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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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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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Almost 10 years ago, I taught a course on Patricia Highsmith, and since then, there has been a bit of interest in this mini-documentary I created for my students and the end-of-term film festival we hosted around Highsmith adaptations. It's about 16 minutes in length, posted originally on Vimeo and now YouTube. The Associació Internacional …
For this geospatial analysis project, I wanted to learn more about women printers in the early eighteenth century—I was really interested in using a historical map, and this seemed like an interesting avenue. Where did women in the print trades work? How many were there? Were they located centrally, or marginally, geographically speaking? I did …
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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 …
If you teach writing or assign essays, you will likely be using Canvas' annotation features in SpeedGrader. I know I do! However, the vast majority of students have no idea how to find these marginal notes. Most of my colleagues didn't know students couldn't see it! When students go to view their feedback through Grades, …
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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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Tonya Howe 