| ITPG-GT.2818. | Staff | TBD | Call# |
| Each day more and more data becomes available online; earthquakes, government systems, crime statistics, user web data and on services like Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook etc. Until this data is collected, culled and visualized, it sits in spreadsheets as a clustered mess of numbers. In this class we'll learn to tell visual stories with this data. We'll learn about and use data sets that already exist from government websites like data.gov and from private websites. We'll learn the balance of telling stories with information - function, and making the content visually appealing - form. We'll also explore mapping information using geocodes and location information. Later in the course we'll build data collections using hardware (Arduinos, mobile phones etc.) and in turn tell stories with this information. The final section of this course will look at a specific reporting problem from The New York Times and try to investigate using or creating data sets. *Every alternate class will have a range of guest lecturers including news, government and private businesses. **Must have intermediate Processing & Adobe Illustrator skills. Guest Lectures Include: Sarah Slobin. Graphics Director, The Wall Street Journal Ben Fry. Co-Creator, Processing Michael Driscoll. Founder dataspora.com Mark Hansen. Statistician/Professor CENS (Center for Embedded Network Censors) UCLA Ben Cervegny. Flickr, Frog Design, Stamen Aaron Koblin. Visualization Artist & Google Visualization Lab Dennis Crowley. CEO, Foursquare. & members of The New York Times Multimedia/Graphics Department Note: This course meets for 12 sessions beginning Monday, January 25. ( Story ) |