iSchool Capstone

An Interactive Data Visualization Initiative for Washington State Library

Project tags:

archives & special collections

data curation

data science & visualization

Social Impact and Social Justice Award

The Washington Digital Newspaper (WDN) program of the Washington State Library has led to the creation of an online repository with approximately 600,000 pages of historically significant newspapers. It serves as a valuable resource to explore American history and can be utilized for numerous projects and research opportunities. This project aims to assist the library in growing a diverse newspaper collection by mapping data results. Our data visualization solution offers a comprehensive platform and an interactive way to analyze the current data, identify gaps and patterns while increasing the data's accessibility worldwide via Tableau public.

Project participants:

Harshi Thaker

MSIM

Aayushi Gandhi

MSIM

Manthan Mehta

MSIM