The content of this article was fascinating, from the visualization at the very beginning, to the multiple stories it told that made up the components of the whole. I appreciated the density of it--any one of the components could have stood on its own as its own visualization-story combination. The…
I had several different datasets I was working with last week, but decided to stick with one that I used for my qualitative visualization, to explore what it could provide a bit more. The dataset comes from the Geocognition Research Laboratory, which has documented all public instances of sexual misconduct…
Graph 1Claim: More men are employed in science and engineering related fields than women, regardless of the degree of higher education, in all occupations except social science and psychology (non-hard sciences).Source: https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2017/nsf17310/data.cfm (9-7)Graph 2Claim: The majority of STEM academics indicted…
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Qualitative Visualizations: DraftsSubject + Topic + QuestionFor my three qualitative visualizations, I decided to focus broadly on these questions within the union of my two subjects of interest, neuro(science) and sexual violence/harassment:How have women in science been treated throughout history? How has sexual harassment and sexism played a role…
Lev Manovich says this about data mapping as the "anti-sublime", the title term at the heart of his essay:"If Romantic artists thought of certain phenomena and effects as un-representable, as something which goes beyond the limits of human senses and reason, data visualisation artists target the exact opposite: to…
CH7-10 give useful guidelines on how to formulate your arguments in a convincing way, make significant claims without falling into the trap of complete certainty, strengthening your arguments with sufficient evidence, and acknowledging limitations of your arguments. Much like the first few chapters, it served as a succinct reminder of…
These chapters in The Craft of Research went over the basics of how to frame your interest in a way that allow successful transitions from questions that you are personally interested in answering, to problems that are worth solving both for you and a greater audience, to identifying and utilizing…
WednesdayEthnoracial Diversity at Burning Man 2017 // Source: Black Rock City Census Report 2013 - 2017Diversity at Burning Man 2017 represented as ratios of people using hue. Total people in picture = 30; white (Caucasian): 77.1%; orange (Asian): 5.6%; pink (Hispanic/Latino): 4.9%; blue (Other): 9.3% . Not pictured…