iSchool Capstone

Spokin

Project tags:

data science & visualization

knowledge organization

social media

Project poster

Spokin is an experimental online civic network created by the non-profit research and development organization, Third Place Technologies. Spokin’s purpose is to allow users to connect with organizations, projects, events and many other happenings that they believe that they are connected to within their communities. This is where our specific capstone project comes into play. Our project is to use a JavaScript visualization library called D3 that will allow us to create a way of visualizing the connection between different people and organizations in the Spokin user network. This will allow their audience to be able find new users and organizations to connect with by looking at how their current connections compare to others.

Project participants:

Garrett Goody

Informatics

Kevin Rawls

Informatics

Timothy Landowski

Informatics

Vikram Thirumalai

Informatics