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Zhanyang Liu

Political Science • University of Wisconsin–Madison

Projects

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MSI Capstone Project: Electric Vehicle Sales Visualization

This project visualizes trends in electric vehicle (EV) sales across the United States using Streamlit. I designed a geographic and temporal interface for exploring patterns by state and year, making complex transportation data accessible through interactive visualizations.

Streamlit Data Visualization Geographic Analysis Python
Live Demo

Tornado Event Visualization Dashboard

As part of a collaborative project, I built multiple modules in a Streamlit dashboard to visualize tornado patterns in the U.S. — including monthly frequency, size distribution, and state-wise intensity. The dashboard offers interactive plots built with Altair for comprehensive meteorological data exploration.

Streamlit Altair Collaborative Project Meteorological Data
In Development

Religious Framing Classifier in Political Discourse

This project applies natural language processing techniques to classify religious references in political speech as either emphasizing group identity or personal religiosity. Using a fine-tuned sentence-BERT model and SHAP for interpretability, I built a comprehensive pipeline from data annotation and preprocessing to model training and analysis.

Natural Language Processing BERT SHAP Political Science
Research Project

Political Opinion Clustering from Election Data in the Middle East

Applied unsupervised learning techniques (PCA, K-means) to election survey data to uncover distinct clusters in political attitudes among voters in the Middle East. Generated clean visual summaries of each latent group, revealing underlying patterns in political preferences and demographic correlations.

Principal Component Analysis K-means Clustering Survey Data MENA Studies