For the second week of my Design Synthesis class, we continued developing marks and logotypes for our chosen site. I started out with lots of loose sketching of animals, trees, or mountains/rivers from photos of the forest. Many of these were far too decorative, but they helped me to get a feel for the place,…
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DesignSynthesis: Site selection
I’m really excited to be taking another studio elective with Doug Scott this spring. The class is called Design Synthesis, and it’s a mixed undergrad-grad course to focus on design principles. As always, Doug has a rigorous schedule planned, with lots of different components. We will be designing a brand identity for a UNESCO World…
Thesis: Brainstorming the exhibition
My thesis seminar section is beginning to plan for the class exhibition in April. My thesis project is web-based, so the challenge for me will be to turn a detailed exploratory site into something that users can engage with in a few minutes in physical space. The thesis project is about soil: as an ecosystem,…
ThesisSite: World Population Data
I’ve been working on a first draft visualization of world population data today. Over break, I took a step back and looked at the stories I’d like to tell with the soil data, to get a better sense of where to focus for the months ahead. The first revelation was that it’s going to take…
SWC2016: Playing with animations
While looking at examples of visualizations for my thesis writing this fall, I was struck by how many made effective use of documentary-style narrative visualization in some way. Whether used as an introduction to orient the user, or used as the primary technique in the piece, many successful visualizations are based on cinematic techniques that incorporate…
CS7280: Mapping Ecoregions
This project was completed as part of a homework assignment for my Special Topics in Data Science – Data Visualization (CS7280) class taught by Michelle Borkin in the fall of 2016. The assignment was to create a visualization using a dataset of interest to us, and to create three linked views, at least one of which included…
IDStudio3: Food Flow
As discussed in my last post, I chose to change my dataset for my Studio3 class, since the land use data had completeness issues and Mauro preferred that I not work on a dashboard as part of his class. Instead, he wanted me to work on something more expressive, with more interesting data. I chose…
IDStudio3: Assessing data completeness
Working on the flower animation for the land use data in my last post brought an important issue to the forefront: data completeness. While working on my initial sketches and reconsidering the structure of the visualization that I wanted to create, I was also working on collecting data for all of the different metrics across multiple years. I assembled…
IDStudio3: Land use revisited
After completing the soil poster in static form for my Research Methods class, I decided that I wanted to explore the possibilities of digital interactive media for representing multi-dimensional data of this kind. The poster format required that I present only a single snapshot of the data, and made it hard to provide additional detail…
SWC2016: Entering the third dimension
I fell really far behind in posting last semester, but wanted to catch up on documenting some projects. I wrote before about my experiments with the HTML5 canvas for my Sketching with Code class with Noah Paessel; today, I wanted to talk about my final project for that class a bit. For the last couple…