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To assess the risks that COVID-19 poses to vulnerable populations, a team of researchers modeled the spread of the virus within a refugee camp in Bangladesh. This project has informed public health interventions to COVID-19, and can be used to inform institutional responses to future health crises.
Through a review of trends in the current literature on the topic, I explore community archives as an alternative to traditional archival practice. Ultimately, I argue for a reconceptualization of community archives as part of the archival continuum rather than as traditional or mainstream archives’ binary opposite.
Using Tableau Public and a series of datasets, this dashboard uniquely examines the phenomenon of concerning experiences online, with a feminist analytical framework. Gender dimensions are highlighted throughout, and gaps in available information is discussed. It is part of a larger series on online violence against women in politics.
This project discusses the development of an educational conversation agent supporting an initiative I developed called WESTAND, standing for We Emerge Stronger Together And Never Defenseless. The initiative and the agent serves to increase the accessibility of bystander intervention training–offered at no cost by some non-profit organizations but with limited capacity or in B2B settings.
This map, made in Carto, is an exploration of the relationship between public space and public housing in NYC. By examining the area and frequency of these dynamics within Community Districts, I illustrate the stark differences in NYC’s realized development priorities, highlighting impact on a hyperlocal scale in novel ways.
Presenting on my work as the Linked Open Data fellow @ MoMA, from modelling, to research, to formatting the data. Working with the international Linked Art community to solve Linked Data related questions and examples.
This presentation will showcase my work as the 2020-2021 Born-Digital Archives Fellow at the Guggenheim Museum Archives. It will highlight the project evolution of appraising a backlog of curatorial records to uploading exhibition assets to a digital asset management system for museum-wide discovery.
This presentation addresses ethical issues concerning youth participation within the process of selecting for children’s collections. It examines current practices in the Collection Development/Selection Policies of school libraries nationwide through the lens of children’s rights (defined by the UN Convention of the Child) and proposes youth-inclusive approaches.
This presentation introduces some primary research paradigms with an emphasis on the UX field. By introducing the philosophical assumptions behind those paradigms, this presentation also introduces a way to evaluate a research design.
I will present a data analysis project in which I use basic machine learning to analyze the types of Trump voters and how the groups differ from one another in their opinions on various political issues. A summary of the project is available here: https://wmerrow.github.io/work/types-trump-voters.html
This project originated with Professor Lopatovska’s Info 601 class, in which I analyzed and wrote a paper about do-it-yourself music archives as an alternative method of archival preservation. I will define DIY in relation to community archives, explain the importance of DIY music archives and problems that they face.
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.
Through this paper/presentation, I identify the risks to artists that unorganized, non-archival studio practices pose, I describe the basic principles and practices of archiving and of personal archiving, and I argue that through applying archival principles to their studio practices, artists can improve the searchability and longevity of their work. I contend that a purposeful implementation of archival practices is worth the artist’s time and interest. Concluding with an examination of the ways in which the archival impulse enters the conceptual realm of artmaking, I round out a comprehensive examination of the impact that a knowledge of archival principles and theory can have on an artist’s practice.
“Alex’s Art Book Blog” is a website that allows users to explore the contents of my bookshelves by clicking on shelves and reading the titles and publication information inside. This website is a result of a class assignment designed to teach students how to create a website from scratch using HTML and CSS.
Expanding upon a “pedagogy of desire”, I map a framework from Samuel Delany’s fiction onto the MLIS classroom. I argue that the act of seeking other students in the classroom allows for a manifestation of Delany’s contact principle, and that centering contact moves us closer to an embodied pedagogy.
Conceptualizing and designing alternate minimal movie posters to visually express the main theme. A wide range of graphic and typographic styles were explored for these expressive artworks while exploring clever visual puns and metaphors. Surprisingly, some of these posters received appreciation from directors, writers and leading actors of the movies.
My project will cover the user research I conducted. I ran several unmoderated usability tests for different parts of the website, for a range of users. My team tested the layout and content in an effort to improve the user experience for visitors online. I also participated in design reviews.
Project Contrast is visual and data-driven exploration of socio-economic disparity through a speculation with urban context. Comparing two territories: Tejgaon slum area in Bangladesh and The High Line park in NY, united by urban similarity (people settling along the railway line), the project emphasizes the contrast of living conditions, and speculates on the ways to help.
This was a final presentation in Collection Development and focuses on why libraries need to emphasize ethical purchasing in collection development. It provides some insight into how this may be possible through proactive collection development and budget allocation.