NetworkS In Middle Earth

July 7, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction Digital humanities has brought on a wave of network analyses of popular books and movies. When applied to fiction, this can show fans how the characters they love connect and cluster together. I decided to visualize characters in the Lord of the Rings, one of my favorite bodies of work, using data from the……

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A Network Analysis of Human Diseases

July 6, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction For the network analysis lab, I chose to focus on a network of human diseases and gene types. I wanted to not only explore the visualization but also to discover specific gene types and their relationship to diseases. I also wanted to understand the links between neurological diseases because many of my relatives were……

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A Network Analysis of Stack Overflow Tags

July 5, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction Stack Overflow is an online community where users can learn coding and share their knowledge through the question and answer format of the website. In addition to troubleshooting problems, Stack Overflow also serves as a career resource where users can find job opportunities. One unique career feature from the site is its “Developer Stories,”……

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Interactions of Primary School Children

July 4, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction For this project I explored the social interactions between primary school children and their peers.  After reading over the findings from “High-Resolution Measurements of Face-to-Face Contact Patterns in a Primary School”. I wanted to see how students interact with peers outside of their grade level.  For example, how many interactions does a first grader have with……

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Zachary’s karate club

July 3, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction Zachary’s karate club is one of many examples as it relates to social relationships within a  small group or organization. This Karate club as a range of social affair activities apart from its regular scheduled karate lessons such as (parties, dances, banquets, etc.). The Club was very informal when it comes to decision making.……

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Social Circles in the Twitter-Verse

July 2, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction Social networks have become increasingly popular in the past decade. Mobile applications and websites such as Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook are becoming the primary means of communication for both individuals and businesses alike. But what can these social networks tell us about our communication patterns and social structures? By analyzing network data, we can……

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Internet Usage by Country 2000-2017

June 25, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction Internet use has exploded in the past few decades in practically every country around the world. Internet use can sometimes be used as a metric for measuring a country’s economic, social, and/or technological advancement. Higher internet use means greater social connectivity, allows for the expansion of commercial markets, and often leads to new technologies.……

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Trends in Global Democracy

June 25, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction As the United States moves through the 2020 election season, recent actions by the Trump administration have left many asking whether the country is becoming less democratic. This is a difficult question, and it is not immediately obvious how to measure something as amorphous as “democracy”. But history shows us that the level of……

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Seven Major Felony IN New york city

June 24, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction This project will highlight the rates of Seven Major Felony in New York City between  2019 and 2020. I will focus on changes in the violent Offense rate during this period.  I will present visually,  the decrease and or increase in violent Offense rate in these selected eight areas of criminal Offenses (Assault, burglary, felony,  rape, robbery,……

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analyzing NYC Building footprints data in tableau

June 23, 2020 / 0 comments

Yisha Su Introduction Building footprints represent the full perimeter outline of each building as viewed from directly above. As an urban planner, I have been dealing with building footprints and shapefiles to create maps in Geographic Information System(GIS). This time I was curious about what insights I can get from analyzing the data of Building……

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How much toilet paper do we use

June 23, 2020 / 0 comments

INTRODUCTION Toilet paper seems to be a very common household consumer product, and we use it every single day without valuing its importance. Recent COVID-19 pandemics had led a panic buy in toilet paper across the globe. Back in China 30 years ago, we didn’t have access to any toilet paper, but today is an……

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Brooklyn 311 Complaints During COVID-19

June 23, 2020 / 0 comments

INTRODUCTION NYC311 is a resource for the public to submit service requests and complaints about issues such as street repairs, noise complaints, unsafe building conditions, etc. These complaints are submitted by phone or web and then routed to the appropriate city agency by the service. For this project, I was interested in exploring what 311……

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The NYPD and Summonses for Victimless Crimes

June 23, 2020 / 0 comments

Tableau Public Lab Report by Kyle Palermo, June 23, 2020. Background Criminal summonses are one of four primary enforcement actions at the NYPD’s disposal (in addition to what happens off-the-books or results in death). Rather than protecting life or property, a plurality of these summonses are issued for marijuana possession or various alcohol consumption offenses……

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D.C. Marijuana Arrest Rates 2017-2017

June 23, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction In the District of Columbia (DC) the laws related to the recreational use and possession of marijuana changed at the effective dates of two major milestones: Marijuana Possession Decriminalization Amendment Act in 2014 and Initiative 71 in 2015, a voter-passed ballot measure to legalize the possession, recreational use, and transfer of up to one……

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Development Projects in the Asia-Pacific Region

June 22, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank with a mission to “achieve a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.” ADB was established in 1966 and includes 68 member countries in the Asia-Pacific region in addition to Europe and the Americas.……

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NYPD Arrests for the period of Jan – Mar 2020

June 21, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction For this assignment, I used statistical visualizations to understand NYPD arrest data in New York City. I chose to focus on this assignment to understand specifically the nature of NYPD’s law enforcement and how they classify their perpetrators as well as the descriptions of crimes committed. While engaging with the dataset, I chose to……

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New York City Evictions

June 18, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction This project aims to find patterns from the evictions that occur across the five boroughs of New York City as well as the change in eviction numbers as new tenant laws are passed and the COVID-19 pandemic changed the city. Evictions can occur for numerous reasons like failure to pay, breaking community rules or……

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towards the Republic

June 10, 2020 / 0 comments

INTRODUCTION Between the late 19th century and early 20th century, China experienced a series of dynamic changes that led to the full collapsation of the Qing dynasty, and the founding of the Republic of China. Internal corruption and external wars had devoured the huge empire. In these turbulent decades, rulers, gentry, farmers, and scholars all……

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The History of News Graphics

June 9, 2020 / 0 comments

Introduction I have been interested in data journalism for a few years now. But while I have seen many graphics in publications like the New York Times and FiveThirtyEight, I know relatively little about how graphics were used in media before the 2010s, and so I chose to focus my lab on the history of……

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A Brief history of isotype

June 9, 2020 / 0 comments

INTRODUCTION ISOTYPE (International System of TYpographic Picture Education) was developed in 1924 as a universal picture language with the purpose of educating the public on social statistics in charts using multiples of same-size icons to represent quantitative information (as opposed to bar or line graphs). Otto Neurath, Austrian social scientist, economist, philosopher, and theorist behind……

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