Hello Everyone!

I am writing to see if anyone is interested in having an interactive web-app built to help visualize or analyze their data. If you think you might be interested please read on! It is pretty low-commitment from your end: you just provide us the data and meet with students a few times during the semester to help direct the effort and answer questions.

Each year, the Environmental Data Science capstone class at Virginia Tech tackles data visualization and/or analysis projects over the course of the spring semester. Students work with scientists to develop web-based applications that allow the scientists or the public to more easily visualize, interact with, analyze, or develop models using their data. 

We are looking for projects for spring 2023! If you have a dataset that you would like to make more accessible to others: for teaching, exploration, analysis or anything else(!), please send me an e-mail at jpgannon@vt.edu! 

In the past, we have built several apps that help visualize large and/or complex datasets using a web-based gui. Two examples from last year are the flux tower data viewer and the adaptive silviculture experiment data viewer. We have also developed a couple apps that help more on the data analysis or even collection side of things. Last year students built an app for Nat Cleavitt that calculates the most efficient path for her to take to visit selected orchids in the field. Finally a few years ago students built an app that allowed users to compare the output from multiple approaches to gap-filling time series data from groundwater wells in watershed 3.

The students are really talented! And I work closely with them to try to ensure they build something useful and that it doesn't take much of your time!

Sincerely, 

JP