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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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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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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 …
Inspired by Dear Data, I created a personal data visualization charting conversations I've had with different people over the course of a week. The visualization uses thread from my mother's collection, most of which dated from the 1970s or early 80s, which was left to me when she died in the summer of 2011, at …
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In this Tableau dashboard, I chose to work with IMDB data, as I am starting a book project on horror film and its internal thematics of representation (horror films about art or artists broadly understood). I wanted to see what I could do with the genre information contained in IMDB. IMDB data is refreshed and …
I wanted to step outside my comfort zone this week in my Visual Storytelling class at MICA, so instead of creating a visual story aimed at, say, a parent reluctant to let their child pursue a liberal arts major in college, I elected to stick with the brief. We were asked to interview a random …
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I used Makeover Monday data for this project, specifically the “Price Parity” data from week 17 of this year. The data comes from the US Bureau of Statistics and shows overall rent, goods, and services prices across the 50 US states and DC from 2008-2019. It does not have good granularity; all the data is …
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I work in higher education, and a few days ago I saw the Chronicle of Higher Education interactive story “How Many Black Women Have Tenure on Your Campus?” Since I’ve done some data analysis with the Integrated Post-Secondary Education Data Set, I thought I would reprise this idea focusing specifically on Assistant Professors on the …
One thing that you may note as a potential challenge is the lack of due dates for any link. Links cannot accommodate due dates or to-do dates. This is something I've adapted to in my own teaching practice today. Instead of using direct links to videos I want students to watch or websites to visit, …
Students like modules, if not just as the homepage (Fox 2021). Think of the module as a chunk of your class. This post will show you how to set up a clear module list, so that students can access the content easily without you having to link to a lot of individual pages and assignments. …
Tonya Howe 