BACKGROUND On February 19, 1942, President FDR signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of civilians from designated “military exclusion zones” spanning much of Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona. This consequently resulted in ten concentration camp locations dispersed throughout the United States. These camps were run by the War Relocation Authority and concentrated Japanese……

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Introduction: NYC is home to thousands of restaurants across various cuisine types. Personally, I’m a very big fan of dining out at restaurants and trying new cuisines. In a previous lab, I created a map that attempted to examine the relationship between NYC restaurant grades by estimated annual household income, which I thought was incredibly interesting.……

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Producers and directors make up an integral part of the workforce in the motion picture industry. With the call for more inclusivity of gender and race in the film industry, I wanted to take a look at the top people in the motion picture industry—producers and directors. The post A Breakdown of Diversity of Producers…

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Link to Visualizations Introduction A drone strike is an attack by one or more unmanned combat aerial vehicles, or weaponized commercial unmanned aerial vehicles. Since the turn of the century, most drone strikes have been carried out by the US military in countries such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, and Yemen using air-to-surface missiles. According to James Rogers, an academic who……

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INTRODUCTION As a person living in New York, we often see homeless people on the street, subway, or anywhere that is comfortable to sleep. Meanwhile, protests about minimum wage can often be seen on the street and so many government projects housing exist in the city. Yet about 1.7 million New Yorkers still lived below……

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Struggling with a mental illness is daunting, but the treatment process isn’t exactly an easy road on its own. After one musters enough courage to face their vitality head-on, treatment tosses the person with mental illness into a pharmaceutical industrial and late-capitalist self-wellness hellscape. Stigmatization reveals itself in dollar signs: According to a recent study……

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Introduction to the visualization(s), including subject matter and goals; This visualization is created based on my personal interests. I’m enjoying browsing the recommended Youtube Videos because the algorithm knows my interests very well. It recommends videos by my viewing history. From that point, I start to be curious about the others’ interests based on their……

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Introduction Coming to the end of 2019, my graduation from the IXD program is close. I’m very interested in working as a UX designer after graduation and it will be exciting to get a job here. Besides preparing myself for future job searching, I would like to do some research on the job market. For……

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Introduction This project shows economy, geography, and recorded conflict in relation to mapped endangered and extinct languages. Materials The program used to create the visualization is free software Tableau. The endangered/extinct dataset is from Kaggle. The country GDP dataset is from the World Bank. The recorded conflict dataset is from The Uppsala Conflict Data Program……

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Introduction When I was studying for my Masters in Classics, one of the texts I studied in depth was the Bellum Civile by Lucan, an epic poem from the Silver Age of Latin. In our classes we kept commenting on how Lucan’s use of color seemed distinct from other epic poems we were familiar with,……

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This is the final project in the information visualization, made by DA&V-student Erik Hannell The post amazon – a visual presentation of the world’s highest-valued company appeared first on Information Visualization.

Introduction Terrorism has become a major concern over the years, making protecting individuals from violence and criminal activities a priority worldwide. The goal of this project is to analyze the dataset and bring out conclusions and try to recommend measures that can decrease/diminish terrorist activities. Dataset The dataset is a compilation of terrorist activities over……

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Introduction: While smartphones and tablets become more and more popular, the gaming trend tilts to mobile games. Even though some gamers are resisting to embrace this new gaming era, statics shows that the mobile gaming market is now generating more than 50 percent of the global video game revenue. In this project, I want to……

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