by Shraddha Kakade and Zhejun Li (Emerald)According to the World Health Organization (WHO), air pollution is the world’s single largest environmental health risk.According to the WHO 2012 estimates, one in every eight deaths of the total global deaths were linked… Continue Reading →
Boston has made an effort to make cycling safer in the city but have those efforts paid off? Has Boston truly become on of the best cities in the U.S. for cycling, as claimed by Bicycling magazine? Or is that… Continue Reading →
“Tech Support”, Cover of The New Yorker October 23, 2017. Source: R. Kikuo JohnsonArtificial intelligence or AI was defined as early as 1956 by John McCarthy, a Dartmouth College professor like this: “Every aspect of learning or any other feature… Continue Reading →
How Do China’s Internet Celebrity Differ From America’s?By Jieru Xu18th Sept “Internet famous” is a cultural phenomenon that has exploded among netizens in China, but it’s a concept that originated in America in the early 2000s. So how does internet celebrity differ in… Continue Reading →
Welcome to “Matters of Life and Death,” a podcast that explores death and how it fits into our lives.Besides being born, dying the most life-changing thing that happens to us. And I want to understand it. It’s this intimate, ultimate… Continue Reading →
When someone eats Chinese food in a Chinese restaurant around Boston, is it authentic cuisine? Is it a food that might be served in Szechuan or Hunan? Maybe. But probably not.If it’s General’s Tso’s chicken, the answer is most definitely… Continue Reading →
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Qh3hn-1LXxTG1z7XZPUix9PDJvsw-fDtIn the video, we shot and interviewed Steven Holler, one of the lobster fishermen in Massachusetts, who has been fishing for lobsters for 40 years. Basing on his experience, we try to present the epitome of a Massachusetts’ lobster fisherman’s… Continue Reading →
Cover of Chinese Cyber Security Law. Credit by Baidu.comIntroductionThe simmering topic of online security vs. privacy has erupted again in the wake of the Chinese government’s new law requiring Chinese citizens to register their real names and personal information when… Continue Reading →
It’s no secret that professional teams reign supreme in Boston sports — and for good reason. Since the turn of the century, the success of professional sports in Title Town has been nothing short of incredible. Tom – the GOAT – and Bill Belichick – the Evil Emperor – have commandeered for the… Continue Reading →
They are all knee-deep in Greek life, eating unhealthy and tailgating every weekend. These are just some of the most common stereotypes us Europeans hold of American college students. While some of these aspects weren’t appealing to me, the idea of a big sports culture… Continue Reading →
On November 12, Northeastern’s men’s basketball team opened its 2017-18 campaign. A brand-new court design lined the floor of the historic Mathews Arena on St. Boltoph Street as the Huskies kicked things off against the neighboring Wentworth Institute of Technology;… Continue Reading →
By Hanyang Dong and Jieru XuHubway is a public bike sharing system in the Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Town of Brookline area. People could easily grab a bike in the Hubway docking station and get around in the city, then… Continue Reading →
Everyone has childhood memories of the films produced by Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures and Walt Disney Studios.For our data visualization, we chose to compare the number of films produced per year by these four major cinema titans. The… Continue Reading →
In this tutorial, we will teach you how to visualize earthquakes in North America, from 1980 to 2017, on a map using Plotly.First things first, we need some data to work with. You can head on over to this link and… Continue Reading →
As a data journalist, it is a near certainty that at some point you’ll be dealing with the sort of data that’s best visualized by being plopped down on a map. Creating a map allows readers to quickly get a… Continue Reading →
“Multiplayer online battle arena,” or MOBA for short, is a type of video game. In MOBA games, players control a single character in one of the two teams to destroy the opposing team’s main structure by using strategies. The most famous MOBA… Continue Reading →
If you run into Ackim Mpofu or Charlton Muhlauri on the Northeastern campus, there’s a pretty good chance the other is not too far behind.The two senior footballers have been practically inseparable since they arrived on the Boston scene in… Continue Reading →
SK Telecom T1, Cloud9, Fnatic – odds are that for the average American, those terms don’t mean much. For avid esports fans, these terms are equivalent to what the New England Patriots are in football or the New York Yankees… Continue Reading →
The first thing you notice about Will Messa is his infectious enthusiasm.As the Matthews Arena Zamboni lurches onto the ice on a Tuesday afternoon, signaling the end of another Northeastern men’s hockey practice, Messa is perched on the outer edge… Continue Reading →
Group members: Hanyang Dong, Yanhao Zhang, Shraddha Kakade, Jianuo Han Lessons from the group project:For our group project, we decided to visualize forest coverage all over the world from 1990 to 2015 so that we can observe trends or patterns.We looked up… Continue Reading →
Introduction There are 27 ratified amendments in the U.S. Constitution, 10 of which compose the Bill of Rights. These figures pale in comparison to the more than 11,000 proposed amendments since the Constitution was adopted. We examined an open dataset… Continue Reading →
When the City of Boston started releasing annual student housing reports in 2015, it opened new opportunities to report on housing in the city. A lot of the data in their reports requires further investigation, clarification, and cleaning. But considering… Continue Reading →
For my data visualization assignment, I chose to write about Massachusetts teacher salaries, how many teachers are in each school district, and the physical size of each community. I only compared school districts that are contained in one community.The data is… Continue Reading →
Yumeng’s News Diary Sept. 25–Oct. 1 By Yumeng Ren How I consume News in a Typical Day 7:30–8:30 Gmail Newsletters: Boston Globe 20 min/ Washington Post 10 min/ Nieman Lab 10 minPersonal letter 20 min 8:30–10:00 Social media Video Call… Continue Reading →