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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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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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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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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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Having lived in Baltimore for a few years, and having several friends involved in the creative industries there, I wanted to explore this aspect of the economy in my most recent Tableau dashboard. I used ten Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance data sets for arts-related businesses and employment, public art, median household income, demographics, unemployment rate, …
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