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Content Creation Process // Part 1

March 29, 2015
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Building an online class library is not as simple a task as I had initially imagined it to be. There are so many details that relate to the young audience’s scholastic capabilities that differentiate such a platform from many other content-browsing and uploading sites out there. The trickiest issues I’ve encountered in creating an online class library for young students are: figuring out the balance between browsing content and creating content building a system for creating content that has been approved […]

Virtual Tour of Amphitheaters in Italy

March 23, 2015
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Mapping and Data Viz for the Ancient World

For this assignment, I’ll be creating a virtual tour of amphitheaters in Italy, and allowing the user to visit external links, such as Wikipedia to find out more information on the specific location. This will be put together using CartoDB and Odyssey.js. To do this, I will create a subset of data from the main dataset of Amphitheaters, turn that subset into a geoJSON file, upload it to CartoDB, clean it up and perhaps add […]

How To Build a Greenhouse

March 16, 2015
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I’ve been cooking with fresh spices since the day I learned to fry an egg. Nothing beats fresh basil as a topping for pizza, or snipped fresh coriander to dash a warm bowl of curry. The downside though of fresh spices, is if you buy them packaged from the supermarket, it only takes a few days in the fridge for them to start looking like this: So, it has been my dream for a while to build […]

Joining Joints

March 16, 2015
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Two weeks ago we were given the challenge to create joints that connect with one another. This might sound like a trivial task (it did to me in the beginning), but actually, it’s not. When creating pieces that are meant to fit together, it’s important to remember that even though in theory it makes sense that these two pieces will just naturally fit into one another, in reality they most likely will not.   Every […]

Book Reviews, Not Reports

February 23, 2015
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Over the past two weeks, Kim and I had some discussions on the structure of this project. The more we discussed “structure”, the more we realized that this entire project and it’s components are all built on structure. The system diagram I created illustrates that on a broader scope. As mentioned earlier, we see this site as an online class archive for books that have been read by the students and their reviews on them. […]

Playing With Amphitheaters

February 23, 2015
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Playful Communication for Serious Research

This past week Will, Hugo and I met with our research professor, Sebastian Heath, who has extensive knowledge on ancient amphitheaters, particularly from the time of the Roman Empire. The three of us are taking a data visualization course outside of ITP with Sebastian, at an institute that is part of NYU called ISAW (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World). We all have great chemistry working together, and our researcher/professor Sebastian is incredibly […]

Donut? Donut!

February 19, 2015
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Last Friday, Ben showed us an example of a project done on the CNC machine. He kept referring to as a donut. This is what it looked like: The more I kept hearing the word “donut”, the more I wanted to try to make one using the CNC machine. And here’s how I did just that.   Materials and Programs Before materials, I just want to mention that it’s great to work on this kind […]

The OtherMill

February 12, 2015
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This week I became familiar with “The OtherMill”, which is essentially a mini CNC machine. The OtherMill is great for small, precision work, and can mill pretty tough materials such as aluminium (which is what I milled this week). The Other Mill Became Ill My first trial on the machine did not go so well. Before I describe what went wrong, I’ll give a quick overview on how the machine works. The OtherMill is a routing […]

Building an Online Class Library // Research

February 9, 2015
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This week I made some important progress on the research side of the project. I don’t think it’s enough to build a final, flushed-out product, but it’s enough to get started with, and to start building wireframes in the next few weeks. Education Week Webinar This past Wednesday, I attended a webinar that was part of Education Week titled, “Deepening and Widening the Way We Teach Writing in K-5”. Some important points that were brought […]

Mapping Religion in Jerusalem

February 5, 2015
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Mapping and Data Viz for the Ancient World

It’s not secret to anyone that Jerusalem is a tense and intense city, especially when it comes to religion. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all see this city in some way or another as a place of significant religious importance. Will (my classmate) and I are interested to do research in this field and see if there is any way to quantify religious importance of these religions throughout the years. Since this is obviously a very […]