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

  • Final, due December 10 Note: Evaluation keywords are highlighted in orange.  Develop an interactive visualization(s) of a significant dataset for a general audience with no previous knowledge of the data. If the visualization is online, it should be deployed on a standalone web page—do not use code playgrounds like JSFiddle or Codepen.…

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  • Announcements Download QGIS and (from QGIS) QGIS2threejs http://www.datasociety.net/ Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest Agenda 6:30-7:30 Austin Lee, CMU/Microsoft 7:30-8:00 Class updates 8:00-8:10 Break 8:10-9:20 MindRider, QGIS, three.js Links 3D GIS Examples MindRider 3D data visualizations: test01 (just downtown) test02 (all of Manhattan) test03 (just downtown, with color-coded buildings) test04 (downtown with attention-meditation data)…

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  • 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:…

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  • Announcements http://www.datasociety.net/ Agenda 6:30-7:00 Class updates 7:00-7:30 Bex Hurwitz, Founder, Research Action Design 7:30-8:00 Timeline.js Exercise 8:00-8:10 Break 8:10-9:20 Finish Timelines, add Personas Assignment for Nov 5 No Class next week! Expand on your timeline exercise and post to your blog OR upload and discuss the persona design images that your classmate…

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  • Data is in this TimelineJS template.

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  • Presentation Order 6:30-6:35 Announcements 6:35-6:45 Sandra Song 6:48-6:58 Daniel Silber-Baker 7:01-7:11 Neill Chua 7:14-7:24 Sweta Mohapatra 7:27-7:37 Sam Tarakaijan 7:40-7:50 Hovsep Agop 7:50-8:10 BREAK. Please fill out this class evaluation. 8:00-8:10 Helen Carey / Sriya Sarkar 8:13-8:23 Gabe Weintraub 8:26-8:36 Marijke Jorritsma 8:39-8:49 Patrick Moraitis 9:02-9:12 Anneka Goss 9:12-9:20 Final Notes Announcements http://monoskop.org/Bauhaus Next Week’s Assignments Post all your…

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  • Announcements and Links Catherine D’Ignazio presentation Nat Geo: Data Visualization from Eye Candy to Efficiency NYU Libraries Data Services MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference NYC Media Lab Combine (incubator) Verizon Connected Futures Prototyping Challenge NYU Stern Conference on Big Data and Mobile Marketing New School Platform Coopertivism Internet and Democracy Conference…

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  • Announcements and Links Data Visualization from Eye Candy to Efficiency Agenda 6:30-7:15: Updates (including visualization assignments) 7:15-8:15: Catherine D’Ignazio lecture / Q&A 8:15-8:25: Break 8:25-9:15: Remote sensing (satellite data) lecture / Q&A. Guest co-speaker: Ilias Koen. 9:15-9:20: Final notes and comments Notes Remote sensing: Spectral, Temporal, Spatial Working with Landsat Data (2006)…

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  • Midterm, due October 15 Note: Keywords are highlighted in orange.  Develop an interactive visualization(s) of a large (5000+ records) dataset for a general audience with no previous knowledge of the data. If the visualization is online, it should be deployed on a standalone web page—do not use code playgrounds like…

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  • Announcements and Links CUNY Interactivity Conference (via Marijke): http://interactivity.splashthat.com/ Use the code “JSTUDENT” to get 30% off the ticket. New books Tutorial section NYC Data Science From Catherine Cramer: Presentation deck Teaching Network Literacy NetSci High Design Make Play book (and articles that cite it) Agenda 6:30-7:15: Updates (including visualization assignments) 7:15-8:00:…

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