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: DataVis

  • Announcements Tech check Seating check Giveaways Current upcoming class activity dates: 10/21: Remote class with “Human Subjects” training  10/26 or 10/28: Gowanus (infrastructure), weather allowing 11/02: Visit to Bobst 11/9 or 11/11: Borough Hall (politics), weather allowing 11/16: Remote Environmental and Racial Justice conference 11/23: Visit to Dibner 12/02: Remote…

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  • Announcements If I forget to start recording when a guest speaker begins, please remind me to press “RECORD!” Thanks in advance. The TCS department is asking students to fill out this survey on asynchronous learning options for future semesters: https://nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0jmCuZC2cEavqjX Guest speakers from Session 18 (Multi-sensory reading) have sent a…

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  •  CSforAll, Group 1: Member Orgs CSforAll, Group 2: Commitments MIT CREATE Multimer / Associated Press BrainPOP  Extra Credit Group Project: NYU Activism 2017 Extra Credit Group Project: Boston Housing Authority 2007.08 (Arlene, demo map) 2008 (Evelyn) 2009 (Evelyn) 2010 (Steven) 2011.01 – 2011.06 (Zhenwen) 2011.07 – 2011.12 (Zhenwen) 2012 (Simin) 2013 (Simin) 2015 (Richelle) 2016_01 (Emilie,…

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  • 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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