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by rileb685
Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:31 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 12.12 Final Project Description
Replies: 11
Views: 50428

Re: 12.12 Final Project Description

That's Ancient History: Antiquity in the Popular Imagination A series of visualizations of data collected from an informal survey of tumblr.com users on ancient history. My initial plan for the final project was to use the SPL database for something, since it was such a rich, detailed, and readily ...
by rileb685
Mon Nov 21, 2011 12:02 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've fallen slightly behind schedule-- I had hoped to have my SQL queries in Processing by now, but I'm still working on refining them in Sequel Pro. Once I have a full set of useful queries, bringing them into Processing will be very simple (the tricky thing after that is visualizing those queries ...
by rileb685
Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:49 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.10 Cultural Analytics Review + Sketch
Replies: 12
Views: 21781

Re: 10.10 Cultural Analytics Review + Sketch

Manovich Review: Manovich's discussion of visualizing the ebb and flow of information on the web in real time actually dovetails fairly interestingly with some of the ongoing conversation in my thesis section about just how much of our lives, and the information about them, is archived semi-permanen...
by rileb685
Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:56 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.5 MySQL Project & Analysis, due Wed Oct 5
Replies: 12
Views: 24946

Re: 3. Wk 4. MySQL Project & Analysis, due Wed Oct 5

When playing around with Google ngrams, I decided to see if there were any notable trends over time in how historical figures are perceived. At one point, I plugged in the names of Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty: the immediate successsors of Augustus Caesar: Tiberius, Caligula, Claudiu...
by rileb685
Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:05 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 9.26 Data Mining/MySQL Ideas + Google Reviews here
Replies: 14
Views: 22473

Re: 2. Wk 3. Data Mining/MySQL Ideas + Google Reviews here

Google NGram: Of all of the data tools we've looked at so far, I'm by far most fascinated by the Google NGram. Since the themes I'm exploring for my thesis involve the way that history is as mucha product the present as it is a record of what actually happened in the past, I was particularly interes...
by rileb685
Mon Sep 26, 2011 10:54 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 9.19 Respond To Kosara Schneiderman Fry Here
Replies: 11
Views: 20212

Re: 1. Respond To Kosara Schneiderman Fry Here

A key point I took away from Ben Schneiderman's "The Eyes Have It" is that data visualization's priorities are very similar to those of design in general. This is, perhaps, not a terribly stunning revelation, since data visualization, like the rest of design, is all about creating an effective and c...