Media Arts and Technology

Abstract: An exploration of what constitutes a successful data visualization through the compare and contrast of four visualizations. Data visualization is described as the study of the visual representation of abstract data. Data visualizations can be successful or unsuccessful in relating the abs...

I have decided to create language visualizations from other forms of technology, primarily twitter, and compare them to the SMS visualizations I did. I want to compare the visualizations in order to draw conclusions about how different technologies affect the language we choose to use, the shortenin...

Language Visualizations (working title) I plan to visualize different language data sets (SMS, twitter, etc) in order to draw conclusions about how different technologies affect the language we use. November 14 - 3-4 years of SMSs downloaded from iphone, visualized using Many Eyes. November 21 - fin...

This code adds books checked out with the word TEA, as well as some colors import de.bezier.data.sql.*; MySQL msql; void setup() { size( 900, 800 ); colorMode(RGB); background(230); PFont font; String s = "COFFEE"; fill(0); textSize(18); text(s, 15, height-720, 70, 70); text("TEA", 15, height-120, 7...

Beth Carlson:
I am going to explore the effects of technology on language and culture using visualizations of text messages.

Link to presentation:
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id ... 3&hl=en_US

Data sketches: http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/users/bbcarlsonn#contributions The data in these sketches represents the amounts of item types checked out during the month of October of each year. I am attempting to show older technologies like video and tapes are in decline, whi...

QUESTION: Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, were more materials checked out relating to petroleum, marine life, the environment, etc? When a disaster such as this occurs, do people look to similar disasters from the past in order to understand? QUERY: select * from transactions2010 ...

500 Billion Words The google ngrams project is at the heart of why I took this data visualization class. As a theory-based student, it is extremely interesting and helpful to be able to apply the information from a large data set to dissecting and understanding cultural patterns. As Patricia Cohen w...

Schneiderman In The Eyes Have It, Ben Schneiderman discusses seven different data types: one dimensional, two dimensional, three dimensional, temporal, multi dimensional, tree, and network. It is important to understand the user, and what one wants to extract from the data set, in order to choose th...