Media Arts and Technology

Exploratory data visualization to investigate bar code anomalies (Revised on 3/13/2014) Project Description: For the final project, I return to the subject of my first project: bar code anomalies. The barcode field only appears in two tables of the spl2 database: inraw and outraw. Tables derived fr...

Project 3: Correlation of two data sets (final) Concept The word “olympic”, like many words, can have multiple meanings. Natural language processing techniques such as sentiment analysis attempt to infer—through computation—meaning from text, but these techniques are complex to understand and apply...

Project 2: 2D spatial map (revised) In our data set a handful of library items—technically, item numbers—are associated with more than one bar code. As of this writing, 26,901 item numbers fall into this category, or about 0.8% of the total unique itemNumbers in the spl2 database. These are anomali...

How do the item number and bar code relate to physical resources at the Seattle Public Library? The barcode field only appears in two tables of the spl2 database: inraw and outraw . Tables derived from these (e.g. activity , callnum , collection ) include the item number but not the bar code as colu...