Flourish is a web-based data visualization tool that allows users to create nice-looking, animated charts with minimal effort. Users can export the charts as images or embed them in their own websites. Flourish’s combination of customizability and usability offers a… Continue Reading
I analyzed how the materials used to make sculptures in the Williams art collection changed over time using Python and Flourish. See the project here.
Here is a link to the map on my website. Embedding the map was a very frustrating process. For some reason, I kept getting black circles in the rendered HTML for the iframe. I ended up just making a new… Continue Reading
For this blog, I chose to analyze the network of early 29th century artists which was created for the Inventing Abstraction exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2012 and 2013. The graph depicts artists who… Continue Reading
I have a website! Overall, the process went well. It took me a bit to figure out how to log into the WordPress admin account from the server management screen, and it also took me a few minutes to find… Continue Reading
Now that I have your attention from the clickbaity title, here is my blog (I don’t actually think coding is bad). Popular culture portrays “computer science” as a person, usually a man, hunched over in the dark, hacking away at… Continue Reading
The “small world” phenomenon which states that regardless of how seemingly distant two people are, they can be connected by a relatively short chain of mutual friendships. There is a game which leverages this phenomenon called Six Degrees of Kevin… Continue Reading
A quote often attributed to Gloria Steinem says: “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” Debbie Chachra, “Why I Am Not a Maker,” The Atlantic, January 23,… Continue Reading
At first I thought the process was pretty easy–you just made a cube and then added a triangle on top. That went quickly. The difficulty came from all the little features: the dormers, the windows, the bump-out, etc. I found… Continue Reading
