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by matthew
Tue Dec 20, 2011 12:51 pm
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 12.12 Final Project Description
Replies: 11
Views: 50453

Re: 12.12 Final Project Description

Bankruptcy by the Books: Visualizing Bankruptcy at the Seattle Public Library Between 2005 and 2010, use of the Seattle Public Library and guide books on personal law and bankruptcy reflect the financial instability and crisis throughout the United States. seattle-2008.jpg seattle-how-to-file.jpg th...
by matthew
Mon Dec 05, 2011 11:58 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: Visualizing Data with D3.js
Replies: 1
Views: 6511

raphaeljs.com

Also see http://raphaeljs.com/
Great javascript library for drawing and animating vectors.
by matthew
Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:39 pm
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 11.07 Your Final Project Proposal Presentation
Replies: 11
Views: 19522

Bankruptcy Final Project Proposal Presentation

Final approach to visualizing bankruptcy at seattle library:
google doc presentation
by matthew
Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:37 pm
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 11.14 Post your Project Schedule here
Replies: 9
Views: 21704

bankruptcy

Description: This project explores the financial crisis and how it impacted people's use of the Seattle public library between 2005 and 2010. In particular, the data visualization explores personal law guides that address bankruptcy. Nov 14 - Timeline Nov 21- Illustrator Mockup & mySQL > variables >...
by matthew
Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:18 pm
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.24 Share some Code
Replies: 12
Views: 22279

stack books and hover for titles

/* Here is the full code. It grabs the titles for each year for a specific dewey number. It creates a stack of blocks to represent each title for each year. Hovering over the block shows the title. */ // init mySQL import de.bezier.data.sql.*; MySQL msql; boolean useDB = true; // init variables int ...
by matthew
Mon Oct 31, 2011 12:05 pm
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.24 Share some Code
Replies: 12
Views: 22279

stacking colored blocks based on quantity

Here is some code that will create a series of stacked blocks based on a count of books you get from mySQL. It changes the color of each block so that the quantity becomes highlighted. I've stripped out the mySQL and other elements so it is easier to follow. // init variables int colorS, colorB, col...
by matthew
Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:21 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.10 Cultural Analytics Review + Sketch
Replies: 12
Views: 21787

Sketches

Here's a link to sketches of how I might visualize the data.
google doc with sketches
by matthew
Fri Oct 07, 2011 12:46 pm
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 10.5 MySQL Project & Analysis, due Wed Oct 5
Replies: 12
Views: 24950

Data Mining a Financial Crisis

Data Mining project description and spreadsheet of mySQL results.
by matthew
Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:54 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 9.26 Data Mining/MySQL Ideas + Google Reviews here
Replies: 14
Views: 22485

Data Mining/MySQL Ideas

The stock market crash and the housing crisis impacted millions of lives in a fundamental way. The library should serve as a clear litmus of how our lives were altered, emotionally and functionally. I am curious about how this crisis shifted people's use of the library across two dimensions: subject...
by matthew
Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:24 am
Forum: NMDS 551
Topic: 9.26 Data Mining/MySQL Ideas + Google Reviews here
Replies: 14
Views: 22485

500 billion words

Google’s digital storehouse offers a tremendous pool of data for research. Because of copyright issues, the words and phrases in their database have been severed from their books of origin. In isolation, the words carry a new, puzzling meaning. While they are not random, they are extremely decontext...