Music has such a storied role in the culture of New York City, particularly live music. Streaming music services started to flourish around 2015 and have since become the primary way people listen to music. We initially created this project to explore what streaming services were trending on a national level compared to what artists…

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A project using Python programming to create a 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons character generator. Dungeons & Dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game in which each player creates a character with a combination of traits, skills, and equipment to generate a unique game-playing experience. The customization options are nearly endless — and at times, that…

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This project uses Python to retrieve and filter object metadata for the collections of three different art museums in the United States: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; The Cleveland Museum of Art; and the Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, MA. The aim of the project is to provide flat data for…

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In this project, I used the data of The Oscar Award, 1927 – 2020, and Movie Database (IMDB Alternative) to make visualizations of Oscar winners of 2011-2020. Number of Oscars and IMDB rating are both good indicators of the qualification of a film, and therefore the visualizations I created could give the overall ranking of…

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This project was carried out to function as a tool for analyzing and geospatially visualizing planned construction in New York City in terms of potential future Airbnb revenue. The end product could be used either internally by Airbnb, or externally by the City of New York, financial companies, or other stakeholders. For example, Airbnb could…

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This project compares the stock prices of four companies i.e “Facebookâ€, “Amazonâ€, “Google†and “Netflix†for the last two years. Through the Yahoo Finance API all the historical data was called to get the “dateâ€, “open priceâ€, “close priceâ€, “highâ€, “lowâ€, “volume†and “adjusted close†for the four companies which was then saved as json…

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There is a common situation that in movies, female are more frequently to be set as secondary characters. The existing movie dataset shows that the percentage of women speaking characters is far less than men, similar situation as directors, writers, and producers. I want to make comparative visualization to give people more intuitive information..

The original goal of this project was to map the movement of sea turtles. I was inspired by an article that I read a few years ago in Nautilus magazine, Where the Wild Things Go. Oliver Uberti wrote the article and also created the gorgeous illustrated maps of elephant and sea turtle migration data. “To…

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Some public libraries are adding seed libraries: patrons can request a seed, usually for an edible plant, from the library’s catalog, grow it, and then “return” the seeds by donating seeds saved from the mature plant. Unlike most library materials, these seeds often don’t have structured metadata; a list of seeds may just be available…

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With this project, I wanted to create new collage poems from a txt file of all of the poems from the Poetry Foundation site. The code will pull random lines from the txt file and write it to a new file. Run the code as many times as you’d like to create a poem of…

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When completed, this in-progress project aims to illustrate the overlapping and contradictory parentages of the Greek gods. In the lore and study of ancient Greek mythology, many classical sources have attributed deities’ parentage to a variety of other deities; it becomes almost impossible to keep track of how many variations of parentage a single member…

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Dataset: My project is the MET archive analysis report. I used the API (RESTful web service in JSON format) that provides access to all of The Met’s Open Access data. It has all of the artworks at the MET so I chose to focus on just one medium of art to help focus on a…

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The number of startups has continued to grow over the years but only a few succeed, as a reported 90% of startups fail. With such a high failure rate, I was curious as to what types of startups investors were funding and if there were any trends among these investments. I obtained a spreadsheet of…

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I spent this past academic year working as a web archiving fellow with the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC). As part of that work, I was responsible for performing quality assurance on the archives of the Brooklyn Museum’s website, so I became intimately familiar with the structure of the site and the metadata of…

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For this project, I used Python to determine several insights regarding street trees throughout the NYC area. I was able to perform this analysis by using the 2015 NYC Street Tree Census data from NYC Open Data. First, I downloaded the 2015 NYC Street Tree Census csv file from NYC Open Data then I created…

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