iSchool Capstone

Opening Up the Data: Visualizing the effectiveness of Puget Sound restoration efforts

Project tags:

data curation

data science & visualization

mobile or web development

Project poster

Interoperability, dispersed data, and inconsistent data formats are common issues across information science. This Open Data Literacy (ODL) Capstone tackles these issues in the realm of environmental restoration. Numerous restoration projects have been undertaken throughout the Puget Sound, but connecting investments in these projects to co-located indicators of habitat viability is challenging. Our team leveraged open, found data and open-source tools to build a scalable, sustainable data processing pipeline and an interactive, web-based visualization prototype. This helps our partners better tell the story of Puget Sound restoration efforts and demonstrates that open-source tools can help data curators meet open-data needs.

Project participants:

Tim Blankemeyer

MLIS

Katrina Gertz

MLIS

Emma Clarke

MLIS

Video Link :

https://goo.gl/gWW1xu