Media Arts and Technology

In this project I made a visualization of lightning strike data from 2012 over a map of the US on a globe. This project used a shapefile library to import data from a shapefile, a format used in cartography. This allowed me to show a map of the states of the US, and I was able to transfer that to th...

In this project I show a bar chart of checkout information for a given item type (book or video), grouped by day of the week & week of the year. I also compare this data to similar data from previous years. Here is a method I found online to make text face the screen: // At the top of the file, for ...

My project uses heat maps to compare checkout activity over the course of a week of books and dvds in 2006 and 2016.

I was interested in finding items with a sustained, consistent level of popularity or monthly checkouts. A trendy item might be a 'flash in the pan,' but I was interested in identifying items which, by contrast, have at least some popularity, but which have a low variance in their number of monthly ...