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Data Vis 2018 Phase 2 Requirements

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 the list of confirmed community […]

NYU Data Vis 2018.06: ProPublica, NYU Data Services

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 Vis 2018 Phase 2 Requirements is […]

NYU Data Vis 2018.05: Phase 1, 3D, Multimer, NYSCI

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 comments/questions for each visualization. NYU […]

3D Visualization Tutorials and Resources

Tutorials Molecular Visualization Tutorial (Including PDB) Modeling Quaternions in Unity How to add real world Unity3D maps to your game or application with Mapbox Scene Kit Tutorial iOS Relevant Unity Docs XR: VR, AR, MR Scripting “Visualization” in Unity documentation Some Spatial Data Resources AMNH Digital Universe Protein Data Bank Software and SDKs Mapbox SDK for […]

NYU Data Vis 2018.04: Check-Ins, Activist Scavenger Hunt Data

Announcements While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today. NYU Libraries: Upcoming tutorial classes on data visualization, analysis, and management software NYU Libraries Digital Humanities Flyer. Locative Media as Participatory Archives of Civic Engagement Agenda Check-ins Workshop Time Guest speaker: Marina Hassapopoulou, NYU Cinema Studies […]

Data Vis 2018 Phase 1 Project Requirements

Phase 1 Project, due October 4 Note: Keywords are highlighted in orange. Develop a polished, accessible interactive visualization(s) of a pre-approved dataset for a general audience with no previous knowledge of the data. CHECKLIST: Dataset approved: You must receive approval to use the dataset by October 1 OR use a dataset from the class’s pre-approved […]

NYU Data Vis 2018.03: Informal Economies and Learning Networks

Announcements While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today. MIT CREATE Mozilla Hive NYC CSforAll Agenda Guest Speaker: Kate Mytty of MIT CREATE. Some examples that might be relevant: https://www.openprocessing.org/sketch/462297 https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4062045 Guest Speaker: Rafi Santo of NYU and CSforAll. Vis exercises so far. Next Week’s […]

NYU Data Vis 2018.02: Makers, Histories, Data, Toolkits.

Announcements While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links to prepare for class today. http://www.urbanmakereconomy.org/ http://www.bostonhousing.org/ 2018 Community Partners and Student Blogs now posted (see class menu) Agenda Guest Speaker: Laura Wolf-Powers on Urban Makers. Guest Speaker: Jonathan Tarleton from Boston Housing Authority. A Brief History of Data Vis and […]

NYU Data Vis 2018 Student Blogs

in alphabetical order by last name Simin Gu Chian Huang Yan Huang Richelle Newby Emilie Shen Yuanyuan (Nicole) Song Jingyuan (Evelyn) Xu Steven (Dong Woo) Yoo Zhenwen (Wayne) Zhang

2018 Community Partners: Updated Frequently!

Confirmed Partners Accountability Project (contact: Ryan Schlief) Data: https://ewsdata.rightsindevelopment.org/login/?next=/projects/ Since we have a mix of data, including community generated and scraped ‘public’ data, the project could involve 1) pulling together our community generated data (via survey monkey) in 5 countries to discover commonalities and differences in how communities experience development projects. (Ex https://accountabilityproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/IAP_8steps_infographic.pdf) For the scraped ‘public’ […]