Introduction Opened in 1904, the New York City subway is one of the world’s oldest and most complex transit systems. Designers and cartographers have publicly fought over how best to present the tangled network of underground and elevated lines (see The Great Subway Map War of 1978). Throughout the century, the subway map underwent various…

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Introduction Infographics, a term created by clipping and compounding the words ‘Information’ and ‘Graphics’, are visual or graphic representations of information which allow clear and swift communication. They leverage human beings’ visual system’s ability to identify patterns and trends. Creating infographics is not a new technique in any way, as the earliest storytellers were the…

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Timeline link: https://goo.gl/TBDJuy Introduction Maps, the subsection of visualization types, are powerful and intuitive for people to look at spatial patterns and geographic data. There are many variations on map types and each variation has its own strengths. For this project, I would like to see how maps could help to communicate the information of the geographical…

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INTRODUCTION: Python is a programming language that has continually increased in popularity and use since its conception in the late 1980s.  It puts emphasis on code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than other languages that were available at the time.  Its large and comprehensive standard library,…

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Introduction Checking the weather forecast has become engrained our daily routine. We have become accustomed to accurate predictions of what temperature and weather to expect each day. The ability to know what the weather has not always been an easy access information. To know and be able to predict the weather has come a long…

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Introduction I learnt Gantt Chart for a couple of times. First from Economic and Management class, then from Engineering management class. Gantt Chart plays a crucial part in efficiency, based on a combination of clear classification and evolving progress display. Moreover, Gantt Chart comes first when it comes to visualization. This leads to this short…

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Image credit for Skystar Digital Introduction: Since the invention of computer, there is a long history of interaction experience between human beings and computers. In order to make the human-computer interaction process more direct, simple, accurate, smooth, enjoyable, we have invented entirely different types of user interface. From the rudimentary non-interactive batch interface to the…

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Introduction GIS, short for geographic information systems, is a system that was designed to better understand geographic data. With the help of GIS applications, users are aided in analyzing spatial information, creating searches for data, and interpenetrating maps with slightly more ease. While it would seem obvious that a lot of the emergence of this…

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    Introduction: Chord diagram is a relatively new form of information visualizations. It is a type of diagram that visualizes the inter-relationships between entities. The connections between entities are used to display that they share something in common. This makes Chord Diagrams ideal for comparing the similarities within a dataset or between different groups…

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History of Thematic Mapping: A Timeline   Introduction For this lab report I chose to focus on study the milestones in the history of Thematic Mapping. I was particular interested in this part of information visualization because the understanding of “location intelligence and its applications” across the public has grown a lot, and thematic maps…

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  Introduction We live in an age of data visualization where the Internet has been flooded with graphics containing useful information, be it the literacy rate of different countries or websites showcasing the change in the climate. Every single useful information on the web is being converted into images and graphics. But this isn’t the…

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Introduction Photography is an art of creating images. I have always wondered how photography was molded to its current digital age. People today have smartphones to take quick pictures of anything and everything. This never existed back in the 18th century and it’s amazing how photography evolved over time: from first ever cameras and images…

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Introduction For this lab report I chose to focus on the important historical events related to the creation of the modern day scatterplot. I was interested in this data visualization specifically, because it is one that I encounter frequently in my academic career. Most of the research studies that employ statistics often use scatterplots to…

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[Figure 1: Title slide of Timeline JS project] Introduction Demography, or the study of quantitative data about characteristics of human populations, has been a field of study since ancient, pre-Roman times. The analysis of population data can tell us a great deal about changes like migration patterns, overpopulation risks, fertility rates, and more. This data…

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Open-source software has become a counter to corporate forces that institute consumer-negative practices (such as Apple’s walled garden) in an effort to raise profits for shareholders. As open-source software, tools, and other technologies rise in popularity and ease of use, it’s important to understand how open-source arrived at it’s current place, and why. This timeline,…

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As the United States collectively wades through a very unstable political era, access to data that helps inform constituents and increase civic engagement in communities is more important than ever. Using an open source JS Timeline from Knight Lab at Northwestern University, I’ve provided a brief history of NYC’s Open Data Law and the city’s…

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Watercolors at the Metropolitan Museum of Art This final visualization presents the watercolors that are held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While the Met’s open dataset contains 467,665 items, the disarray of the records made it impossible to capture this breadth of information in such a condensed amount of time. I had originally hoped…

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