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by bowea324
Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:42 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 12.12 Final Project Description
Replies: 11
Views: 50443

Re: 12.12 Final Project Description

Libraries and Democracy This project explores library-based data in order to show the inherent connection between public libraries, data analysis, and democratic process. Here I develop a typology for understand libraries and democracy: (1) Access to Information: The library as a space of reference ...
by bowea324
Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:43 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 11.21 Status of Work-in-Progress
Replies: 9
Views: 20020

Re: 11.21 Status of Work-in-Progress

First, in order to investigate political research in mass culture, I located the political texts that were most important or most popular during the 2008 election cycle. I narrowed my search to only include texts from the Federal Presidential Election, hoping to draw conclusions on the use of librar...
by bowea324
Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:08 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.24 Share some Code
Replies: 12
Views: 22279

Re: 10.24 Share some Code

Here, I compare 'political' texts to 'revolutionary' texts checked out during the twelve month cycle during 2007. I added a bit of a propagandistic tint to the color, and a transparency to each of the layered bar graphs so that if one of the layers was beneath one another at any time, it would remai...
by bowea324
Fri Nov 18, 2011 1:06 pm
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 11.21 Status of Work-in-Progress
Replies: 9
Views: 20020

Re: 11.21 Status of Work-in-Progress

I plugged my idea of looking for trends in political texts prior to the 2008 election cycle into part of the visualization code from last week and the results were definitely of the 'interesting sort'. From 2005- 2008 it is easily recognizable that there is a growing trend in political texts checked...
by bowea324
Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:58 pm
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.10 Cultural Analytics Review + Sketch
Replies: 12
Views: 21783

Re: 10.10 Cultural Analytics Review + Sketch

Review of Lev Manovich’s Cultural Analytics: It seems that the vast majority of data driven interpretations of the ‘field of humanities’ explore the most reductionary elements of humanities data: words. Perhaps this is because with the rise of organizational software the only mode of interpretation ...
by bowea324
Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:40 pm
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.24 Share some Code
Replies: 12
Views: 22279

Re: 10.24 Share some Code

import de.bezier.data.sql.*; MySQL msql; void setup() { size( 600, 600 ); background(255); String user = "mat259"; String pass = "V1sual1zat1on"; /*String [] monthLables = new String[12]; monthLables[0] = "Jan"; monthLables[1] = "Feb"; monthLables[2] = "Mar"; monthLables[3] = "Apr"; monthLables[4] =...
by bowea324
Mon Nov 14, 2011 11:27 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 11.14 Post your Project Schedule here
Replies: 9
Views: 21703

Re: 11.14 Post your Project Schedule here

Libraries and Democracy: Political Research During Election Cycles Andrew Jay Bowe This project will look towards Seattle Public Library data during the 2007-2008 Federal and Local election cycle to determine whether or not library patrons are using library resources for the purpose of political res...
by bowea324
Mon Nov 07, 2011 11:39 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 11.07 Your Final Project Proposal Presentation
Replies: 11
Views: 19522

Re: 11.07 Your Presentation

Presentation: I am going to investigate the use of library resources for political research during elections. This involves mapping resources that relate to political ideology and political current events. (Or) I am going look at the layers of a film and abstract the data of a film to develop a gene...
by bowea324
Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:55 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.10 Cultural Analytics Review + Sketch
Replies: 12
Views: 21783

Re: 10.10 Cultural Analytics Review + Sketch

Andrew Jay Bowe 10.10.11 Here, I would like to suggest that Manovich's belief in a data-stat-visual movement in the Humanities is highly under developed and lacks a real pragmatic grounding for the field. As Manovich asserts, "In Digital Humanities, people are doing statistical analysis of historica...
by bowea324
Sun Oct 09, 2011 7:29 pm
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.5 MySQL Project & Analysis, due Wed Oct 5
Replies: 12
Views: 24950

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Andrew Jay Bowe 10.05.2011 Visualizing Data The Tortoise and the Hare: Brainstorm an Ontological/Virtual Mapping Project Question: I hope to look at how the concept of speed and movement can be visualized by library data. Knowledge is constantly moving, yet without geographic space, how can one unde...