The Coronavirus Visualization Team (CVT) is a non-profit organization from Harvard University, consisting of a group of highly motivated students working towards fighting the overwhelming influx of misinformation during this pandemic. We have partnered with the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis and MIT Innovation Initiative and currently have well over 200 members working on more than 25 projects.
End Gender-Based Violence is one such project. The sharp rise in domestic and sexual violence against women during the COVID-19 pandemic leaves much to be accomplished in terms of rehabilitation and employment options for the victims. Helplines have never been busier and unmet abortion needs are expected to skyrocket. Our team aims to study this data, extract valuable insights, and help devise possible solutions to these challenges. I am currently involved as the Project Co-Lead for this project and our partners include Safe Horizon, Rhode Island Coalition Against Domestic Violence (RICADV), Harvard Medical School and Columbia University.
Some of our existing results include:
- Visualizations for 9 cities in the United States, which compares violent crimes against women during 2019 and 2020 by plotting latitude-longitude data on maps with a street-level view.
- A week-wise comparison of police reports and month-wise comparison of domestic violence hotline calls in Providence, Rhode Island for the years 2019 and 2020.
- Interactive time-series visualizations which capture the increase in crimes and their locations with progress in time.
All images and animations were generated using Python and Tableau. Data acquisition was aided by Columbia University and RICADV.
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