CSY-004. A visual that illustrates the recent trends happening within a school's area of focus.
PROJECT COMPLETED: April 2019
THE STORY OF THIS PROJECT
STAKEHOLDER’S PROBLEM: “We need an accessible way to dive deep into our data and gain an understanding of what it’s trying to tell us.”
South Asian Youth Action (SAYA) is a 501(c)3 youth development organization based in Queens, NY. SAYA’s mission is to foster a strong sense of belonging in youth and provide them with tools to thrive academically, professionally and personally. It currently serves more than 1,500 kindergarten through college-aged youths throughout the City of New York.
As part of NYC’s Community Schools Initiative, SAYA partnered with Richmond Hill High School to operate a mentorship program designed to target at-risk students to improve their school attendance and prevent dropouts. Each week, SAYA’s program administrators and the school’s staff members who were serving as mentors, met to review student data and collaborate on ways they could better support the students enrolled in the mentorship program.
In the spring of 2019, the mentors began to notice some developments concerning the school attendance of their mentees. They wanted to drill down and further investigate these trends. They needed something that would assist them in gaining a better understanding of their data. To solve this problem, I designed and built a filterable, interactive data visualization that illustrated the recent trends in school attendance among the students enrolled in the SAYA intervention program.
Work Process:
Here’s the design process I used to complete this project—
