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.

Category: NYU

  • Announcements The Extra Credit Post has been corrected with the right ESRI Map link. Spring 2019 Research Assistant Posting:  The Artist Archive Initiative at NYU seeks a graduate student Research Assistant for the Spring of 2019. The student will perform research on the artist Joan Jonas to develop information regarding curating and conserving her…

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  • Two Extra Credit Opportunities (will give you up to 5 extra points on your final grade) Successful completion of each opportunity will give you 2.5 extra credit points on your final grade–so completing both will give you almost half a letter grade! Please email me if you start working on…

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  • Announcements Story Map: Please request to join this ArcGIS group–we will try to get our Story Map up and running today: https://arcg.is/1ub1CS CARTO: If you haven’t already, sign up for a CARTO NYU account: https://nyu.carto.com/signup Access this map of Boston Housing Authority 2007 data Download this data set. Internship opportunity: The Metropolitan…

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  • Announcements If you haven’t already, please accept the invitation called “An invitation to join an ArcGIS Online organization, New York University – Data Services” in your mailbox. This will allow you to work in our class’s collaborative StoryMap today. Internship opportunity: The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is currently accepting…

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  • Announcements If you haven’t already, please accept the invitation called “An invitation to join an ArcGIS Online organization, New York University – Data Services” in your mailbox. This will allow you to work in our class’s collaborative StoryMap next week. Please take a look at your classmates‘ Phase 2 project…

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  • Announcements Please start browsing the data in this folder, we will work on it in class in the coming weeks. ESRI Storymap: Famous Ballpark Foods Agenda Book Day! Check-ins Exercise: data cleaning/assembling Next Week’s Assignments Your Phase 2 paper and presentations are due next week! You must prepare the paper alone (as…

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  • Announcements UPDATED: Community Partners Data Vis 2018 Phase 2 Requirements New class licenses (see your email for the keys) Tableau Class Site Unity Class License Upcoming talk on Oct 30: Turning Big Data into Real Understanding NYU Libraries: Upcoming tutorial classes Agenda Check-Ins Data Pitch: Accountability Project Data Pitch: CSforAll…

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  • Phase 2 Paper. Full draft due November 8. (Final paper due in Phase 3) Please write a 1250+ word research article, creative nonfiction, or ethnography (series of interviews) that critically examines issues faced by your community partner in the process of data visualization. If you need a community partner, consider…

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  • Announcements While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today. New Announcements: New class licenses (see your email for the keys) New Tableau Class site Download Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep here We now also have a class license for Unity. Data…

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  • Announcements While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today. Tableau Visualizations: Please publish your workbooks and edit permissions so that anyone can see the workbooks. Please start to look at the Phase 1 projects of your classmates and jot down some…

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