Unlocking Python's Power with the DRI By Annapia Borraccino DRI Participant, Winter 2024 “Coding can’t be that hard, you just need to practice it.” This was my ma […]

The current occupant of the White House lies nearly every time he communicates with the American people. We need to document his lies so that it never becomes ‘normal’ for our politicians to speak with us this […]

American Behemoth: Our Trillion-Dollar Healthcare System

When I first conceived of this project, I came at it from a conversation with a close friend of mine about how her own friend visited nine doctors, and […]

When we hear about Medicare for All, proponents of the policy are talking methods of paying to take care of our health. One of the reasons that Medicare for All is being put forth is that healthcare in the U.S. […]

Efforts to provide access to clean water have been ongoing since the beginning of civilization. In the United States however, the industrial revolution which led to a boom in population and pollution is what […]

I’m a bit of an avid reader, or so I thought before I undertook this project—when I pulled my Goodreads data, I was shocked to see that there were significantly fewer books than I remembered reading. I’ve been […]

Weekday observations of tourists taking photographs of the Empire State Building offer evidence that I am not a tourist; I work here.

Audience:   I am the
primary audience for this data set and v […]

Exploring the Data
Earlier in 2019, A large study was released regarding coffee consumption and its health benefits and risks. Research of 347,077 subjects showed that 5 cups of coffee a day is in fact, the magic […]

After Pin-up feedback, I’ve updated the visualization to incorporate the following items: 1) Lead with the main point about the hiring of Felix.2) Consolidate complaint types into fewer categories.3) Use few […]

Over the past few years, the De Blasio administration has taken a special interest in addressing New York City’s homeless population via outreach methods,

Over the past few years, the De Blasio a […]

Throughout history, there have been many epidemics that have plagued the populous of great cities. One example of such a pandemic has been the AIDS virus. AIDS, otherwise defined as Acquired Immunodeficiency […]

DHUM 73000 – Fall 2019 – Blog Post 1

Research Question: Did the number of tenant complaints regarding building maintenance issues change after our new super was hired?

Audience: Tenants in our building […]

There might not be a Netflix original series about it, but organizing our digital life is today at least as important as organizing any other aspects of our life—if not more. It can be, in many ways, trickier: w […]

Last month, I led a workshop for the GC Digital Initiatives on “Getting Started with TEI.” For those who don’t know, TEI (short for Text Encoding Initiative) is a method for encoding, or “tagging,” texts in such […]

Introduction

This is Part 2 of a two-part blog post series exploring the efforts of 3 urban-based community wireless networks (CWNs) – NYC Mesh, Equitable Internet Initiative (Detroit), and PeoplesOpen.net […]