Category Data Visualization
Data Science for Change, an Infographic by Kaz Sakamoto
Kaz Sakamoto is a student in our class and he created the following infographic to explain the process our class will use to create the Think Piece. Kaz is a Master of Science in Urban Planning candidate at Columbia’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP) one of his interests is where public participation and technology intersect. He currently works for the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYC EDC) which is the City’s official economic development corporation; some of their successful projects include the Highline, Coney Island, East River Ferry service, and the upcoming Cornell+Technion campus on Roosevelt Island. He works in the asset management and GIS departments where he has been working on analyzing the economic impact of College Point Corporate Park in Queens and digitizing project data for the EDC. In his free time he likes to ride trains, explore the city, and makes maps… usually in that order.
Weekly Data Viz #4
Each Tuesday, Eurry Kim, a student in our class, will pick one example of data visualization to share with us. Eurry wrote:
Hi Rachel,
For this week’s viz, I decided on the following New York Times graphic:
Source: Jason Deparle and Matthew Ericson/The New York Times 05/09/09
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/05/09/us/0509-safety-net.html
New York Times again?? Yes, I have a good reason. Wait for it.[…]
Course announcements: Thursday (10/11) Columbia Data Viz event
Mike, a student in our class, writes about what should be a useful workshop. Their flyer appears below and I have to say, Mike, I wish it were more visually appealing given it’s a data visualization workshop. Mike has a sense of humor. He can take it. (Update: Mike responded “Yeah, I know sorry. We […]
Course Announcements (10/7) Data Visualization Event Monday
I received this message from a student in our class about a data visualization event tomorrow at Columbia. Hi Rachel, I’ve just come across this panel on data visualization tomorrow in Avery Hall: http://www.gsappevents.org/event/cluster Even if one can’t make it there (e.g., because one is going to the early lab session with Jared), it’s worth […]
Weekly Data Viz #3
Each Tuesday, Eurry Kim, a student in our class, will pick one example of data visualization to share with us. I’ll start with Eurry’s email and use that to point out 10 things […]
From http://orbitingfrog.com/post/28143196783/more-astronomy-data-mining-its-word-matrix-time
Weekly Data Viz #2
Each Tuesday, Eurry Kim, a student in our class, will pick one example of data visualization to share with us. Eurry writes: Here’s the visualization for this week: http://fathom.info/fortune500/ This fancy interactive time-series plot is based on a CSV file that Ben Fry found on a Wikipedia footnote — no scraping necessary! The graph breaks […]
Weekly Data Viz #1
Each Tuesday, Eurry Kim, a student in our class, will pick one example of data visualization to share with us. This week’s is an interactive visualization of consumer spending, one measure of inflation, from the New York Times, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Click on the link for the full effect. I’ll […]
