SimpleChartsRI is a web-based tool that helps users create visualizations. SimpleChartsRI provides fundamental charting options that enables users to simply create charts, without downloading a program or paying a fee.

A team of two students—Matthew M. Spaulding & Samantha Palacio—created this website over the course of ten weeks in the Summer of 2020. Matthew programmed the website, while Samantha guided the direction of the site by completing tasks such as creating user requirements, designing an intitial prototype, analyzing survey feedback, and researching existing visualizers. Both students attended Rhode Island College at the time of development.
Their work was done under the supervision of Sally Hamouda from the CSIS department and Anabela Maia from the Biology department.

A student of Rhode Island College—Sean Khang—working over the course of ten weeks in the Summer of 2021 continued to update the website. Sean added new features such as the sample page and updated the design of the website such as the format of the resource and about pages. He attended Rhode Island College during the time of development.
His work was done under the supervision of Sally Hamouda from the CSIS department and Anabela Maia from the Biology department.

A student of Rhode Island School of Design - Shun Huang - working over the course of five weeks in the Summer of 2022 redesigned UX from research to conception, visualization and testing.

A student of Rhode Island College—Nate Erickson—working over the course of five weeks in the Summer of 2022 added new features including: User Login, Registration and Password Reset, “Save Chart to Cloud” Option and “My Charts” User Cloud Storage page. Additionally, Teacher and Student specific website experiences were created.

Their work was done under the supervision of Sally Hamouda from the CSIS department and Anabela Maia from the Biology department.

This material is based upon work supported in part by the National Science Foundation under EPSCoR Cooperative Agreement #OIA-1655221. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.