Media Arts and Technology

For the final project, I decided to use the Human Development Index data. The United Nations Development Program provides some APIs (http://hdr.undp.org/en/data/api) to query the dataset. There are altogether 187 countries and regions and hdi across 9 years. Originally, I wanted to map these countri...

Mapping Your Book Publishers As a student in the geography department, I'm more interested in the geo aspect of the dataset. Unfortunately, there aren't any geo information in the spl database. The only one that is geo related is the publishers of the books. So my project is to geolocate the publis...

Based on the csv file, I used a python code to sort the data by row, that is I sort the value in each of the second level dewey categories, the dewey classes that do not exist or are no longer in use are color coded in dark gray. You can click on the "sort" button to switch between sorted visualizat...

In my previous project, I used SQL to retrieve the average and standard deviation of checkout duration from 2006 to 2014. The results show that each of the 10 dewey classes has its distinct checkout duration pattern and the difference among these classes implies some interesting phenomenon. But the ...

People borrow books for different reasons, some of them wish to read the best­selling novels, others wish to learn programming skills. In other words, people have their personal preference for certain kinds of books. The specific reading interests may influence the checkout duration. It would be int...