I have been terrible about posting work up on the blog this semester. I’ve been digging into thesis work, and spending less time on everything else. But there is lots of work to share! So, here’s a quick exercise that I did for my CS class in Data Visualization. The assignment was to find a…
Tag: Class projects
IDStudio2: Visualizing Twitter
It seems I never posted about my ID Studio 2 semester project. The guidelines were very broad: we were given the option of several social media sites, and asked to choose a visualization project using data from that site. I chose to work with data from Twitter, because I thought it would be interesting to…
Genealogy of the Written Word
Seven months later, I finally found a day to sit down and brush up the final details for my Genealogy of the Written Word poster that I presented in my Design History class in October. Here’s the version I presented in class: And my first touched-up version: The biggest change was eliminating the gradient and allowing the map…
VizTech2: Final project
My p5.js class with Pedro Cruz has been working on building a visualization of the CrunchBase database, which gives a list of major companies and who has invested in them. We started the class by building the basic program structure together in a working-group format. At the beginning of each class, Pedro would list a series of tasks on…
DesignTheory: Final poster
We’ve been working on drafts of our final poster for my design theory class with Hugh Dubberly over the past few weeks. The assignment is to create a concept map of our own synthesis of some aspect of design, and to present it as poster form in lieu of a term paper. It’s an interesting…
ResearchMethods: Piling on the data
The next step for my research methods poster is to figure out how to add in the richness of the dataset and a sense of context/importance of the topic for global issues. To do this, I really wanted to get into granular data about land use and soil degradation, rather than sticking with the simple…
ResearchMethods: Settling on a story line
This semester has been a busy one, and the weeks are getting away from me! There’s a lot to talk about, so I’m going to break it up into a few posts. Here, I’d like to catch up on the first couple of drafts of my soil poster for my research methods class. The point…
ResearchMethods: Defining narrative and scope
I think it’s time to start narrowing down my narrative flow for the Research Methods project to help reduce the amount of reading and data processing necessary for the project. At this point, the dominant points seem to be: Soil is a complex system, and critically important for both food security and climate change. Soil has…
ResearchMethods: Experimenting with R Markdown
This is a cut-and-paste of a post created in R Markdown for my Research Methods class with Dietmar Offenhuber. It appears that there is no simple way to load an R Markdown file into a WordPress post, so I’m porting it over manually instead. The original post is here. This is a continuation of the…
VisComm: Monarch butterfly poster
My VisComm class was assigned the task of making a poster on an environmental topic this semester. We chose a general sub-topic (water, land use, etc.) from a list of options, and then researched and created an informational poster to summarize that particular aspect of the environment. I chose to work on biodiversity, and then decided…