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.

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Category: NYU

  • Announcements Kevin Miklasz sent a few more R notes. Final Requirements are now posted. Let me know if you have questions. Dec 3’s class will have a lot of work/feedback time in preparation for Dec 10. If you want to follow-along with today’s Arduino/Processing visualization tutorial, install the software listed…

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  • From our R expert (R-xpert?) Kevin Miklasz. Thanks Kevin! Here is a link to an expanded sample file that shows some common functions I use, and is mostly focused on some graphing parameters I use a lot (at the bottom of the script). None of the graphing functions will work as…

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  • For this week’s class, you can experiment visualizing a Twitter livestream by connecting Peiqi Su’s penis modules and other output device, to an Arduino. I’ve included sample code below and will expand this tutorial for those who are interested. The tutorial will assume basic understanding of Arduino and Processing, particularly installing libraries…

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  • Announcements Global Action Project seeks a Media History Timeline Coordinator to use Timeline.js with youth, as well as an Immigrant Video Youth coordinator. To start immediately! If you haven’t already, Install R. Download this sample stats file. Final Requirements are now posted. Let me know if you have questions. Agenda 6:30-7:30 Rafi Santos,…

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  • Final, due December 10 Note: Evaluation keywords are highlighted in orange.  Develop an interactive visualization(s) of a significant dataset for a general audience with no previous knowledge of the data. If the visualization is online, it should be deployed on a standalone web page—do not use code playgrounds like JSFiddle or Codepen.…

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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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  • [post in progress] TODAY’S AGENDA Follow-up from midterm presentations. Lecture: Traffic & appcessory paradigms, by Brian Langel, Dash & NYU CS. Break Let’s practice literature review. Groups. Varun/Graham/Justin Greg/Matt Michael/Bartosz/Tong Tania/Clàudia Kania/Dimas Will Chanyeon Some Lit Review Resources: Google Scholar Google Patents ACM Digital Library (free access from an NYU or…

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