Introduction Calls for criminal justice reform often use powerful visualizations to illustrate the United States’ dramatic increase in incarceration rates and the stark racial disparities existing within its incarcerated population (Fig. 1). These visualizations often credit the failed policies of America’s 50 year “war on drugs” as a driving force behind mass incarceration, but often……

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Timeline.JS Lab Report by Kyle Palermo, June 9, 2019. Background This timeline attempts to place humanity’s use of color in the context of a technological struggle. Color has been part of the entire human existence but only for the last several hundred years have we been able to meaningfully exploit it; for most of our……

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Introduction Information visualization is the practice of displaying raw data through the use of charts, graphs, and images. Modern day visualizations rely heavily on computer applications and technologies. These technologies began taking shape as early as the 1600s, and have steadily advanced to where we are today. Using this timeline, I attempt to highlight some……

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Introduction Visions of a futuristic city vary greatly, but many of them almost always feature autonomous technology of some sort, especially in cars. Autonomous vehicles are seen as the future of driving as it can provide many benefits, such as the reduction of air pollution, traffic congestion, and accidents. Although the use of AI seems……

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Introduction The adventure of space exploration has been a dream of many humans on Earth throughout the ages. From the extraordinary accomplishments of the Space Race to the modern flights to the International Space Station, many astronauts have ventured out into space and have included diverse groups of individuals including women and people of color.……

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Introduction The history of User Experience is a rich history that includes a lot more than just the computer industry.  Most things we use as a human has evolved to be simpler and easier for us to use.  Even without realizing it the practice of User Experience has been put into everything we create.  The goal of User……

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INTRODUCTION MATERIALS USED TimelineJS, alongside Google sheet, was used to create the primary interface for this project. TimeLineJs uses a very interactive interface with images, videos, and text, etc. I also retrieved information via the internet regarding the referenced typed ” The Evolution of Cellular Phone. ANALYSIS LET’S TALK SPEED HIGHLIGHTS 1st Generation ” 1G”……

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Introduction While its publishing company had produced comics since 1939, Marvel Comics was truly established in 1961 with the creation of the Fantastic Four. Marvel followed up with Spiderman, the Avengers and the X-men, superheroes that would become the foundation of the now 7000+ stable of characters.  At the time, Marvel set itself apart with……

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This map is intended to give the user an idea of which Manhattan libraries are busiest. It visualizes the location of each library as well as the total attendance and reference transactions. The library’s neighborhood population is also visualized to give the user a sense of what percentage of the community each library serves. To……

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.