October | 2015 | Sense & Scale

Data Vis Session 8: Social Justice, Timelines, Persona Design

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 designed for your midterm project. […]

Timeline.js Experiment: Recent Uber Protests Worldwide

Data is in this TimelineJS template.

Data Vis Session 7: Midterm Presentations

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 midterm materials: visualization write-up slides […]

Data Vis Session 6: Geo-sculptures, Function vs. Aesthetic, Midterm Prep

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 Hearst Immersive Hack HackNY Eyebeam: […]

Data Vis Session 5: Data Journalism and Satellite data

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) Landsat Mission Acronyms The Worldwide […]

Data Vis Midterm Requirements

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 JSFiddle or Codepen. If the […]