Skillsets
Data Science, Front-end Development, STEM Pedagogy, Web Design (HTML, CSS, JS), Processing, Videography
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The ESSIL data visualization supports visitor recall of the experience in New York Hall of Science’s Connected Worlds exhibit, a huge interactive projected simulated ecosystem.
As a Research and Development Specialist on the project, I designed and coded the time-animated bar graphs using p5.js to support tracking of plants and animals of different levels over the course of the session. Different levels of abstraction in the visualization supports learner recall of their own museum experience, and helps them find information in the more abstracted time-aligned line graphs of water quantities across biomes and bar graphs showing the number of plants and animals at different times.
Middle schoolers in this experience take on different roles in 4 groups to collaboratively cultivate one of 4 biomes to bring out all the possible plants and animals. Because water is a scarce resource, groups find themselves competing for water access.
Learn more in this 3-minute video below
