All posts by Camille Gervais
Redesign Assignment
Survey Assignment
Little Big Data Proposal
Research Assignment – Part 1
• Data Visualization Aggregator
Collection of data visualization/data journalism by the Guardian.
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog
• A visualization
UrbanSensing is a platform extracting patterns of use and citizens’ perceptions related or concerning city spaces. The platform will allow to analyze users’ perceptions related to specific geographic areas and understand how population reacts to new urban policies within participatory mechanisms.
• Artist/Designer
LUST is a multidisciplinary graphic design practice established in 1996 by Jeroen Barendse, Thomas Castro, and Dimitri Nieuwenhuizen, based in The Hague, Netherlands. LUST works in a broad spectrum of media including traditional printwork and book design, abstract cartography and data-visualisations, new media and interactive installations, and architectural graphics.
• Visualization Tool
D3 allows you to bind arbitrary data to a Document Object Model (DOM), and then apply data-driven transformations to the document.
• Data Collection Tool
Google doc
• Discussion Forum
Discussion forum for the d3 library
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/d3-js
• Criticism
Everyone knows that the Internet has changed how businesses operate, governments function, and people live. But a new, less visible technological trend is just as transformative: “big data.” Big data starts with the fact that there is a lot more information floating around these days than ever before, and it is being put to extraordinary new uses. Big data is distinct from the Internet, although the Web makes it much easier to collect and share data. Big data is about more than just communication: the idea is that we can learn from a large body of information things that we could not comprehend when we used only smaller amounts.
• Data Source
U.S government census
http://www.census.gov/main/www/access.html
• Data Ethics
Or anything relating to the N.S.A really.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/the-nsa-files.
• A Book