iSchool Capstone

EnVizion - Empowering indigenous minds through technology

Project tags:

data science & visualization

knowledge organization

ux & interaction design

Project poster

We are working with the School of Environment and Forest Science (SEFS) at University of Washington towards the mission of making environmental data accessible to Native American people. The researchers at SEFS have collected large data sets related to land cover, hydrology and precipitation to learn carbon emissions and absorption in that area. The challenge that they currently face is to make this scientific data available to the Native Americans in a format that they can relate with and interact. In order to facilitate this, we have integrated the existing environmental and ecological data and created data visualizations as a POC to ascertain that this process can be automated with the real time data. We have also prototyped user-friendly dashboard to present this information to the indigenous people in an intuitive way so that they can evaluate the health of their land and make better decisions about their environment.

Project participants:

Parth Shah

MSIM

Aditya Kulkarni

MSIM

Rahul Bihariya

MSIM

Vinayak Kawathekar

MSIM