Author Archives: Kevin Karol

Kevin Karol

10 May 2016

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For my final project I created a series of Jupiter notebooks which can analyze and interact with marked up plays to provide tools for directors, actors, dramaturges and playwrights.  These applications explore the wide array of easy to automate tasks …

Kevin Karol

07 Apr 2016

For my mapping project I decided to look at visualizing wifi signals emanating from phones and routers.

I encountered a number of difficulties tracking information from phones as it appears that iOS and Android have significantly increased the obfuscation of …

Kevin Karol

07 Apr 2016

7 Years of CMU School of Drama

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For my visualizations, I decided to create a set of small multiples comparing productions in CMU’s School of Drama.  17,000 images were scrapped from the School of Drama’s private flickr account, which after …

Kevin Karol

07 Apr 2016

For my final project I plan to continue work on the CMU Library play database that I parsed out during project 3.  I plan to apply a number of graph analysis metrics and natural language processing to create visualizations that …

Kevin Karol

24 Mar 2016

I am using Alexander Street Press’s database of 4,032 unique plays, acquired through the CMU library for datamining.

I am going to use this dataset to create visualizations around the idea of highly contextualized NLP since in play texts the …

Kevin Karol

18 Feb 2016

Wireless devices are constantly sending out WiFi probe requests, looking for networks that they know and can connect to.  I hope to take advantage of this to create a visual representation of the density of devices that surround me throughout …

Kevin Karol

16 Feb 2016

Inkling OSC: https://github.com/kevinmkarol/inkling_osc

Bundled with GNU Suite: https://github.com/kevinmkarol/inklingreader

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For my project I created a command line application that intercepts coordinate and pressure data from the Wacom Inkling pen and broadcasts it as OSC so that it can be used as …

Kevin Karol

02 Feb 2016

I was particularly struck by Irene’s twitter bot displaying the locations at which individuals had been shot by police.  When dealing with a topic that is not only so serious, but also so topically hot right now, it can be …

Kevin Karol

02 Feb 2016

Hearts A Tweeter: Dating Profile Generator

https://github.com/kevinmkarol/twitter_bot_dating_profile

My bot is called @HeartsATweeter and its URL is https://twitter.com/HeartsATweeter

Description: Online dating is a waste of time. So why waste any time on it? Give us a tweet and we’ll put together …

Kevin Karol

02 Feb 2016

For my Maps assignment I created visualizations of the recorded earthquakes between December 15, 2015 – January 14, 2016.

Map” Visualization

https://github.com/kevinmkarol/earthquake_lat_lon

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Although this portion was more of a technical extension of work completed in class, I decided to …