Media Arts and Technology

final_rev_ss1.png UPDATE! For the update, the main change was the introduction of the most frequently used keywords as a starry background. Stopwords were removed and keywords are drawn from a distribution based on the contents of the posts. I also added features to sort all posts/subreddits by sen...

Tantalizing Clusters of Controversy UPDATED For this phase of the project, I shelved the controversy score used previously and decided to use an unsupervised learning technique to determine if checkout behavior could indicate controversial - and therefore interesting - books. Unfortunately, it look...

A Controversial Treemap UPDATE! final_rev_ss1.png final_rev_ss2.png Additional treemap configurations are now available. Clicking the 'Strip' button multiple times will actually result in different strip layouts each time. Additionally, this project has been accelerated with OpenGL, with the same t...

Seattle Library's Most Controversial The visualizations below show the controversy score calculated on each item, binned by subject and popularity. Since the data is somewhat sparse, the graphs also indirectly communicate the distribution of popular items by subject (blackspace indicates a lack of ...

Seattle Library's Most Controversial: Mainstream is boring! Is it possible to use the information in the library database to determine which items are the most controversial? Can we implicitly discover which books or DVDs are strongly loved by few, but detested by many? Is it possible to discover s...