Reading #4Anatomy of an AI System by Kate Crawford In Kate Crawford’s essay “Anatomy of AI System,” Crawford examines the Amazon Echo as an analogous to human labor, data and earth resources. She lifts the veil concealing AI technology around The Amazon Echo, by following the life cycle of…
Based on last week’s feedback, I focused in on comparing the Storage Unit industry to other big companies synonymous with being ubiquitous: McDonalds and Starbucks. Though instead of comparing the number of locations, which was one of the graphs of my initial poster, I zoomed into the squarefoot difference,…
Claims: The relationship between consumer spending and Storage units remains unclear.There are more storage units than Starbucks and McDonalds in the U.S. CombinedRevenue growth isn’t reflected in Employment GrowthLong term storage dominates the marketLarger storage unit spaces see the biggest growthStorage units has low employment despite high…
Source: Wired UK…
What is the topic? Self-storage UnitsWhat is the data set? Self-Storage units near me using google map and then SpareFoot (a self-storage listing site). What are the visual decisions you made? I considered at first listing them in distance order with room to put info below each unit similar to…
In Lev Manovich’s essay “The Anti-Sublime Ideal in New Media,” it speaks about the revolutionary role computer technology had on data visualization. It changed the way we look, collect, scale, and display data. Taking what were abstract concepts or big data sets, while drawing on and sometime re-inventing previous…
This week's chapters 7–10 from The Craft of Research in the section “Making an Argument” was all about advice in making a claim and supporting it. Chapter 7 introduces us into how to arguments in research. The authors ask to see argument as a conversation with readers, which is…
I found the reading (chapters 3–6 from The Craft of Research in the section “Asking Questions, Finding Answers”) incredibly helpful as we face the daunting task of starting our thesis. The reading provided a process of how to tackle possible topics for research, determine critical questions, glean problems those…
WednesdayTrash / Size"The U.S. produces more than 30 percent of the planet’s total waste, though it is home to only 4 percent of the world’s population."- The Frontier GroupThursday Moon / Position In total, there are 3 full supermoons on January 21, February 19 and March 21,…