Sense & Scale

A site to explore cultures, cities, and computing at varying senses and scales. Updated by Ar Ducao, with content from classes at NYU, MIT, CUNY and more.

Contact: see syllabi

Author: arlduc

  • Announcements and Links New books and blogs Storefront for Art and Architecture show Visualized Conference Open Society / Knight Challenge Codepen and JSFiddle Networks in Equity and Sustainability Agenda 6:30-7:15: Discussion of NYC Open Data query assignment. 7:15-8:00: Catherine Cramer lecture + Q&A 8:00-8:10: Break 8:10-9:20: Visualization Design Activity: 8:10-8:15: Individual…

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  • Background   What is Socrata? Socrata is a Seattle-based company, originally founded as Blist in 2007, that has engineered the platform for a number of open government databases, including that of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, the White House, and a number of federal agencies. Socrata catalogs all its open datasets…

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  • Announcements and Links Groups Next week: NYSCI ideation, lit review exercise Punctuality and assignments Agenda 6:30-7:00- Book Club 7:00-8:00- Lecture: Data Vis Toolbox 8:00-8:10- Break 8:00-8:45- Review of class blogs 8:45-9:15: Discussion of spreadsheet functions and database queries 9:15-9:20- Next Week’s Assignments Notes The full Socrata/SODA/SoQL tutorial is now up! Please use it…

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  • Now with final projects. In alphabetical order by first author. Good work everyone!   Company Acquisitions (1980-2015) by Hovsep Agop & Sandra Song A Visual Exploration of US Election Project Data by Helen Carey & Sriya Sarkar Major World Locations’ Live Temperature Anomalies by Neill Chua & Patrick Moraitis Beyond…

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  • Announcements While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links as food for thought. Example Vis: Transit Visualization Client, Conversation Concept Map, MIT ML Pantheon Example Data Source: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), NYC Open Data Example application of data visualization: The Next America, The Search for High Energy…

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  • Data Visualization from 2D to 4D [Screen Graphics to Physical Objects] DM-GY 9103, Fall 2015 Prof. Arlene Ducao, arlduc [at] nyu.edu Thursdays, 6:30-9:20 PM 2 Metrotech, Room 811 Overview What is data visualization? Why and how do we do it? This course will take you through the process of understanding…

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  • It was a beautiful day to be stationed on the 9th floor of NYU’s Kimmel Center. With floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Washington Square and Chelsea at our backs, each group of our QSAT class presented its final results to guest critics J.D. Godchaux of NiJeL.org and Alyssa Wright of Mapzen. A potluck snack table…

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  • Announcements Simband development kits Worst Pothole in Brooklyn Expectations for the final. See assignment below. Next week’s FINAL: Location: Kimmel Center, Room 903 Sign up for potluck here. TODAY’S AGENDA 12:10-12:15: Announcements 12:15-12:35: Colleen Kaman, IBM iX 12:35-12:55: Bex Hurwitz, RightsCon 12:55-1:15: Q&A 1:15-1:25: BREAK 1:25-3:00: Play/user/demo Sessions and work time.…

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  • [post in progress] TODAY’S AGENDA Announcements Next week’s class Final class: potluck? Game Research Methods Project updates. Be ready to show your data vis and talk about your plan for our last two weeks! Poem: “User“ Hands-On Session: Persona and User Stories. BREAK Persona Presentations. Project-development time. I will spend…

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  • TODAY’S AGENDA Announcements JHU: Preparing your data for analysis NYU Wagner seeking grad students to be Transportation RAs Lecture: Crowd and open data, by Sarah Kauffman, NYU Wagner. BREAK Literature Review Updates Further visualization options Standalone: Leaflet, D3, Kartograph, Polymaps Hosted accounts: MapBox/TileMill, CartoDB, etc MR samples for TileMill. WIRED…

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