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

Category: NYU

  • Announcements Check the I&P menu on this site for some updates on web site and fab lab registrations/orientations. Grading Policy (will be added to syllabus) Lateness: For every week it is late, I will subtract 5 points out of 100 as the highest possible grade. This will be enforced starting with…

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  • Announcements See class syllabus here. Check this site for assignment due dates and announcements. Assignments Due Next Friday, February 2 Set up a process website to post your homework, documentation, and projects. Post on your process website: your constant input or output details (what are you going to do?) including proposed…

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  • NYU Blog Setup Information Elton Kwok, IDM Tech Director, will run a blog registration session on Friday, February 2 from 4-6 PM in room 817. Regarding IDM student sites (from Elton): The IDM student websites are located at “sites.bxmc.poly.edu/~<username>”. WordPress sites from NYU Web Publishing are at wp.nyu.edu. For IDM…

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  • listed alphabetically by last name Choe, Christine Choi, Sean Kwong, Joris Lee, Isaac Li, Dan Lim, Ray Lim, Ying Ying Liu, Jax Modzelewski, Eric Parada, Nic Quek, Jonathan Schlossman, Laura Smith, Nathan Swinn, Phoebe Verghese, David Wang, Wentao Yeow, Petrina Yusong, Wang Peh, Zhi Jia

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  • Phase 3 Final Presentations 3:30 Lindsay 3:50 Shuai/Jade/Albert 4:10 Parvez 4:30 Will/Hayeon 4:50 Meshal 5:10 Garima 5:30 Alex 5:50 H1-B (Grafiti) group Final Reminders I will submit grades next Tuesday, so it’s best to make sure that all your assignments are finalized on your blog by Monday. Please be sure…

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  • Agenda: Viacom Agenda here. Address: 1515 Broadway, NYC Be prepared to present 3 minutes per person, in this order. 5:20: Grafiti group (Hasan Ansari, Brian (Chi-Hin) Hui, Akash Kumar, Harsh Trivedi) + 2 feedback/questions 5:39: Alex Lotsos 5:42: Garima Negi + 1 feedback/question 5:46: Meshal Alhathal + 1 feedback/question 5:51: Lindsay Abrams AP groups 5:54: Mona…

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  • Phase 3 (Final) Project, due Dec 14 Develop a polished, accessible, interactive visualization(s) of the data set(s) that you chose with your community partner (CP). In addition to explaining tools and graphics like you did in Phase 1, in Phase 3 I’d like you to explain the process of developing…

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  • GOOD VIS Easy to understand Clean Interactivity Appropriate use of color/shape/intensity Clarity with simple coherent view Fulfills business requirement Real-time depiction of events Titles, Annotations, short description BAD VIS Incorrect information Lack of uniformity Wrong scale Lack of context Unfit for the “business” (audience) requirement They’re trying to do too…

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  • Announcements NIH Human Subjects Training Agenda for Viacom visit AP data update: experience levels Phase 1 resubmissions Agenda Good vis exercise Bad vis exercise Break Color discussion Open discussion Next Week’s Assignments Start your Phase 3 assignment and post an update to your blog. Straighten out any issues around meeting…

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  • Announcements Please fill out this 2-question survey to help prepare the agenda for our visit to Viacom on December 7. Please fill out this 3-question survey to help with room booking for our last day of class. If you haven’t already, I strongly suggest that you share your Phase 2…

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