EVIE LIU

Big data reveals late night TV’s most frequent flyers

I scraped over 16,000 episodes of data for five of America’s major late night talk shows from IMDb, covering 50 years-worth of records. The data were cleaned, analyzed, restructured, and imported into relational database. I then built the interactive application illustrating the frequency of appearance through the size of each guest’s headshot: The bigger the photo is, the more someone has appeared on the show. Readers can also filter through different hosts or click on any of the guests to read more about them. 

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Tools: Python BeautifulSoup, Python Pandas, MySQL, Javascript, D3 Treemap

And how close you live to them

Translated from pages of NYPD's hand-written notes and sketches, this is the first comprehensive searchable map of NYC's gang turfs.

Tools: Optical character recognition, NYC Developer Portal Geoclient API, geocoding, online mapping

Find your candidate by what they hate

Still looking for your presidential candidate? Well, what do you hate? The Daily News has found a dozen things some candidates can't stand, from Islam to talking about your hair.

A state-by-state look at Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s biggest controversies, flubs and insults

What a sorry state of affairs. This year’s leading presidential candidates, Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, have spent decades in the public spotlight – giving them connections and controversies in each state. Toggle between the candidates’ maps below for a state-by-state look at Clinton and Trump – and 50 reasons to pause before casting your vote for either candidate on Election Day.

Map game designed for user engagement

​Explore to discover some noted Bigfoot stomping grounds. Click on map to find them!

Interactive team photo

​It's been an Amazin' season for the Mets as Terry Collins' bunch has defied the expectations and reached the World Series faster than even the diehards could have imagined. Check out the Daily News' interactive team photo to see how this Mets team was constructed.