Author Archives: Jessica Shen

Jessica Shen

10 May 2016

For my final project, I spent most of my time learning D3 and playing around with the datasets I had, especially the pillbox dataset. From the previous project, I combined the pillbox dataset with a lethal dose dataset to visualize …

Jessica Shen

05 Apr 2016

I collected data about drugs and their toxicity and dosage levels.  Based on those levels, I organized and scaled them using D3.  Unfortunately I didn’t finish cleaning up the data, but will post a better update as soon as I …

Jessica Shen

24 Mar 2016

dataset:  images of pills (http://pillbox.nlm.nih.gov/developer.html#api).  I’m really interested both because I find it really beautiful, but I’m interested in how pills are designed based off of their function.

I hope to find some linkage between condition and pill.  I find …

Jessica Shen

22 Feb 2016

I’m interested in mapping airports and the departures from the airports and the amount of traffic at each time.  I think it’d be interesting to see how they change based on location, time differences, etc.

Along the same lines, I’d …

Jessica Shen

16 Feb 2016

 

I wanted to create some way to draw with sound.  I chose to work with processing to visualize sounds in a space.  My program takes in sound, picks out the loudest frequency, and creates points using that frequency.  The …

Jessica Shen

02 Feb 2016

An interactive art piece that  I Iove is Takahiro Matsuo’s White Rain (and his other works).  The piece is a light installation made of LED bar lights.  It creates a landscape of light that is reminiscent of rainfall.  When viewers …

Jessica Shen

02 Feb 2016

I really liked Irene’s twitterbot that tweeted images of where people were killed by police because the images were so serene, but because of the fact that you knew someone died there the meaning of the places changed.…

Jessica Shen

28 Jan 2016

  1.  Plotting on a map.

I used the data from “The counted” database.  I think that the year of 2015 was when police violence became especially prevalent in social media, and wanted to explore it.

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    For this first map, I used

Jessica Shen

28 Jan 2016

Youtube video:

Screenshot:

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After browsing through ofxAddons, I came across ofxFilterBank and ofxLight2D. I thought they were both really interesting at first, but didn’t think to put them together.  However, I spent some time mashing together random addons, and this …

Jessica Shen

28 Jan 2016

CupcakeBot:  https://twitter.com/cupcakeBots

Description:  CupcakeBot generates a random cupcake every few minutes.

 

I struggled a bit with finding something to make — I kept …