Blog Articles
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Fall Projects: User Research
My Information Architecture class conducted a semester-long, group project to develop a website prototype for a small business or nonprofit group. My group, including Eleanor Meyer, Jan Diolola, Storey Radziunas and me, formed a group called Community Design and selected the West 104th Street Block Association as our client. Since I have a prior relationship…
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Infovis Review: Fast Company World Leaders
I posted this today on Tumblr at infovis658: This infographic is from Fast Company’s fastcocreate.com website and means to describe what each country on the planet leads the world in. At first glance the labels resemble a tag cloud in its informal font style, curved placement and color scheme. The dangling participle in the title also…
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Field Trip: Conde Nast Library
Field trip: House and Garden, volumes from 1904 to 19teens, Condé Nast Library. 1904 to 1906 contains stories on designs for the Manhattan Bridge and a new entrance to Central Park at 59th street. Also an article on estimating home improvement costs (the merits of a $48/dozen box of lighting globes versus an already shocking…
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New York Times Paywall: an Infovis Review
My Tumblr post today to infovis658: This past week, Ryan Chittum of the Columbia Journalism Review published a series of articles examining the effect of The New York Times’s paywall on revenue. Accompanying the pieces are a series of graphs breaking out various categories of revenue. The first article exclaims that the paywall has overtaken digital…
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E-Portfolio Completed
An e-Portfolio is one of the degree requirements for the Pratt MSLIS program. I just sent mine in and a few minutes later, I got a note that I passed. Now I can focus on my class projects. My e-Portfolio
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Nature Conservancy: An Infovis Review
Posted on Tumblr 9/20/2013 to infovis658: The Nature Conservancy features a Carbon Footprint Calculator that asks the user a series of questions about their energy use with regard to home, travel, diet and waste. Each answer translates to an estimated carbon usage, which are added up and compared to the U.S. average. As I was answering…
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U.S. Historical Voting Patterns: An Infovis Review
Posted to Tumblr on 10/4/2013 to infovis658: This series of geographic representations of voting patterns in the U.S. by Elizabeth Anderson and Jeffrey Jones of the University of Michigan focuses on changes over time in the Southern states, particularly the early strength of the Democratic Party in the South and events that precipitated the dissipation of the…
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pLogo DNA Sequencing: An Infovis Review
Posted on Tumblr today on infovis658: pLogo is a visualization method developed at the University of Connecticut and Harvard University Medical School to study DNA and protein sequences. The team published an interactive version at http://plogo.uconn.edu so scientists can analyze their own data. The pLogo methodology was published in Nature Methods on October 6 and reported…
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Oct 25 – Harnessing the Spatial Data Explosion
We live in a world where vast troves of new information are being captured every day: smartphones double as data collection devices; social media applications aggregate geographically encoded mood swings; collectively tagged photos lead to new spatial data; global volunteers charting unmapped cities in the face of disasters or create new historical climate models from…