Author: Michael Kelly
Michael L Kelly is a Designer, Educator, sometime Writer and Brooklyn resident, with a great deal of experience in all four of those areas. He is also (very) soon to be a graduate from Pratt’s Data Analytics and Visualization program.
This project presents and reflects on the application of an alternate history of the U.S. Supreme Court, built from established ideological measurements and tenure data. The implementation of an 18-year term limit for Justices starting in 1970 is explored through case studies of five notable court decisions.
Using various GIS and Census Bureau data, this project explores different map formats showing the relationship between race and poverty in seven Hudson River communities. The aim is to create a more human, almost impressionistic visualization of a kind of data that we have seen countless times before.
This project aims to present an unironic, non-partisan collection of U.S. State portraits using existing U.S. News rankings, augmented by data from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Economic Analysis. Individual states, regions and a full national map allow for comparisons across multiple categories.