Media Arts and Technology

Natural Rejection (title pending) -work in progress- For this project I will attempt to visualize a tree of extinct species. I am primarily interested in exploring interesting and uncommon visualization techniques. One thing I wanted to avoid was data reflecting "frequency" of something as I've use...

Into The Wild: 3D Comparison of Seattle's Interests in Fiction and Non-fiction For this project, I was curious what the most popular titles in the Seattle Public Library were, and how the check out behavior of those titles changed over time. In performing the MySQL queries, it became apparent that ...

Urban Agriculture in Seattle with Polar Area Diagram For this assignment I used the same CSV data as my 2d matrix to create a polar area diagram of each month, with controls to change the date and turn on or off Dewey categories. Hovering over a section of the diagram reveals the number of items ch...

Urban Agriculture in Seattle Seattle is home to a widespread community garden program. I was curious if any patterns could be discerned from Seattle Public Library checkout habits within the Dewey class 630: Agriculture. MySQL was used to query each Dewey number, from 630 to 631, accumulating the n...

Urban Agriculture Seattle is home the P-Patch Community Garden Program, an unusually successful urban agriculture organization that manages 85 gardens and 2850 plots. Established in 1973, the program continues to expand, growing food on 14.9 acres and donating over 28,000 pounds of produce annually...