General Electric + SCAD
The brief was to create a tool for data visualization to empower internal GE users to predict and foresight patterns and trends in their past operations. This tool would allow them to identify areas of opportunity as well as gaps to apply new operations and strategies for their future locomotives. GE Transportation provided us with 10,000 data points that belonged to historical data collected from their locomotives.
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13 Designers
948 Hours
263 Sticky Notes
110 Pizza Slices
91 Cups of Coffee
16 Slack Channels
Data is like an eagle. It is majestic and beautiful with a powerful and loud scream.
- Sarah ( GE Team Manager)
In a team of 13 designers and two professors, my tasks varied between research and visual communication for the first part of the project. The process involved a survey approach to use case studies, stakeholders, SWOT, current trends, analogous project models, and more. Primary research was then conducted in order to get more specific information about our partners. I assisted in the production of the process book and environmental graphics to be created for the final presentation, as well as developing my own prototype.
Research
GE Transportation conducted a workshop with their employees prior to our project kick-off in order to provide us with insights into their employees values, behaviors, and needs as our core users. They developed personas with storyboards for us to work with, categorized into four GE Transportation departments.
Final Concepts: Loco Lifecycle by Christa Morrone
After parsing out the 10,000 data points received by GE, we utilized different basic data visualization tools to understand the relationships between our variables.
Loco Lifecycle allows users to watch a moment in time (of the users’ choice) of a locomotives life using historical GPS data. They can find insights by diving further into the map view, uncovering opportunities related to hybridization, wheel efficiency, and more. As the user pauses the visualization they can make comparisons of utilizations during different months.
This prototype was user tested by GE staff and is currently being tested on site in their workshops to better enhance the experience for GE employees and their needs.
