Final Project Showcase
This page lists all projects submitted by the 130 students in Fall 2025’s offering of DSC 106. Projects are listed with the permission of the student teams.
There were four kinds of awards given to student submissions:
- The Best Project Award was given to the top 3 submissions based on the effectiveness and creativity of the project visualizations.
- The Best Presentation Award was given to the top 4 submissions based on the quality of the project video and presentation during the showcase.
- The Honorable Mention Award was given to the top 3 submissions (after the Best Project Awards) based on effectiveness and creativity of the project visualizations.
- The People’s Choice Award was given to the top 5 submissions based on votes cast during the in-person showcase event.
How Hard is it Really to Play Quarterback in the NFL?
Team: Jack Kalsched, Leo Malott, Matthew Vaught, Ryan Tjenalooi
Best Project Best Presentation People's Choice
How did imperial powers and the regions they colonized diverge in their long-term CO₂ emissions patterns, and how did extraction and wartime industrial activity contribute to that divergence?
Team: Tori Nguyen, Alan Xia, Erika Tong
Best Project People's Choice
When It Rains: America's Changing Climate
Team: Claudine Handali, Haoyang Zhang, Jeremy Cheng, Sharon Tey
Best Presentation
Carbon in America: Where Do We Stand?
Team: Lillian Tran, Casey Julianne So, Lauren Vo, Keilani Li
Honorable Mention Best Presentation People's Choice
Unbearable Light
Team: Faline Le, Amrutha Potluri, Audrey Chung, Katie Hannigan
Best Presentation People's Choice
America on Fire: Mapping US Fire Distribution
Team: Jaden Goelkel, Noah Neuweg, Adit Gautam, Dylan Dsouza
Honorable Mention People's Choice
Why Some Neighborhoods Sleep Hotter
Team: Odessa Castillo, Timothy Harmon, Uzair Gheewala, Uday Lingampalli
Honorable Mention
Two Families, Two Realities: An Interactive Look at Mortgage Inequality
Team: Nabila Qotrunnada, Ho Lim, Kalkidan Gebrekirstos
People's Choice
Where California Burns: A Geographic Story of Wildfire Risk
Team: Margot Nissen, David Goldstein, Mieko Chun
A Peek Into Vegetation Health and Climate Change
Team: Tony Bai, Ricky Zhang, Dhruv Sehgal
Multi-Model Climate Visualization: America's Climate Crisis
Team: Dillon Bowes, Vishal Paidi, Cheng-I Lin
The Moving Monsoon: How climate change shifts the rainfall rhythms of billions.
Team: Minyoung Kim, Tanisha Kumar, Kyle Le
The Heat You Can't Outrun
Team: Bryan Nguyen, Michael Kroyan, Janice Rincon, Susana Haing
Build a Hit: Can data predict a viral song?
Team: Munachimso Ndubisi, Amelia Wong, Le Reh
The City Where Bike Share Isn't Shared
Team: Justin Lee, Angela Yuan, Andrew Kim, Victor Chen
Africa Wildfires 2024: From Routine Cycles to Crisis
Team: Akshitaa Balasai, Ankita Inamti, Durga Nair, Tanisha Iyer
The State of Wealth Inequality in the U.S.
Team: Ali Ahmed, Emily Cai, Brandon Van Horn, Wanchen Yang
Global warming from 2015 to 2030: Interactive visualization maps of trends and regional differences
Team: Weiyu Chen, Shujia Chen, Qi Zhang, Xinyi Zeng
Understanding Hurricanes
Team: Siddhartha Sarvepally, Henry Liu, Maggie Zhang, Cedric Jeng
Where America Burns: Visualizing Wildfires across the United States
Team: Ziling Xu, Jenny Xu, Yiming Han, Tiantian Zheng
US Households' Financial Situation Pre- and Post-COVID Across Different Demographics
Team: Edwards Tong, Junran Yang, Hannah Gonzalez, Janie Chan
The Global Greening Inequality Explorer
Team: Ved Panse, Stephanie Anshell, Sonali Singh