Introduction Gender equality is a human right, but our world faces a persistent gap in access to opportunities and decision-making power for women and men. Globally, women have fewer opportunities for economic participation than men, less access to basic and higher education, greater health and safety risks, and less political representation. Women’s participation in parliaments……

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Introduction Kickstarter was once a fed a few years ago, most of my designer friends/colleagues who work in the tech industry at least pledge money to one Kickstarter project, and only a few of them received the product they supported. Thus, I’d like to take a look at the Kickstarter data to check some information……

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Introduction of the topic It was an interesting procedure for me to explore the topic that I want to visualize in the Lab last week. In the beginning, I was unsure if I can find any data related to Asian’s occupations around the world, and it is true that sometimes it is hard to look……

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View Dashboard 1 & 2 Introduction My goal of this project aims at proposing the future assumption of the world population by using the data of the global population and density from 2005 to 2018. I will focus on some certain countries that mainly affect the world’s population. The idea of the project was boosted……

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INTRODUCTION I coincidentally got a chance to see a graph of Cause of Deaths in Our World in Data, the information and graphs are really attract me for many reasons. We might all know somehow that a life expectancy has been rising globally. It is also true that improved healthcare and treatments have also increased……

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As the saying goes, the things that scare you and the things that actually kill you are rarely the same things.  So seems to be the case with vaccines which, despite overwhelming evidence proving them to be one of the greatest lifesaving measures in the history of medicine, have been made to justify themselves to……

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Introduction The video game industry is a huge growing sector of the economy and brings enjoyments to many people. For this project I wanted to take a closer look at how video games and am asking the following question: How can I find out how the industry has changed over years and what is being……

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Background Education is a very common topic in the world. I choose to visualize this topic from a specific perspective, which focuses on the female secondary education ratio in the world. Before I find data, my initial idea is to visualize the comparison ratio between female and males and find some insights into sexism from……

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BACKGROUND: Our most recent elections have deemed 2019 “the year of the woman.” A record breaking 36 new women won seats to the House last November, joining the ring of 66 female representatives re-elected. Most of these women are now replacing men who had occupied the seats before them. What’s more, researchers predict there will……

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Intro The timeline is a very common information visualization method, especially when we want to present the history of something or the process of some developments. In the last class, we have an in-class lab to create a timeline website by using a very efficient tool TimelineJS. My topic for this timeline lab is the……

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Introduction After walking through the brief history of information visualization with our professor, all students in class requires to hand on the very first info viz creation by using Timeline Js- a tool to create a beautiful timeline with ease. What interests me a lot is that there is no comprehensive introduction of “timeline” in……

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Introduction For my timeline, I chose to create a history of the heat map. From some of the readings we have done for class I realized there are several different ways to visualize information and decided to focus on exploring one type. While this timeline is a brief overview, a viewer can use the five……

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Introduction to Data Set Each year, hundreds of thousands of people die in New York City due to multiple causes. I was interested in taking a closer look at these causes by using NYC OpenData’s New York City Leading Causes of Death data set. This data set uses death certificates in NYC since 2007 and……

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Introduction Is it hard to connect with your friends in different countries? The answer might be No. In recent decades, social media has taken an essential part of our life. We share our ideas or opinions through social media such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter to communicate with our online community easily. For this Lab……

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Introduction After walking through the brief history of information visualization with our professor, all students in class requires to hand on the very first info viz creation by using Timeline Js- a tool to create a beautiful timeline with ease. What interests me a lot is that there is no comprehensive introduction of “timeline” in……

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Color tells a story. Depending on our background and experiences, colors indicate meaning without words. It can demand attention and set a certain mood. Color has not always been well understood, however, and still continues to be an object of serious thinking.  As students of data visualization, color is one of the tools that we……

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Introduction Every city has its unique history of city planning which leads to different street systems. Manhattan is laid out on a uniform grid of streets and avenues, making it easy to navigate. The street grid is a defining element of Manhattan. But it was not always like that. Before the grid, New York City……

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Introduction For my timeline, I chose to create a history of the heat map. From some of the readings we have done for class I realized there are several different ways to visualize information and decided to focus on exploring one type. While this timeline is a brief overview, a viewer can use the five……

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Introduction Compare with other forms of information visualization, cartography has a considerably longer history. Its history can trace back to the paleolithic era. However, the map we use today is almost nothing like the one our ancestors have used. There are dozens of varieties of maps have been developed as well. These different types of……

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Introduction Is it hard to connect with your friends in different countries? The answer might be No. In recent decades, social media has taken an essential part of our life. We share our ideas or opinions through social media such as Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter to communicate with our online community easily. For this Lab……

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