Free Form

Final Project Writing a Project Proposal The goal of the final project is to bring 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…

Stones Unturned

Exercise 3: Mapping Space and Frames of Reference In this exercise you will be concerned with the space on the screen as much as the marks you place on it. This will be true both because you'll be creating a traditional, cartographic map (for which space & position have obvious…

A Thousand Suns

Exercise 2: Mapping Quantities, Categories, and Summarized Data For this second exercise, 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:…

Right Twice a Day

Exercise 1: Mapping Time Preliminaries Gather all the necessary software and files to get started: The Sublime Text 3 editor The GitHub Desktop GUI client Clone a copy of https://github.com/samizdatco/dvia-2018 The P5.js site has an extensive Reference section with a full listing of the drawing…