Weitz, Javier Romo, Paco Aguirre
video · archived copy
PokeVax: the VAERS Database
Dahler Battle, Emily Brantner, Menglu He, Nicole Chen-
Peaks: The Most Popular Himalayan Peaks
Sean Campos, Shane Kramer, Jackie Nichols, Demian Rivera
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Ames Iowa Real Estate Price Explorer
Parham Motameni, Frank Yung-fong Tang
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Tax Transparency
Amanjot Samra, Khizar Khan, Faris Haddad
video
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
California Traffic Collisions
Poonam Parhar, Mohan Sadashiva, Fisher Shi, Robin Lashof-Regas
archived copy
Beer Style Finder
Evelyn You, Graham Schweer, Seungwoo Jun, Julie Nguyen
archived copy
Amazon FBA Product Selection for First Time Sellers
Ivan Wong, Rong Yang, Max Ziff
archived copy- Seattle Transit Explorer
Kevin Martin, Adam Sayre, Josh Jonte, Luis Bochner
archived copy
Fall 2020
Visualizing San Francisco Bay Vessel Traffic
Emma Tebbe, Greg Tozzi, Joanna Wang
Understanding Stocks for the New Investor
Brittney Van Hese, Emily Rail, Jason Kang
Aviation Accidents
Gajarajan Nagarajan, Surya Gutta
Summer 2020
Oil Production Curtailment
Amin Fardi, Kirk Duval, Yuchen Cheng
site offline
The Greatest Generation in NBA History
James Wall, Curtis Lin, Satua Thiruvallur
site offline- Covid-19 and Social Distancing Patterns
Yuling Chen, Barbara Itotia, Imran Manji, Tracy Stephens
Spring 2020
- California Kindergarten Immunization Rates
Allison Godfrey, Andre Douglas, Anna Jacobson
site offline
Bias in Consumer Lending
Jia Lu, Brian Neesby, Edina Tankovic
archived copy
Fall 2019
- Cola Wars
Chandramouli Venkatesan, Eddie Zhu, Mike King
site offline - Firearm Control Laws
Siobhan Harrington, Yue Hu, Andrew Morris, Pritesh Patel
site offline - US Presidential Elections
Ahana Namburi, Harith Elrufaie, Rishikesh Majumder
site offline - MOSS: Model Output Score Scrutinizer
Joseph Lee, Teddy Fong, Jon Zhou, Matt Brimmer, Richard Ryu
Fall 2018
Smith College Multiple Regression (SDS 291)
UC Berkeley Data Visualization (MIDS W209)
Twitterrain
Tiffany Jaya, Daniel Olmstead, Rohini Kashibatla
site offline- Airline Explorer
Daniel Elkin, Mihir Sathe, Matt Vay
site offline
Gender Equality and Economic Development
Mary Boardman, Kathryn Hamilton, Katy Plath, James Kajdasz-
U.S. Congress Foreign Travel
James Beck, Paul Durkin, John Pette, Alison Walker
video · site offline
Summer 2018
Section 1.
- Teaching Epidemiology Compartment Models
Josh Lee, James Black, Frank Shannon
site offline
MarkeTV
Ely Liu, Jennifer Podracky, Collin Reinking, Blake Williamson
video · site offline-
A Better Fitness Data Dashboard
Krissy Gianforte, Dan Kent, Ehsan Yousefzadeh
video · site offline
Mass Shootings in America
Adam Letcher, Michael Powers, Jessica Vincent
site offline
Spring 2018
Sections 1 and 2.
The Final Frontier: An Exoplanet Exploration
Eric Lind, Cassie Seney, Grant Whittington, Jack Workman
site offline- An Entrepreneur's Scouting Tool
Andrew Kabatznick, Nathaniel Schub, Noah Randolph, Sijie (Anne) Yu
site offline - Understanding the 2017-18 Flu Epidemic
Andrew Mamroth, Shan He, Stanley Opara, Yubo Zhang
site offline - Latin America Macroeconomics and Tech Company Performance
Ursula Figueroa
site offline
Fall 2017
Section 1.
Cybersecurity
Jason Hunsberger, Peter G., Rani F., Aditya N.
site offline- VIDS: Vital Information Decision Support
Jay Zuniga, John Tabbone, David Larance
World Bank Sustainable Development Goals
Mike Amodeo, Zenobia Liendo Angles, Mona Iwamoto, Manish Sannat
Summer 2017
Sections 1 and 3.
- RYCH: Review-based Yelp Category Heatmap
Dan Guevarra, Svetlana Riva
site offline - The U.S. Prison Problem
Jessica Sanders, John Kenney, Chris Miller
archived copy - Chicago Crime Report
Yifan Sun, Jill Zhang
site offline
California Public School Performance
Diana Rodenberger, Nick Stamatakis, Eric Tsai- Rental Property Investment Dashboard
Brock Kowalchuk, John Sullivan, David Tan, Kingsuk Maitra
site offline
Spring 2017
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See also the post at the time: Spring 2017 Berkeley DataViz Project Roundup.
Portland Housing Calculator
Riley Rustad, Danish Iqbal
Trumpworld
Sharmila Velamur, Chandler
History of Refugee Migrations Since WWII
Thong Bui, Ramsey Aweti, Jason Becker, Haroon Choudery- Atlas for USDA Food Access Indicators
Jordan Kupersmith, Ravneet Ghuman, Yuhang Zhao
site offline - SVD Tutorial
Chuck Bolin, Frederic Suares, Rama Thamman
site offline
Fall 2016
Sections 1 and 3.
- College Compare
Cory Kind, Giles Ochs, Kevin Dugan, Timothy Weeks
site offline
Could Millennial Turnout Have Flipped the 2016 Election?
Matt Acconciamessa, Saif Ahmed, Samantha Brownstein, Manuel Moreno, Byron Tang
archived copy- The Fashion Trend
Ganesh Sundararajan, Guangzhi (Frank) Xie, Olivier Zimmer, Patrick Ng
site offline
Summer 2016
Panama Papers
Megan Jasek, Charles Kekeh, Rohan Thakur, Chris Murray
archived copy- Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Are We Doing Enough?
Megan Pera, XT Nguyen, D. M. Burt, Tarun Chopra - US Federal Government Contracts
Sally Hong, Marek Sedlacek
site offline
Spring 2016
My first semester teaching in MIDS, sections 1 and 3.
- Discover Terrorism
Vincent Chio, Nandu Menon, Saru Mehta
site offline
Physician ℞plorer
Michael Marks, Stephane Truong, Natarajan Krishnaswami- Moral Reflection for a Better World
Derek S. Chan, Brandon Shurick
site offline
UFO in Your Backyard
Abhishek Kumar, Lucas Dan, Ritesh Soni- Visual Analytics for Local K-12 Education
Minghu Song, Walter Erquinigo Pezo, Martin Neuhard - TrackAware
Nina Kuklisova, Ankit Tharwani, Guillermo Monge
archived copy
Yesterday's News Today
Thomas Atkins, Eric Whyne, Alex Nachlas- Tweeview
Filip Krunic, Eric Perkins, Hank Mushinski - Movies: Ratings vs Box Office
Aruna Vallurupalli, Hussein Danish, Shruti van Hemmen
site offline
Who Is Getting Short Changed?
Sahab Aslam
archived copy