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 …
Conversations I’ve Had: A Hand-Sewn Data Viz
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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Exploring Genre and Sub-genre in IMDb
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 …
Visual story based on persona: “2K Paves the Way”
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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Cost of Goods, Services, Rents across the US, 2008-2019
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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Race and the Tenure Track: A Dashboard
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 …
Optimal Canvas Setup: Due Dates and Ungraded (Reading) Assignments
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, …
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Optimal Canvas Setup: Modules
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. …
Optimal Canvas Setup: The Importance of Clarity
Students value clarity above many other things, especially when taking an online course. Your Canvas site is their portal to your course, and to the work they must complete to satisfy the objectives. It is important to think of your Canvas course from the student's perspective, and if you've never taken an online course, yourself, …
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#LanguageDeath: Photographic Visualization
During our first class in MICA's Data Analytics and Visualization class, we learned a lot about different forms of visualization--this is my project for our photographic visualization week. The idea behind it is to inform a wide urban audience about the phenomenon of language death, which is unfortunately only increasing with each year that passes. …
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Tonya Howe 