Geovisualization: Mapping NYC’s Projected Population in 2010–2040

July 25, 2018 / 0 comments

Introduction I decided to take another look at the summary of NYC’s projected population over 2010–2040 by the Department of City Planning. This rich dataset adds categorization to population statistics by age groups and boroughs of NYC. Besides including totals, the summary sorts the population information into categories of age groups (18 age groups between the…

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NYC School Safety Report – 2010 – 2017

July 24, 2018 / 0 comments

This research started with a simple question; I wanted to understand if there was a correlation between school violence, (such as robbery, assault, etc.) plus the violence of regions around schools with the amount of extra-curricular activities that those kids have. In other words, I want to understand if kids have more stuff to do…

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Wildfire Risk Zones Throughout California

July 24, 2018 / 0 comments

Introduction Depending on rain levels each year, fire season in California has the ability to ravage certain areas, stretching from backcountry to populated areas. Wildfires are expected; they clear away dead vegetation and weak trees creating space and opportunity for new and stronger growth. At the same time, if uncontrolled, they have the potential to…

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The Price of Freedom: Gun Violence and Children

July 24, 2018 / 0 comments

Introduction “This is the price of freedom.  Violent nuts are allowed to roam free until they do damage, no matter how threatening they are.” A quote from Bill O’Reilly’s Blog, No Spin News, regarding the mass murder in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay hotel in the Fall of 2017.  This quote, unfortunately, clearly states that…

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Cultural and Mardi Gras Maps of New Orleans

July 24, 2018 / 0 comments

Introduction New Orleans—a city located in the Deep South nestled in a crescent bend in the Mississippi River—has a rich cultural history. Despite sub-tropical climate, and the guarantee of biblical weather, it remains a place of resiliency, love, and hope. Indeed, New Orleans is my hometown and, although a New Yorker now, I am forever…

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Mapping the New York School Crime Rates

July 24, 2018 / 0 comments

Introduction Not only the Tableau Public, Is there any other tools can analyze data by mapping? 3 Inspirations https://carto.com/gallery/internet-standards/ https://carto.com/gallery/stolen-cars/ https://carto.com/gallery/lifewatch-inbo/Process Carto is a complexed tool, which requested the designer has to have clear thoughts about putting data in order. The process of refining the data is more complicated than others. I download the data from the…

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Museums in NYC

July 23, 2018 / 0 comments

The topic of this information visualization mapping lab are the museum’s in New York City’s five boroughs in comparison with the average median household incomes for the different neighborhoods in said boroughs. I hope to analyze the relationship between these two subjects in the city. As museums in this country do not wholly depend upon…

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Bigfoot Nation: An exploration of Bigfoot legend in the American wilds

July 20, 2018 / 0 comments

“Bigfoot” is a cornerstone of North American folklore dating back 400 years to Native American myth. This creature is described as a 6- to 9-foot bipedal man-beast, sometimes completely covered in black, brown, or burnt red hair and always described as having very large feet. Despite claims by the scientific community that Bigfoot is nothing…

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What drives users to delve deeper into The Met’s vast online collection?

July 20, 2018 / 0 comments

Reported by students at the Pratt School of Information. Chinos Maduagwu, Jamie Raymond, Jill Hackett, Xiaxin Chen. This project was done as part of the course: Usability: Theory and Practice. Located in Central Park, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City houses art from around the world spanning over 5,000 years. The museum…

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A Deep Dive into The Met’s Collection Information Digital Work System

July 20, 2018 / 0 comments

Interview with Jennie Choi, Manager of Collection Information at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Public Domain Artworks from the online collection of The Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as the largest art museum in the United States, has 100 curators and 1.5 million artworks in their permanent collection. The Digital department, founded in 2008, has three…

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Is a Digital Strategy the answer to all your digital problems?

July 20, 2018 / 0 comments

The first day of our Digital Strategy class, we were asked by the professor, if museums should have a digital strategy. It’s a tricky question that left half the class saying yes and half saying no. And in reality and like everything in the museum sector, what works for one museum may not be the…

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Digital Evolution at the Frick Art Reference Library

July 20, 2018 / 0 comments

For this interview I spoke with Luciano Johnson, who works within the Digital Lab at the Frick Art Reference Library. The institution boasts a comprehensive in-house digitization program which has continued to grow and adapt to new technology. Digital Imaging Lab Q. What is your official job title? I am a Digital Preservation Librarian. Q. How many…

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Pratt at MoMA: Implementing Digital Strategies in Museums

July 20, 2018 / 0 comments

Pratt MDC students visiting MoMA’s Louise Bourgeois exhibition with Assistant Director of Digital Media, Chiara Bernasconi In a new course at Pratt titled “Digital Strategy: Museum Planning and Management,” Elena Villaespesa teaches the frameworks and tools needed to implement digital strategies in museums. To build on readings and in-class exercises, the class spent an afternoon…

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Visitor Journey Mapping In Museums

July 19, 2018 / 0 comments

Co-written by Megan Paqua and Sydney Stewart The museum visitor experience is often difficult to visualize for every visitor from beginning to end. That is where visitor journey mapping comes in. A user journey map is the creation of a visualization of the steps a visitor might go through in engaging with the museum during the…

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Not being photogenic in the age of Instagram: Natural History Museums

July 19, 2018 / 0 comments

Natural history museums are some of the most easily accessible museums to people of all walks of life and of all ages. How many of us went to a natural history museum in 2nd grade as a field trip? It’s easy to see how these natural history museums relate to so many of the lessons…

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Digital Strategy at The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

July 19, 2018 / 0 comments

For this interview, I spoke with the Director of Cross Platform Publishing, Strategic Partnership, and Acting Director of Digital and Emerging Media, Pamela Horn. Q. What is your job title at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum? A. I hold several job titles at the museum. They are: Director of Cross-Platform Publishing, Strategic Partnership, and Acting Director…

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InstaFame: Is It Relevant to Museums?

July 19, 2018 / 0 comments

Technology is often touted as the force moving society forward, a democratizing force. Social media technology, especially, has the power to build networks of people all over the world. Museums aren’t new to social media, the majority are on several platforms. It is an inevitable reality of the present, and while some may consider it…

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Digital Strategy at the SFMOMA

July 19, 2018 / 0 comments

SFMOMA Logo Since its inception in 1935 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has been in the forefront of innovative and successful museum strategy. This rings especially true after their reopening in 2016, to glean more insight on what it takes to not only stay relevant but true to your institution’s mission, vision,…

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Avatar: The Last Airbender Social Network (Season 1)

July 19, 2018 / 0 comments

Inspired by the Les Miserables network example that Gephi provides, I decided to take a look at the social network of a TV show I was more familiar with, the Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. While I initially wanted to take a look at the overall show, I ended up focusing just on the…

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Zachary’s Karate Club

July 19, 2018 / 0 comments

Zachary’s Karate Club is a well-known dataset that describes the relationships in a university karate club, used by Wayne W. Zachary in his paper “An Information Flow Model for Conflict and Fission in Small Groups.” This dataset is famous for its clear depiction of community structure, which occurs when nodes of a network can be…

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