Announcements and Links

• Catherine D’Ignazio presentation
• Nat Geo: Data Visualization from Eye Candy to Efficiency
• NYU Libraries Data Services
• MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference
• NYC Media Lab Combine (incubator)
• Verizon Connected Futures Prototyping Challenge
• NYU Stern Conference on Big Data and Mobile Marketing
• New School Platform Coopertivism Internet and Democracy Conference
• Hearst Immersive Hack
• HackNY
• Eyebeam: Download Conference (Computational Fashion)
• Eyebeam: Radical Networks Conference

Agenda

• 6:30-7:30: Ekene Ijeoma lecture / Q&A
• 7:30-8:00: Class updates
• 8:00-8:10: Break
• 8:10-8:55(ish): Kevin Miklasz lecture entitled “Function vs. aesthetics in data visualization: some case studies”
• 8:55-9:20: Work time and feedback from guests

Notes

• TBD 

Next Week’s Assignments

• Midterm, due next week. A full project brief is here. If it will help you prepare, I can write a walk-through of one of my previous visualization projects (which includes a write-up) that is about the same scope as a midterm or final, depending on your prior technical experience. You can see the project files for this vis, called “Networks in Equity and Sustainability,” at Github.
• Make sure your 5 blog posts (not including the midterm) are up by next week. If you owe extra credit for a missed class(es), be sure to expand one of your assignments accordingly. Let me know if you have any questions about this.