Introduction: Choosing A Topic Learning about formatting a timeline, I selected a topic quickly the first class to start exploring the features and by the second cIass realized I’d like select a topic a little more relevant to myself and/or places I’ve lived. I lived in Oakland for many years and decided to make a…

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One of the earliest maps of Florida. Florida has a signature silhouette that most Americans can identify in a single glance, but it turns out that this hasn’t always been the case. Mapping a large peninsula like Florida required a massive human effort, both technologically and politically, and it’s only recently that we’ve come to…

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Written by Jamie Raymond Information Visualization Summer Course at Pratt Institute In an era when data drives key decisions, there is importance to present the data and for the visual to tell the audience a story and visual representations can enhance learning and understanding. The Interactive Design Foundation describes Information Visualization as “the process of…

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View the timeline: Look at the Time: Different methods of marking time through data visualizations I started with a goofy idea, a timeline of timelines, in the vein of Marshall Eriksen: Marshall’s visualizations are pretty specious, but I think I was able to successfully compile a handful of information visualization milestones that illustrate ways we…

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Introduction Serval days ago, I bought an unopened, vintage Coca-Cola, the owner of that vintage store, could not tell me when was that Coca-Cola being produced. I always thinking about to figure that out myself, and when I saw the TimeLine JS project, I thought about this right away. During the research of this project,…

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Introduction to Timelines Creating a timeline involves listing a series of events from beginning to end. Given the desire to learn more about my new home, I became interested in representing significant events in the recent, contemporary history of NYC. As a new resident to New York City, it’s important for me to find and establish…

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Introduction My Knight Lab Timeline was inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s ‘small multiples’ and Étienne-Jules Marey’s Paris-Lyon train schedule and Chronophotographic Gun. These related visualization milestones appear on “An Interactive Timeline of the Most Iconic Infographics” (www.infowetrust.com/scroll/). Muybridge (1830-1904) and Marey (1830-1904) were contemporaries and contributed substantially to the field of photography through their technological inventions….

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Introduction Smartphone and app seems to dominate people’s daily lives. Since I have some design experiences about electronic devices, I am very curious about the digital world of smartphone development in the recent decade. At the same time, social media, which change the way individuals and large organizations’ communicate, also made huge impact recent years….

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Introduction Populated place, known for the places of human settlement, is a geographical area constituting a city or town. In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live. A settlement can range in size from a small number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of…

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Introduction and Goals As a continuation of my previous topic visualization of global flight networks, I decided focus on improving the customer (user) experiences of airline companies in my final project, which is also the project goal. As I mentioned before, If you used to have the experience flight 19 hours of a long distant…

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