Liping Yang

Department of Geography & Environmental Studies

Spring 2020 Instructor, GEOG 485L/585L Internet Mapping

(See below for students' final project web apps from the course.)

US National Parks Web App (web app, demo video)

(by Roald Kern)

An interactive web app for US national parks and visitor statistics.
Interactive Map Explorer for World languages (web app, demo video)

(by Tura Williams)

An interactive web app for world language empowerd by cross-filter and map filter.
Large Data Set Visual Explorer: United States Airline Delay Analysis (web app , demo video)
(by Tyler Eshelman)

An interactive web app for United States airline delay analysis from 2009 to 2018, by an appealing dot map with time slider showing early flights, flight delays, and cancelled or diverted flights, and by one pie chart and line chart showing more details for an selected year.
USA Crime Map (1975-2015) (web app, demo video)
(by Neelesh Angaluri)

A web-based visual analytics tool for US crime from 1975 to 2015. Data source is from FBI.
U.S. Daily Water Usage (2000, 2005, 2010) (web app, demo video)
(by Allan Mai and Leah Boley)

A web-based visual analytics tool for US daily water usage. Data source is from USGS.

Penn State University, Department of Geography

Spring 2018 Guest Instructor, GEOG 597 Big Data & Place

Invited lecture: Tweet analysis about places using machine learning with Python (brief machine learning theory and hands-on tutorials).

Fall 2017 Co-Instructor, GEOG 461W Dynamic Cartographic Representation (i.e., Geovisualization)

(See below for selected final project web apps from the course.)

Divvy Bike Share Application (web app, demo video)

(by Alexander Jasper, Lucas Tranchita, and Kennon Artis)

An interactive web app for studying the usage of the Divvy bike share system that services Chicago, by generating dynamic heat maps cross-filtered by histograms, using the first quarter Divvy bike share data in 2017.
Death Rates in the United States (web app, demo video)

(by Miranda Waldman, Julia Higson, and Nick Kiraly)

An interactive web app for death rates in the United States (1999 -2015) by an animated choropleth map and small multiples for each of the age-adjusted death rates for the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States.
Earthquakes from 1965 to 2016 (web app , demo video)
(by Zicheng Huang and Yuying Ren)

An interactive web app for visualizing earthquakes (magnitude 5+) from 1965 to 2016, by an appealing 3D rotatable globe, and two flat maps where one is cross-filter enabled.
Illegal Dumpsite Prospector (web app, poster)
(by Benjamin Carlsen)

A web-based visual analytics tool for assessing illegal dumpsites in three PA counties, taking a coordinated view approach that presents significant variables associated with dumpsites -- using a map supplemented by a table and analytics charts, which also serve as control elements to filtering the dumpsite dataset.