In this post, I wanted to talk a little about my research design process. As I mentioned last post, I knew I wanted to create a network visualization, and I also knew I wanted to test Clover's theory about the self-consciousness of horror as a genre. What would I need to do this? My approach …
When Your Darlings Bite Back: A Century of Horror Film about (Un)Making
I've been pretty silent on this space for a while now, because all my time has been consumed with finishing my degree project for MICA's Data Analytics and Visualization program. But the end is in sight! What have I been up to? Basically, tearing my hair out. But also, working with a lot of IMDb …
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Using Hypothesis in your classroom
Downloadable Session HandoutDownload Active reading is an essential skill for students to master, especially in higher education. Your students should not just be memorizing things, but synthesizing ideas with other ideas, including their own, to develop new concepts and deepen or problematize narratives already in play. In the literature classroom, and in the writing classroom, …
First Network Diagrams
I spent the last few days trying to figure out parts of networkx, a python package for network diagramming--with some success! I had some old data from an earlier attempt at using networkx with tokened text from IMDB summaries and synopses. That code basically took each text chunk, tokened it out, dropped stopwords, and then …
Data Play: Horror, Art-Horror, Meta-Horror
As the python scraper continues to do its thing, I've started to play around with some of the resulting data. There have been a few bumps along the road (read: several major potholes), including difficulty pulling in large chunks of text from the synopsis page of each relevant film; I think it's also a problem …
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Data Analysis: Meta-Horror or Horror Films about Art
I've been kicking around an idea for a book project on horror films about art, broadly understood, for a while now. Maybe "art" isn't quite the right word, but I'm interested in self-conscious horror films and horror films that are about the act of creating something in an aesthetic way. I've been thinking about this …
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Can you buy into Baltimore? A data dashboard for renters
Visit the Tableau Dashboard We know that homeownership is a path toward stability and building wealth, so how can we provide renters with concrete ways to think about owning? How can we connect renters with innovative resources that make the prospect of ownership more possible? How can we give current renters the confidence to pursue …
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Seeing the Racial Wealth Gap: A Tableau Story
What does wealth look like, over time? How can we see the racial wealth gap? Using data from the Census Bureau on wealth, assets, and debt from 2013-2017, I developed this story that helps readers visualize how time compounds inequality. The reader should click through the story page by page to learn more. I was …
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A Proposition: For New College Students Considering the Rainbow
I've just finished my final piece in visual storytelling, using Figma as a tool less for prototyping an app and more for developing an interactive argument. The idea, however, is that this COULD become an app, used by admissions officers and high school guidance counsellors for the humanities-curious. Click for the Figma Prototype (Desktop/Laptop only) …
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Figma for a Text-Based Interactive Game
I have to say, I'm pretty psyched about this one, y'all. For the last project in this class at Maryland College Institute of Art, I'm working on a text-based interactive game using Figma for prototyping, the goal of which is to encourage the user to take seriously my proposition: that college students should consider pairing …
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