Free Form

Final Project In this final project you will be bringing the conceptual dimension of the class together with the visualization techniques we’ve learned. You will develop and implement a final project following a complete, iterative design process. The first step in this is the creation of a set of…

A Thousand Suns

Mapping Quantities, Categories, and Summarized Data For this third project, we'll be examining a simple time-series dataset: the history of nuclear testing by the eight (declared) nuclear nations. In the first phase of this project we will consider only the total number of test explosions across three dimensions: the state…

Right Twice a Day

Mapping Time Preliminaries Gather all the necessary software and files to get started: The Sublime Text 3 (or comparable) text editor The GitHub Desktop GUI client Create your own fork of https://github.com/samizdatco/di-2021 The P5.js site has an extensive Reference section with a full listing of…

Nothing but a Number

Over the next week you will create one poster every day. Each day, find a single number from a different subject area that interests you and spend your time thinking about how the scale of that value could be communicated formally. Create a visual representation using one of the seven…