Interview with Old Stone House Executive Director Kimberly Maier

February 13, 2020 / 0 comments

Executive Director Kimberly Maier, Photo from Kimberly Maier When thinking of the Old Stone House, digital is likely not the first thing that comes to mind. Important in many eras of Brooklyn and American history, the building was a focal point in the Battle of Brooklyn, it was the original clubhouse of the Brooklyn Dodgers and…

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The Evacuated People: A visual description of WWII relocation and its effects on West Coast Japanese populations

December 17, 2019 / 0 comments

BACKGROUND On February 19, 1942, President FDR signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of civilians from designated “military exclusion zones” spanning much of Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona. This consequently resulted in ten concentration camp locations dispersed throughout the United States. These camps were run by the War Relocation Authority and concentrated Japanese……

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School of Visual Arts(SVA) Library Website – Evaluation Story

December 16, 2019 / 0 comments

About the Project The School of Visual Arts Library is a major resource for art and design study, developed over the course of 60 years to foster the college’s intellectual and creative life. Its rich print and digital collections directly support SVA’s undergraduate and graduate curricula, and provide inspiration, establish context and widen perspectives. Library…

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NYC Restaurant Grades and Income

December 15, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction: NYC is home to thousands of restaurants across various cuisine types. Personally, I’m a very big fan of dining out at restaurants and trying new cuisines. In a previous lab, I created a map that attempted to examine the relationship between NYC restaurant grades by estimated annual household income, which I thought was incredibly interesting.……

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Evaluation Story: Audio Tours at the Jewish Museum

December 15, 2019 / 0 comments

The Jewish Museum launched a mobile-optimized audio tours website in July 2019, hoping that it would be a tool to “illuminate works of art from the Museum’s collection, highlight a range of perspectives, and provide an engaging experience for visitors of all backgrounds.” In order to get an understanding of how users were using the…

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A Breakdown of Diversity of Producers & Directors in the US

December 15, 2019 / 0 comments

Producers and directors make up an integral part of the workforce in the motion picture industry. With the call for more inclusivity of gender and race in the film industry, I wanted to take a look at the top people in the motion picture industry—producers and directors. The post A Breakdown of Diversity of Producers…

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Evaluation Story: Testing Engagement for the Innocence Project

December 15, 2019 / 0 comments

In fall 2019, as part of our final project for Usability Theory and Practice, I and three others carried out user testing for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit which seeks to free wrongly convicted criminals through DNA testing and advance criminal justice reform. Our evaluation used in-person user testing, resulting in a detailed report and…

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Usability Study: Cooper Hewitt Website

December 15, 2019 / 0 comments

ABOUT THE PROJECT Cooper Hewitt is America’s design museum. Inclusive, innovative, and experimental, the Smithsonian museum’s dynamic exhibitions, education programs, master’s program, publications and online resources inspire, educate and empower people through design. Cooper Hewitt is embarking on a website redesign but wants to learn more about how their users use the website. The goal…

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Cooper Hewitt User Testing Evaluation

December 15, 2019 / 0 comments

The FINAL REPORT The PRESENTATION THE CASE STUDY

The Body Count

December 15, 2019 / 0 comments

Link to Visualizations Introduction A drone strike is an attack by one or more unmanned combat aerial vehicles, or weaponized commercial unmanned aerial vehicles. Since the turn of the century, most drone strikes have been carried out by the US military in countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, and Yemen using air-to-surface missiles. According to James Rogers, an academic who……

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Understand the cause and effect of poverty in New York City

December 15, 2019 / 0 comments

INTRODUCTION As a person living in New York, we often see homeless people on the street, subway, or anywhere that is comfortable to sleep. Meanwhile, protests about minimum wage can often be seen on the street and so many government projects housing exist in the city. Yet about 1.7 million New Yorkers still lived below……

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Tracking mental health care

December 15, 2019 / 0 comments

Struggling with a mental illness is daunting, but the treatment process isn’t exactly an easy road on its own. After one musters enough courage to face their vitality head-on, treatment tosses the person with mental illness into a pharmaceutical industrial and late-capitalist self-wellness hellscape. Stigmatization reveals itself in dollar signs: According to a recent study……

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Trending Youtube statistics

December 14, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction to the visualization(s), including subject matter and goals; This visualization is created based on my personal interests. I’m enjoying browsing the recommended Youtube Videos because the algorithm knows my interests very well. It recommends videos by my viewing history. From that point, I start to be curious about the others’ interests based on their……

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Visualizing the Citywide Payroll

December 14, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction Coming to the end of 2019, my graduation from the IXD program is close. I’m very interested in working as a UX designer after graduation and it will be exciting to get a job here. Besides preparing myself for future job searching, I would like to do some research on the job market. For……

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What Influences the State of Languages?

December 14, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction This project shows economy, geography, and recorded conflict in relation to mapped endangered and extinct languages. Materials The program used to create the visualization is free software Tableau. The endangered/extinct dataset is from Kaggle. The country GDP dataset is from the World Bank. The recorded conflict dataset is from The Uppsala Conflict Data Program……

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Pratt Institute Website: Evaluation Story

December 13, 2019 / 0 comments

A team of four researchers completed a seven-week-long user testing study to test the usability of Pratt Institute’s website. This research was undertaken for the benefit of Pratt’s Communications and Marketing department, and was completed for the Usability Theory and Practice class taught by Prof. Elena Villaespesa. This project culminated in the compilation of a…

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Black and White and Red All Over: Understanding Color in Lucan’s Bellum Civile

December 13, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction When I was studying for my Masters in Classics, one of the texts I studied in depth was the Bellum Civile by Lucan, an epic poem from the Silver Age of Latin. In our classes we kept commenting on how Lucan’s use of color seemed distinct from other epic poems we were familiar with,……

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amazon – a visual presentation of the world’s highest-valued company

December 13, 2019 / 0 comments

This is the final project in the information visualization, made by DA&V-student Erik Hannell The post amazon – a visual presentation of the world’s highest-valued company appeared first on Information Visualization.

Global Terrorism 1970-2018

December 13, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction Terrorism has become a major concern over the years, making protecting individuals from violence and criminal activities a priority worldwide. The goal of this project is to analyze the dataset and bring out conclusions and try to recommend measures that can decrease/diminish terrorist activities. Dataset The dataset is a compilation of terrorist activities over……

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INFOVIS: MOBILE GAMING

December 11, 2019 / 0 comments

Introduction: While smartphones and tablets become more and more popular, the gaming trend tilts to mobile games. Even though some gamers are resisting to embrace this new gaming era, statics shows that the mobile gaming market is now generating more than 50 percent of the global video game revenue. In this project, I want to……

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