According to all known laws
of aviation,
there is no way a bee
should be able to fly.
Its wings are too small to get
its fat little body off the ground.
The bee, of course, flies anyway
because bees don't care
what humans think is impossible.
Flourish Studio is a web-based data visualization tool born out of developers Duncan Clark and Robin Houston’s desires to create a visualization tool easily accessible and usable for non-coders. After creating a free account (with paid options available), users of Flourish gain access to dozens of templates for data visualization, from simple bar graphs to […]
Team PLM: Mike Kombate, Diana De La Paz, Gaby Lazo Progress Since our last blog post, our group has worked hard to develop a clearer theme to visualize with our project. We want to focus our project on a specific piece of media we found in the archives: “Carleton Today,” a film reel taken sometime […]
For my midterm, I decided to geolocate the photos taken by Cushman and create an interactive map showing the subject types, photo density, and relevant US Parks service data. Check the map out at the page below!
ArcGIS, with its mystical mapping powers and data-sharing capabilities allowed me to create my map. The map lies at the intersection of three very important things for any New Yorker (I would assume — I’m from CA): squirrels, subways, and and themselves. The map clearly and artistically displays the count and color of squirrels habituated […]
The first website I ever created was a gaming website, as in it was a website wherein I inserted as many Miniclip game plug-ins as I possibly could and then declared myself the true Miniclip. It was 2010, I was 9 years old, and people theoretically still used MySpace. I cannot remember the URL (nor […]
Coding is our future. No matter how I try to work around that statement or spin it to find a counterargument, nothing can truly contest that fact. And it is a fact — not just in terms of our futures as members of the work force, but as members of a world whose various disciplines […]
Francis Bacon, esteemed Elizabethan philosopher, father of empiricism, and notorious pain in my rear during my 10th grade AP European History class, undoubtedly left his legacy in history. However, his place in early modern British society — particularly within his connections to other notable figures of the era— serves as the lens through which anyone […]
The cultural primacy of making, especially in tech culture—that it is intrinsically superior to not-making, to repair, analysis, and especially caregiving—is informed by the gendered history of who made things, and in particular, who made things that were shared with the world, not merely for hearth and home. Debbie Chachra, Why I Am Not a Maker […]
How easy/hard was it? While my gut instinct is to lament about how much time it took to learn and how difficult it was to master the finicky tools, the program itself is actually incredibly beginner-friendly. Even though there’s a distinct learning curve consisting of constantly making and remaking rectangles, each tool is easily labelled, […]
