Nature of code Final

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For my Nature of Code Final, I went on working on the website for my thesis; Drawing well being. The central purpose of my project is to raise awareness about well-being and development by visualizing data from the United Nation’s … Continue reading

Madame Bovary; Embroidered Punctuation.

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Over the semester I’ve been working with ​​translation; how with the same text translated into different languages I could create a new one, playing around with its sound and meaning. For the final assignment for my Reading and Writing Electronic … Continue reading

Bicolor / rwet midterm

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Bicolor is a bilingual poetic form that uses color adjectives in order to relate a sentence in French followed by one in Spanish. In order to do that, Python calls 2 sources of text; the same text but translated into … Continue reading

Nature of code midterm

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For my Nature of Code class I’m going to work in part of my thesis project. The idea is to raise awareness about well-being and development by visualizing data from the UN’s Human Development Report. The visualizations will be presented … Continue reading

Ella la bella

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For the second assignment in Reading & Writing Electronic Text I continued on working with the same text input I used before; Madame Bovary. This time the idea is to take the lines where the word she appears, randomize them … Continue reading

Une autre Bovary

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For the first assignment for my RWET class, we were asked to create a program that takes a text as input, and output a version that has been filtered and/or munged. I took the french version of Madame Bovary by … Continue reading

Talk to me / critique

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Talk to Me, a design exhibition focusing on the communication between people and objects at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, brings all things techy into the gallery space. The exhibition is “featuring a variety of designs that enhance communicative … Continue reading

Interaction Design/Readings

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1. Emotional Design: Why We Love or Hate Everyday Things, Donald Norman. In the book Emotional Design, the author, Donald Norman, describes 3 levels of design; Visceral (appearance), Behavioral (The pleasure and effectiveness of use) and Reflective (Self-image, personal satisfaction, … Continue reading

APP/amyloid beta (A4) precursor protein

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This gene encodes a cell surface receptor and transmembrane precursor protein that is cleaved by secretases to form a number of peptides. Some of these peptides are secreted and can bind to the acetyltransferase complex APBB1/TIP60 to promote transcriptional activation, … Continue reading

Data Rep. The rising cost of food

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This is the assignment for Week 3 of Data Representation: “Let’s see what you can do with your newfound CSV skills. Pick a data set from the Guardian Data Store and create a simple, static visualization.” I picked the data … Continue reading