Media Arts and Technology

Reflection 2: Google’s Ngram Viewer, Window on Culture? The power of publicly available data sets is indisputably plain when we consider those agencies that do not make their data readily available. A quick search for “data sets homeland security” and the best you might find are spreadsheets summari...

Here's what you do: Note: I've updated the query to exclude checkouts prior to 2006. 1. Run query 2. a) In HeidiSQL, right click the results and click "Export grid data to file". b) in Sequel Pro click on the sprocket icon below the results pane and select "export results". 3. Save as a csv file. 4....

Here are a few SQL scripts I was playing with before today's class [access it here]. Look under the "Correlate" tab for scripts to feed Google Correlate.

There is an assumption that I would like to discuss in Ben Shneiderman proposition of a task based classification system in the paper, “The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations.” The proposition implies that a clear perception of information visualization comes w...