Midterm Project
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Hi, here’s my midterm project. Note: The embedded content is available on the menu on the top of the page. This is a visual representation of the locations of volumes 100-149 of The Uncanny X-Men comics.
For my midterm, I looked at the relationship between the the country of birth and country of death of artists from this dataset. Here is a link to my project.
“Tate Modern’s Worldwide Reach: Lives and Deaths of their Artists” is an interactive time map illustrating the lifespans, genders, and birthplaces of Tate Modern Art Collection’s international artists—pause the map to hover over and learn more information about artists alive… Continue Reading
Francis Bacon is everywhere. That’s what the website “Six Degrees of Francis Bacon” shows its viewer through a huge network of thousands of vertices which connect him to not only the queen of England, but Thomas Hobbes and Julius Caesar!… Continue Reading
Here is the ArcGIS map I made of squirrels in Central Park. The embedding of the map into my site allows you to resize and move around in the map while staying on my WordPress page. It’s very cool that… Continue Reading
From what we learned in class I believe web mapping to be an incredibly powerful tool that has numerous applications, but from my experience I believe using ArcGIS for historic maps could be very interesting. With the points, lines and… Continue Reading
In flipping through random maps in the David Rumsey Collection, I was surprised to see the wide range of topics maps were being used to illustrate. Maps can measure historic territory, wars, topography, sailing routes, climate, religion, and so much… Continue Reading
Hello, here’s the map i was chose to georeference. This was the first map I was given and chose to run with it since it seemed interesting. It’s a weather map from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau… Continue Reading
Georectifying the “World of Mercator Projection” map gave me some insights into the meaning of maps as visual arguments about the world. The purpose of georectifying a map is to create a more geographically accurate version of a map which… Continue Reading