Media Arts and Technology

Final Project: Clustering & Dimensionality Reduction Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction are 2 effective approaches used in data analysis. Clustering is often used to see if there’s any grouping pattern in the data, while dimensionality reduction are helpful in visualizing high-dimesional data. ...

Random Sampling is a method to estimate characteristics of the whole population by sample a subset within the whole population randomly. For this week‘s assignment, I am interested in questions below: * By using random sampling technique, I try to find if there is any pattern within the sampled data...

For this week‘s assignment, I try to find outliers of different kinds. * Using standard deviation of checkout times to find the most popular and unpopular items within CD category * Using both purchase number and checkout times as the indicator of popularity, applying algorithms find out the outlier...

In this weeks report, I use commands about JSON operations, bit operations, String functions to find out some interesting titles and some numerical patterns.

Frequency-pattern related algorithm is used as an analytical process that finds frequent patterns or associations from data sets. For example, grocery store transaction data might have a frequent pattern that people usually buy chips and beer together. With this tool, I would like to check if there’...

During past decades, numerous data storage devices appeared and dominated the market at some timestamp. For example, the VHS format, developed by JVC, is released in 1976, and in 2016, no one would make VHS products since there are much more advanced storage devices (DVD, Blu-Ray etc.). Instead of u...

A report focused on two topics: SPL hotspot devices and 2019 No Late Fee Policy Thinking on adding one topic more: about the legacy items. Here's the of the report: (Revised as of 10.17) Assignment 02_revised.pdf Topic 01 results: SPL_overview.csv Hotspot_devices_type.csv models_over_years.csv Topic...

Codes and analysis are in this PDF Assignment 01 Shaokang.pdf 1.Find the single longest and shortest borrow time 2.What’s the number of books of different dewey classes (Items of same bibNumber count once) ? 3.What’s the number of items of different dewey classes (Items of same bibNumber count multi...