Student Jessica Giles Creates Map to Track People’s Movements During the Pandemic
One of the reasons student Jessica Giles entered the MSIS program was to learn how to better represent data through visualization for her job as an associate data engineer at Intermx in Atlanta, Georgia. She had hoped to gain skills that would allow her to put data and statistics into an easy-to-consume format for the public. Her most recent work project achieved just that: Giles used data of people’s movements during the COVID-19 pandemic and placed it into an interactive map with adjacent graphs that anyone can access and use.
While the idea for the map initially stemmed from clients … Read more “Student Jessica Giles Creates Map to Track People’s Movements During the Pandemic”