SAVI 780 – Fall 2018 – Student Projects

Final projects for Pratt SAVI, SAVI 780.


A Cup At Origin - Coffee Consumption Producing Countries

global

The global trading price for green coffee is in the doldrums. On September 17, 2018, the price for one pound of coffee reached a 12-year low of 93.45 cents. For producers, these global prices oftentimes don't even come close to covering the costs of production. So instead of marketing their crop for international export (where the price is determined by the low market), supply chain actors in producing countries look to domestic consumption for the demand needed to sell their crop.

City Lines

New York, USA; Shanghai, China; Paris, France; Tokyo, Japan

These are four maps of different cities around the world. Top Left is Tokyo, Top Right is Paris, Bottom Left is Shanghai, and the Bottom Right is New York. Each have their subway lines shown to compare the density, structure length, and creation years.

Dogs of New York

New York, NY, USA

"Dogs of New York" examines publicly available data from New York City's Open Data Portal detailing all dog licenses filed in the year 2016. The two maps created for the project were built for two courses at Pratt Institute, "Foundations of Spatial Thinking" and "Introduction to Interactive Web Programming" respectively, and then displayed side-by-side in one cohesive web page. Attempting the same goal in each class the skills learned in each was valuable in exposing the benefits and challenges of respective GIS tools across the field of web mapping as a whole.

Land Temperatures of U.S. Cities

United States

A web map created to allow users to interact with land temperature data of cities in the United States on January 1st between years 1849-2013.

Missed Connections

New York, NY, USA

Simple interactive web-map displaying connections between MTA subway lines responsive to keyboard input. Direct keyboard input of any given subway line will render the given subway line and its entrances (for the R-line, simply press 'r', etc.). Subsequent keyboard input will draw subway lines but narrow down the selection of subway entrances, leaving only those entrances which feature all selected subway lines... or no entrances if none match the accumulated search criteria. Mouse hovering over entrances will display the street nearest street intersection. Best viewed in Chrome.

Multiple Disciplinary Removals from School

New York, NY USA

This project analyzes the rate of students that were suspended or otherwise removed from school for disciplinary reasons multiple times in New York City public schools during the 2015-2016 school year. Suspensions, expulsions, and other forms of removing a student from school as a disciplinary measure, especially on a repeated basis, are criticized for putting students at increased risk of being incarcerated later in life.

Museum and Gallery Hunt

New York, NY, USA

This project is the first stage of an interactive map that looks at the proximity of nonprofit galleries and museums to subway transportation.

NYC Parks & Eateries

New York, NY, USA

This interactive map features New York City parks and the amenities situated within the parks’ boundaries. It features interactive points and polygons that bring up corresponding details in the sidebar, options for zooming and showing/hiding layers, and a customized basemap using Mapbox.

Racial Bias in NYC: Drug Enforcement

New York, NY, USA

This map visually portrays drug enforcement by racial demographics in NYC. It shows that police precincts with larger Black and Hispanic populations have disproportionately higher rates of felony and misdemeanor drug offenses recorded than drug use statistics would imply, suggesting that racial bias is a factor.

Scandinavian Expedition Memory Map

Katterjakk, Sweden; Norway

My final project is a map of a backpacking expedition I did in the arctic circle in Scandinavia this summer. I have the data for this trip in an analog map (campsites, trails, etc), and I incorporated notes and drawings from my journals and some photo

The Trees of Battery Park City

New York, USA

An interactive map that visualizes trees in Battery Park City’s parks and on the neighborhood’s sidewalks and also provides basic information about those trees.