Now that you have gathered your data, it's time to analyze it further and visualize it. With the data set that you've gathered, which is just for one week and only with a handful of variables, you probably won't need a computer or special tools to analyz ...
Visualizing Human-Caused Seismic Activity
There has been a dramatic increase in seismic activity in the United States in the past ten years, some of which is caused by fracking but much more of which is the result of waste water from traditional oil and gas drilling; this waste water is rei ...
Are we getting more impatient, if not more stupid? Kevin Drum, marshmallows, and data visualization
Apropos of the Nicholas Carr reading for Thursday, our data conversation today, and the data viz assignment coming up, it seems worthwhile to pass along a post I just saw about children and marshmallows. Are you familiar with the famous marshmallow test? ...
Data visualization from everyday life
Due: 10/2 Objectives: Introduction to data visualization, which we'll be doing a lot more with during the latter half of the semester. Experience gathering data, making decisions about what counts or doesn't, considering the difficulties in that pr ...
Movie Montage
Due: 10/16 Converting DVD to MP4 In order to create the movie montage, you need to have a feature length film in a format that you can watch in VLC. If you have a DVD player in your laptop or desktop, you can skip this step and just open t ...