Monday, February 24, 2014

Assignment 2

In this assignment, we were tasked with using the world university rankings to come up with a suitable data visualization to match. I thought of several ideas that were more out of the box such as the number of bars near the top 10 school, Most expensive to results/ job earning/number of graduates, Top design schools, Top nursing schools, Number of undergrads who go to graduate school, Rank universities with the longest name, Oldest universities, Cheapest universities, Alcohol consumption to uni ranking, most dangerous colleges.

So here is a draft:


Assignment 1

In Assignment 1, we take a look at : http://www.datavis.ca/milestones/ for some historical milestones. We see the development of technology and its different locations. I have taken another view and gone on to do more research. From the growth of technology, I decided to branch out and check out the growth and improvement of the Apple iPod. Here is the first draft:


Thursday, January 23, 2014

Class Post 1

Regarding the Singapore General Elections Tracker: (http://ge.swarm.is/)

What does this visualization try to say?
This data visualization website aims to show the top news feeds that are being shared on social media, news feeds, blogs and news articles. They help to differentiate the noise from the trending topics.

As a result, there are lists of visualizations to show the different trending topics for the day.