Introduction With family history in San Francisco, I wanted to explore the historical visualizations of the San Francisco area. After sorting through a vast amount of visualizations, I came across nautical charts of San Francisco published during the 1800’s and early 1900’s. I have selected a few with which to create a timeline to see……

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Introduction In the world of digital, we can get information easily. We use Google map to discover the world around us, even the world that we have never been to. Today’s convenience of access information makes me wondered how our ancestors get to know the world before the big data came into wide use. How……

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INTRODUCTION  In the 1st Lab, I created a timeline for 6 Amazing Data Visualizations of Creativity and Art History by TimelineJS. This topic demonstrates how the artists arrange data to record art activities and express their own concepts visually, and I chose this topic because I am interested to explore how artists manipulate and visualize……

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Traveling with Confidence As tempting as the urge to wander aimlessly may be at times, most travelers begin a journey — down the street or across the country — visualizing and organizing it. Some of this is done in our minds, some of it jotted on paper or in a note-taking app. Where will we……

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Introduction This report will summarize the experience of visualizing a timeline using the tool Knightlab Timeline. During one of the lectures, I was intrigued by Martin Waldseemüller’s world map in 1507, which inspired me to start looking into more maps from earlier ages. Instead of the world map in general, I decided to narrow down……

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Introduction Weather maps are embedded in our everyday lives. People often see a weather map, either consciously checking or as a segment of a larger piece of media, multiple times a day but give little thought to how or why the map looks and functions the way it does. This timeline is an introduction to……

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Introduction “A picture is worth a thousand words.” Communicating messages through visualization has been an effective technique used since the beginning of history. Pictogram, conveying the meanings by its representational and pictorial drawing, appeared since cave painting, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Greek geometry. Nowadays, the pictogram is a communication tool to draw attention and help people……

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Introduction Maps might be the most widely used data visualization in modern society. With the rise of the smartphone and online interactive map services such as google maps, it can be easily accessed by anyone. But how was it looked like two thousand years ago, long before those technologies were born? The three earlier world……

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Introduction Before having this class, I am curious about the history of graphic in data visualization, like who is the first people use graphic design as a powerful tool in a functional data map? Why he or she had this idea? What’s the value in it and how it influences the data visualizations? I learned……

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INTRODUCTION Human Computation Interaction is a young and emerging field in technology. During the emergence of the Human Computer Interaction it has been heavily influenced by science driven fields like computer engineering, psychological science and scientific discipline. Over the past few years it’s been remodeled from not simply science-influenced field however aesthetics influenced field still.  ……

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Introduction As a combination of graphic design and data analysis, information Visualization is at an exciting intersection where logic analysis and visual expression mingle. The format, as a carrier of information and the premiere language been spoken, serves the most significant functions in this process. Therefore, to talk more about the information, it is necessary……

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are powerful tools for spatial analysis that have transformed the way city and regional planners, environmental managers, politicians, students, and citizens interact with the natural environment. Initially created to provide Canadian officials information about the distribution of their natural resources, GIS has evolved to offer immense possibilities for efficient organization of……

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Introduction In New York, there are more and more international students from all over the world. They come here to gain a higher education. To study and live in such a big city, international students must face more challenges and difficulties than a native student. As an international student in New York, I remembered when……

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Introduction On Feb 18, 1997, I was born in a small town in China. It was a joyful event where few of my families were cheerful, because I was a girl. My mom was blamed for my birth as a girl and my grandma rarely hugged me before she was gone. When I was 12,……

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Introduction “Cultural heritage” is a broad term that is worth defining before proceeding with this report. According to UNESCO, the United Nations agency tasked with documenting and preserving cultural heritage, the term can be broken down into tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Examples of intangible cultural heritage include performances, rituals, and languages. This project focused……

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Introduction League of Legends (LoL) is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows and macOS. It is a team-oriented 5 vs 5 esports video game. The characters in the game are called champions. In the latest game patch, there are 143 champions for players to choose,……

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Introduction: Do you have an impression about food in Manhattan? Or if you would like to find some great Chinese food, where would you probably look for? You may not know every types of cuisine, but you may know one or two. My map is a combination of those cuisine data and subjective impression in……

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by Joanna Thompson & Taylor Norton Introduction Even though the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalized access to abortion in the United States, there have been continuous attempts to partially or fully restrict this access. Most recently, the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, who supports the overturn of Roe v. Wade, as well as the passing……

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Specific Learning Disorders in Reading (commonly known as Dyslexia) affect approximately 10 – 15% of the population (the official estimates are between 5 -12% but have been reported as high as 20%). The International Dyslexia Association gives the following definition: “Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by……

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Introduction Ever since I started my journey of visualizing data in the past few months, I’ve had a lot of fun and was able to interpret the patterns/meanings behind the datasets, also, I’ve learned there are something that can’t be measured or express neutrally throughout the information visualization works. Thus, I’d like to add a……

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