Thank you for your interest a sample real-world project in the Fetal Neonatal Development Science Center at Boston Children's Hospital. If you're the kind of person who likes to think outside the box, who likes to ponder new ways of visualizing data, then we might have a task to scratch your proverbial itch.
Consider the file browser. It's something that's been around since probably before many of you were born, and yet it's hardly changed at all in its design. A flat panel that shows icons representing "files" and "directories" at a given location in a file system tree. Is this the only way to show this? Are there other ways? It probably won't suprise you that of course there are other ways.
In fact, in a classic case of life imitating art, way back in the 1990s a file browser in the (now sadly defunct) IRIX OS of the ground breaking (but now also sadly dead) Silicon Graphics Company thought of a way to show a file system as city with roads and suburbs. File System Navigator, or fsn, even appeared in the 1993 "Jurassic Park" movie,
And even more fun, you can actually experience something like this today.
Of course, we're not looking to re-invent a file browser. Although, truth be known what we're thinking of isn't too far off...