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.

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Category: DataVis

  • Class Blogs and Final Projects (in alphabetical order by creator’s last name): MindRider by Anna Bialas Community Partner: MindRider GAP Field Scan by Sara Camnasio Community Partner: Global Action Project NYU Ability Lab by Jasmine Chabra Community Partner: NYU Ability Project Parliamentary Polarization by Nicole Cote Community Partner: Prof. Arthur…

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  • Announcements While you’re waiting for class to begin, please take a look at the links as food for thought. Example Vis: Transit Visualization Client, Conversation Concept Map, MIT ML Pantheon Example Data Source: Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), NYC Open Data Example application of data visualization: The Next America, The Search for High Energy…

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  • Data Visualization from 2D to 4D [Screen Graphics to Physical Objects] DM-GY 9103-C, Fall 2016 Prof. Arlene Ducao, arlduc [at] nyu.edu Thursdays, 4:30-7:20 PM 2 Metrotech, Room 811 Overview What is data visualization? Why and how do we do it? Who do we do it for? This course will take…

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  • Announcements No break in this session. Please feel free to get up and use the restroom and/or get refreshments as needed. Reminder: Final Grade Checklist, see below Lower Eastside Girls Club looking for mentors in web programming, physical computing, and Unity/3d/Planetarium programming Agenda 6:30-6:40 Announcements and Intros 6:40-7:05 Global Climate Change (Patrick &…

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  •   Are there significantly more appearances of X-Men or Avengers characters in the Marvel Universe? Well, we haven’t quite answered the question, but this data and script play with the topic. Links and notes below: marvel0_modified.csv Notes: This csv contains data on the first 100 characters from the Marvel API (thanks…

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  • Announcements Please fill out now: potluck and +1s Final Grade Checklist, see below For screen-based projects: Research Science Knowledgebase: Analysis For tangible projects: Human-Centered Design Kit Looking for hardcore movie fans Agenda 6:30-6:45 Announcements and Updates 6:45-8:45 One-on-one sessions Tania van Bergen: General Storytelling Feedback Arlene: focus on Context/Analysis requirements, answers…

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  • Announcements Kevin Miklasz sent a few more R notes. Final Requirements are now posted. Let me know if you have questions. Dec 3’s class will have a lot of work/feedback time in preparation for Dec 10. If you want to follow-along with today’s Arduino/Processing visualization tutorial, install the software listed…

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  • From our R expert (R-xpert?) Kevin Miklasz. Thanks Kevin! Here is a link to an expanded sample file that shows some common functions I use, and is mostly focused on some graphing parameters I use a lot (at the bottom of the script). None of the graphing functions will work as…

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  • For this week’s class, you can experiment visualizing a Twitter livestream by connecting Peiqi Su’s penis modules and other output device, to an Arduino. I’ve included sample code below and will expand this tutorial for those who are interested. The tutorial will assume basic understanding of Arduino and Processing, particularly installing libraries…

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  • Announcements Global Action Project seeks a Media History Timeline Coordinator to use Timeline.js with youth, as well as an Immigrant Video Youth coordinator. To start immediately! If you haven’t already, Install R. Download this sample stats file. Final Requirements are now posted. Let me know if you have questions. Agenda 6:30-7:30 Rafi Santos,…

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