Projects

Archive

A collection of recent projects by Nikhil Chinchalkar


NYC Trees

Modeled a 3D environment of New York City's trees to highlight division within the city and the importance of trees.
Developed a foundational understanding of GIS data, Python in Blender, and working with Princeton's Adroit-Vis cluster.
Documented all work using GitBook and published movie to YouTube.

Softwares: Blender, Python, Premiere Pro, QGIS, R, GitBook

GitHub

July 2024







Campaign Trails

Led a 5-person group to analyze Presidential candidates' campaign visits to find patterns to predict future elections.
Created 6 interactive maps using R to visualize candidate's travels over time, using gganimate, ggplot2, and GIS.
Published findings to an online website created using JavaScript that held the front page at cornelldatajournal.org.

Softwares: JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Excel, R, Python

GitHub

September - November 2024







Animated Visualizations in R

Developed tutorials for 13 different animations, both basic and advanced, all exclusively within R.
Included pushing the limits of packages ggplot2, gganimate, and plotly to generate never-before-seen visuals.
Documented every line of code using GitBook and gave a workshop to 12 students and researchers at Princeton University.

Softwares: R, GitBook

GitHub

June 2024







Billboard Analysis

Lead a 7-person project where we made several visualizations detailing how top music (Billboard Top 100) changed since 1960.
Included using the Genius API (LyricGenius), NLTK, gganimate, and ggplot2.
Visualizations published to and hosted on billboardsentiments.com

Softwares: R, Python, Premiere Pro, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Excel

GitHub

January - May 2024







Big Red Sports Network: Baseball Analytics

Worked with BaseballR to create an interactive webpage that described the context behind a walk-off homerun for Cornell baseball in 2012.
Skill included generating meaningful plots, modeling an environment, and implementing scroll-based animations.
Published to BRSN's website.

Softwares: R, Excel, HTML, CSS, Blender, Premiere Pro

GitHub

April - May 2024