Film Permits in New York City from April 2018 to April 2019 INTRODUCTION New York City is the shooting location for many industries, such as Commercial, Television, and Film. In this project, I cleaned the data by Open Refine and visualized them by Tableau Public to demonstrate the category proportions, trends over one year, and……

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Introduction Turkey’s heavily diverse culture inherits elements from Eastern Mediterranean and Central Asian regions, as well as Eastern European and Caucasian traditions. This can be attributed to its unique geographical positioning, lying partly in Asia and partly in Europe. Owing to the same feature, it also becomes inherently vulnerable to earthquakes. The country sits between two huge tectonic plates,……

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Introduction NYC Business Acceleration is a program within Small Business Services that assists individuals and groups opening or operation a food and beverage, industrial, or retail businesses as well as pre-kindergarten programs. Designed to help these businesses open or expand more easily and faster, operate more smoothly and with fewer challenges, and recover from emergencies,……

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Data Collection The lifestyle of New York City is so hectic. The hectic lifestyle takes a toll on health as well. And every day and night there are ambulance running on the streets of New York. This made me wonder about the no. of deaths in New York. I found interesting dataset about it on……

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Introduction Mental health is never too important to stress, yet remains widely under-reported. Pew Research Center reported that 2008 had seen a significant increase in the number of internet users who looked for information about depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues. The percentage rose to 28% as opposed to a relatively stable 22% over……

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Introduction In the past 5 years, China has witnessed the rise and fall of its many dockless bike-sharing companies. Targeting on resolving the “First Km/Last Km” Transit problem, millions of bicycles were poured into China’s streets and soon became a hazard. Today, most of the bikes are stored and piled at bicycle graveyards across the……

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Instructions When I researched the topic: leading causes of death in data visualization, I found most of the people who do this topic are more focus on showing the high percentage of heart disease and put more focus on it. However, I am interested in suicide which is the lowest rate of disease. Other diseases……

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Introduction Transportation is one of the most essential activities in modern life. It contributes to the intersection of people and regions. In the process of conducting such activity, mistakes might occur and accidents might happen. In this project, building upon a dataset documenting all the vehicle collisions happened in 2013 to 2018, I intend to……

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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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