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NYU Data Vis 2018.11: Distinguished Alum, Collaborative Tools

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 New York Library Council (METRO) […]

MIT Workshop: Physical Computing, Prototyping, Cities, and Selves

MIT Workshop: Physical Computing, Prototyping, Cities, and Selves: A Day-long Hackathon When: Monday, Jan 11, 10AM-4PM. Where: Room 9-451 (Map) Please bring – A laptop – Your favorite microcontroller module (ie an Arduino) + a cable to connect it to your laptop – Optional: your smartphone + a cable to connect it to your laptop […]

MIT Workshop: More Resources

More hardware stuff: Adafruit BLE breakout to the iPhone. Further practice (zip file). Set up a GPS/SD logger shield (arduino sketch). Pulse Plus GPS/SD logger Simple Demo 1 Simple Demo 2 Optional voltron time. Another useful resource: Instructables.com. Small batch PCB: https://oshpark.com/, http://www.smallbatchassembly.com/ (best small batch prices as of 2014) A bit more iPhone stuff: iOS basic tutorial. […]

Prototyping, Cities, and Selves: Quickstart Presentations and Links

Slideshows on Contexts: HCI sub-fields. Prototyping considerations. Overview of prototyping platforms. Physical Computing. Arduino. Quick Start Guide. Dummies guide. Suppliers. Overview of mobile platforms (developer/designer perspective, business perspective). iOS intro. Arlene’s iOS/BLE/Sensor Crash Course. Lab: Digital I/O with Arduino.

Sensor List

SENSOR LIST SparkFun Infrared Proximity Breakout – VCNL4000 BOB-10901 Optical Dust Sensor – GP2Y1010AU0F COM-09689 Vibration Motor ROB-08449 Alcohol Gas Sensor – MQ-3 SEN-08880 Piezo Vibration Sensor – Small Horizontal SEN-09198 Carbon Monoxide Sensor – MQ-7 SEN-09403 Methane CNG Gas Sensor – MQ-4 SEN-09404 LPG Gas Sensor – MQ-6 SEN-09405 SparkFun Capacitive Touch Sensor […]

Tutorial: Visualizing MindRider data in 3D using QGIS and QGIS2threejs

Here’s a link to the live visualization. And good news: this tutorial involves no coding! Background More soon. For now, you can learn about MindRider helmet and data at their respective web sites. Getting Started Download QGIS and install (from QGIS) the QGIS2threejs plugin. Obtain this tutorial’s data, which includes these vector shapefiles: a MindRider sample dataset (800 […]

Session 12: Final Presentations

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 and an additional guest (Clàudia’s […]

Session 11: Rights, Justice, Experience, Feedback, Prep for Final!

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. Be prepared to play test, […]

Session 10: Updates, Persona Stories, User Considerations

[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 some time with each of […]

Session 9: Transportation Policy, Analysis, Visualization

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 article (for sample discussion) OpenIR […]