Media Arts and Technology

Concept This project exploits the semantics of graduate student research by classifying theses and publications into research topics, based on their free-text descriptions. This visualization provides an alternative view of research trajectories at UCSB; rather than siloing graduate research by dep...

Concept This is a visualization of all reference books checked out from the Seattle Public Library since 2005. Library patrons often borrow reference books to learn new skills, so these checkouts serve as a suitable proxy for better understanding what people are teaching themselves , when they are ...

Concept The relationship between book checkouts over time are shown relative to their popularities over the course of a decade. An increasing number of books checked out, pertaining to each programming language, translates to an increasing popularity of the programming language. The three variables...

How have the relative popularities of programming languages shifted over a decade? Patrons may turn to the library for resources to assist in acquiring new skills, such as mastering new programming languages. In the midst of a financial crisis in mid-2008 and a growing tech boom in the Pacific Nort...

Question 1: What are the titles and subjects of the library items about California Geography? SELECT spl_2016.title.bibNumber, spl_2016.title.title, spl_2016.subject.subject, spl_2016.deweyClass.deweyClass FROM (spl_2016.subject INNER JOIN spl_2016.title ON spl_2016.subject.bibNumber= spl_2016.titl...