Media Arts and Technology

"How 11 Year Olds Get Girls" or Advice in Times of the Internet For my project, I will not work with the New York Times API but create a visualization of the correlation of the Seattle Public Library data with a quite interesting historical data source I came across. Concept In 1998, in an effort t...

It's The Economy, Stupid! - 3D Visualization Like the previous versions of my project, the visualization shows the possible effects of the 2007-2008 financial crisis on the choice of books borrowed by the patrons of the Seattle public library system. I examine four keywords and map their prevalence...

It's The Economy, Stupid! - Relative Visualization For this assignment, I updated the query to work with spl3 and thus include the years 2013 and 2014. The added data lets the results from previous versions stand out even clearer. To make the resulting matrix reorderable, I first revised the code t...

It's The Economy, Stupid! - Relative Visualization --- Edit --- Thank you all for the feedback in class. I changed the sketch to include an outline that appears if the cursor is within a cell's boundaries to make it more apparent that my visualization is indeed a 2D matrix. Also I should have made ...

It's The Economy, Stupid! Eventually leading into the great recession that still shapes our economy today, the 2007-2008 financial crisis was the macroeconomic event of the first decade of the 21st century. For this first assignment, I am looking at possible effects of this historic bust on the cho...