cmd-011. a concise weekly report that shows progress toward goals for a youth mentorship program.
PROJECT COMPLETED: May 2019
THE STORY OF THIS PROJECT
STAKEHOLDER’S PROBLEM: “Our team needs timely, relevant and straight-to-the-point reports that contain actionable information.”
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.
When I first began attending the weekly team meetings, I saw that each week, mentors were being presented with a large amount of data delivered in a spreadsheet format. The data was very dense and difficult to read. Within this huge sea of data, it was rather difficult for each mentor to locate relevant information on the mentees in their individual caseload. To solve this problem, I designed and produced concise, individualized weekly data reports for each mentor working in the SAYA intervention program.
Work Process:
Here’s the design process I used to complete this project—
Final Results:
cmd-005. a visual that shows the effect that an external challenge is having on a nonprofit program.
PROJECT COMPLETED: April 2019
THE STORY OF THIS PROJECT
STAKEHOLDER’S PROBLEM: “We think we see something happening on the ground. We want to consult the data and have it either confirm our gut feeling or point us in the right direction.”
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 program’s mentors became concerned about the effect that weather was having on school attendance. They had anecdotal evidence that inclement weather or unseasonably warm temperatures were resulting in lower school attendance. However, they wanted a way to compare what they were witnessing individually to the overall data as a whole. To solve this problem, I designed and built an interactive data visualization that tracked the SAYA mentees’ school attendance against the weather conditions on each day school was in session.
Work Process:
Here’s the design process I used to complete this project—
Final Results:
cmd-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—
Final Results:
cmd-003. a visual that tracks the effectiveness of an intervention program for at-risk youth.
PROJECT COMPLETED: March 2019
THE STORY OF THIS PROJECT
STAKEHOLDER’S PROBLEM: “We need a simple way to monitor the effectiveness of our intervention program.”
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.
When I began attending the weekly meetings, I saw that each week, mentors were being presented with a large amount of data delivered in a spreadsheet format. The data was very dense and difficult to read. From looking at the spreadsheet, it was very difficult for the mentors to discern exactly what the data was saying about their mentees. Also, since the data was granular (line-by-line) and not summarized, it was very difficult to compare the mentees to the overall student body or to examine subgroups of students within the mentorship program. To solve these problems, I designed and built a visualization, that was updated each week, that showed at a glance the current status and the weekly progress of the students in the SAYA intervention program.
Work Process:
Here’s the design process I used to complete this project—
