Anatomy of an AI System by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler is a super ambitious project detailing the behind-the-curtain processes that go into ever-popular home assistant AI systems that are branded and designed particularly to mask this complexity. I found that distinction to be very interesting - the Amazon echo…
This visualization examines where the current homeownership landscape in New York City reflects the societal structures dictated in mid-1930's redlining maps, which served to exclude minority and low-class neighborhoods from the burgeoning mortgage market in the New Deal era United States.DataThe data for this project came from a few…
My approach with this week's assignment to construct some initial quantitative views was to focus on current census data, obtained through the US Census's API. I used the American Community Survey 5-Year Data (2017)'s Data Profiles endpoint, which "contain[s] broad social, economic, housing, and demographic information. The data…
Moritz Stefaner: The Rhythm of Food…
This book design explores the language used by the Home Owner Loan Corporation (HOLC) appraisers to rate the potential security of real estate investments within neighborhood tracts, connecting these judgements with snapshots of those same neighborhoods today.…
I found this week’s reading to be quite tough – Manovich’s oblique, academic, and often philosophical language was at times quite hard for me to navigate. As someone who identifies more as a pragmatist than artist in his pursuit of data visualization, many of the examples and projects Manovich…
Chapters 7-10 of The Craft of Research lay out a strategy and road-map to crafting, supporting, and defending a compelling research argument that shares the claims we’re making and the solutions we’re proposing to the specific, meaningful research problem we established using the helpful methods the authors discussed…
The ‘planning your project’ section of The Craft of Research was insightful and calming, providing useful frameworks and suggestions for a research beginner – and did so in a surprisingly readable manner. What was especially useful given our current stage of research (where we all have started thinking about topics and…
Wednesday 1.23Politics / OrientationWhile 43 percent support the construction of a border wall — compared to 49 percent who oppose construction — only 7 percent of voters said that they support dedicating funding to a border wall if it was the only way to end the government shutdown.-PoliticoNOTE from Politico after…