Introduction I decided to take another look at the summary of NYC’s projected population over 2010–2040 by the Department of City Planning. This rich dataset adds categorization to population statistics by age groups and boroughs of NYC. Besides including totals, the summary sorts the population information into categories of age groups (18 age groups between the…

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This research started with a simple question; I wanted to understand if there was a correlation between school violence, (such as robbery, assault, etc.) plus the violence of regions around schools with the amount of extra-curricular activities that those kids have. In other words, I want to understand if kids have more stuff to do…

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Introduction Depending on rain levels each year, fire season in California has the ability to ravage certain areas, stretching from backcountry to populated areas. Wildfires are expected; they clear away dead vegetation and weak trees creating space and opportunity for new and stronger growth. At the same time, if uncontrolled, they have the potential to…

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Introduction “This is the price of freedom.  Violent nuts are allowed to roam free until they do damage, no matter how threatening they are.” A quote from Bill O’Reilly’s Blog, No Spin News, regarding the mass murder in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay hotel in the Fall of 2017.  This quote, unfortunately, clearly states that…

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Introduction New Orleans—a city located in the Deep South nestled in a crescent bend in the Mississippi River—has a rich cultural history. Despite sub-tropical climate, and the guarantee of biblical weather, it remains a place of resiliency, love, and hope. Indeed, New Orleans is my hometown and, although a New Yorker now, I am forever…

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Introduction Not only the Tableau Public, Is there any other tools can analyze data by mapping? 3 Inspirations https://carto.com/gallery/internet-standards/ https://carto.com/gallery/stolen-cars/ https://carto.com/gallery/lifewatch-inbo/Process Carto is a complexed tool, which requested the designer has to have clear thoughts about putting data in order. The process of refining the data is more complicated than others. I download the data from the…

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The topic of this information visualization mapping lab are the museum’s in New York City’s five boroughs in comparison with the average median household incomes for the different neighborhoods in said boroughs. I hope to analyze the relationship between these two subjects in the city. As museums in this country do not wholly depend upon…

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“Bigfoot” is a cornerstone of North American folklore dating back 400 years to Native American myth. This creature is described as a 6- to 9-foot bipedal man-beast, sometimes completely covered in black, brown, or burnt red hair and always described as having very large feet. Despite claims by the scientific community that Bigfoot is nothing…

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Inspired by the Les Miserables network example that Gephi provides, I decided to take a look at the social network of a TV show I was more familiar with, the Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender. While I initially wanted to take a look at the overall show, I ended up focusing just on the…

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Zachary’s Karate Club is a well-known dataset that describes the relationships in a university karate club, used by Wayne W. Zachary in his paper “An Information Flow Model for Conflict and Fission in Small Groups.” This dataset is famous for its clear depiction of community structure, which occurs when nodes of a network can be…

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