Introduction This network contains the collaboration of 40 composers of film scores and the 62 producers who produced a minimum of five movies in Hollywood, 1964-1976. This is a 2-mode network: a line between a composer and a producer indicates that the former created the soundtrack for the movie produced by the latter. The line……

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Introduction Nowadays, we live in an era of advanced science and technology, but at the same time, more and more complex diseases are emerging. When I was a little girl, some of my family members died for different cancer at their young age. They all were practitioners with professional medical backgrounds but still suffered from……

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Introduction Friendship or personal relationship ties make up many of the networks that we are a part of or can observe. These relationships not only tell us about individual’s closeness to or support of one another, but can also tell us about the sociocultural/historical/economic context at the time, as well as effects of gender, race,……

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This is a network among the registered players in FIFA 2019, a well-known video game of soccer, with the nodes as players, and the edges as the shared skillset. In this network, the players have more similar skill set will have a stronger connection. The post Human grouping vs clustering, taking FIFA 2019 soccer player…

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Introduction For this week’s lab, I used a dataset that included the most commonly used nouns and adjectives from Charles Dickens’ novel, David Copperfield. Some of the questions I wanted to ask were: What are the common words used in this novel? Are there common words that could be closely connected to the themes of……

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Introduction As a history graduate, I have always been extremely interested in how our past shapes and informs our present social, political, economic and cultural contexts. A large part of understanding history and applying it to the present comes from understanding relationships between state and non-state actors; in other words, networks. As relationships are critical……

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This semester I have been exploring various aspects of public health information as data visualizations.  I was interested in finding a dataset to use to explore network data with Gephi, open source software that allows you to create various network visualizations with datasets.  In my search I came across this dataset on the website SocioPatterns,……

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BACKGROUND: Primary school is an important stage in child development. The brain develops rapidly in the early years of childhood, and primary school plays a crucial role of nurturing the mind. Primary school is a place where young children not only learn to read and write, but also interact and get along with one another.……

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Every four years we watch the most athletic people of the world compete in different disciplines to see who can win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. Every time it is an exciting and emotional event. But for this project I don’t want to only focus on a single year of Olympics. I want……

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Pubic health is highly dependent on maps as the locations of health conditions can provide insight into their causes. This is particularly true of infectious diseases, as was evidenced in the landmark London Cholera outbreak map from 1854 by Dr. John Snow that allowed him to discover the source of the outbreak at several water……

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Introduction New York City has a very complex social construction. So the social contradictions may happen in many locations in NYC. Citizen’s Complaints reflect this situation. The rate of complaints may happen in certain locations. This visualization work shows the distribution of complaint amounts in NYC and the NYC subway entry locations. By viewing my……

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Introduction Since moving to New York last year, I have been pleasantly surprised by the amount of community-based initiatives I have seen throughout the city. Not only are these initiatives valued, common and often broadcast, but they are also consistent across the boroughs. Having lived in other large metropolitan cities, I found this stark difference……

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Introduction As a person who born in a tropical area often loves outdoor activities as well. When I moved to New York City last year, I found that this city has a lot more skyscrapers but less natural environment compared with my hometown, Taipei. For me, It is hard to tolerate living in a city……

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Introduction With the rise of Tesla, alternative fuel vehicles have been drawing so much attention and become one of the most significant symbols of technology. Although there is still controversy about alternative fuel vehicles, it’s already changing our ways of life. In 2018, there were 203 new AFV (alternative fuel vehicles) and HEV (hybrid electric……

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