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Dataviz Tips, Tech Tips

What are Data Visualizations?

September 4, 2014 Professor Jack Gieseking

Data visualizations are visual representations of data, usually descriptive statistics. Dataviz, as they are often known, range from graphs to infographics, images to maps, social network analyses to scatterplots, and on and on. The .pdf below is a helpful 101 about how data visualizations work in terms of conveying and convincing. You will primarily be crafting spatial data visualizations, i.e. maps, in this course but it will be good for you to get a grasp on how data visualizations work more broadly.

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Links of Interest

Main/e & NYC Links of Interest

September 4, 2014 Professor Jack Gieseking

Websites, News, and Data Sources

The Atlantic City Lab http://www.citylab.com
The Atlantic Cities (2013 and previous) http://www.theatlantic.com/the-atlantic-cities/
Next City http://nextcity.org/

The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram http://www.pressherald.com/
The Portland Daily Sun http://www.portlanddailysun.me/
The Portland Phoenix http://portland.thephoenix.com/
Portland Magazine http://www.portlandmonthly.com/
Portland Monthly Magazine http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/
Maine Today http://mainetoday.com/
Munjoy Hill Observer http://www.munjoyhill.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=53
The West End News http://thewestendnews.com/
The Forecaster http://www.theforecaster.net/
The Bollard http://thebollard.com/about/

Portland, ME | Official Website http://www.portlandmaine.gov

Portland City Council Agenda Center www.portlandmaine.gov/AgendaCenter
City of Portland Council Common Goals 2014 www.portlandmaine.gov/DocumentCenter/View/3674
Portland, ME State & County QuickFacts http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/23/2360545.html
City of Portland GIS – Public Map Gallery http://click.portlandmaine.gov/GISPortal/
Geo Maine.gov DataShare Data Sets http://www.maine.gov/cgi-bin/data/data_search.pl?format=geo
Ctr for Workforce Research and Information www.maine.gov/labor/cwri/data.html
ME Dept of Ed Data Warehouse http://maine.gov/doe/dataresources/warehouse.html
Maine.gov DataShare Overview www.maine.gov/cgi-bin/data/index.pl
Maine.gov DataShare Data Sets http://www.maine.gov/cgi-bin/data/data_search.pl?format=raw
State Agency Data www.maine.gov/portal/data2/agency_list.shtml

Tech Meetups in Maine http://technology.meetup.com/cities/us/me/
Code for Maine (2014) https://dash.code4maine.org/

Code for Maine (2013) http://code4maine.org/#
Mapping the 2010 U.S. Census – NYTimes.com http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/map
Maine Civic Hack Day Portland, Maine June 2013 After Action Report http://startupportland.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Maine-Civic-Hack-Day.pdf
Code for Maine OpenTransit Project Wiki http://code4maine.org/opentransitprojects/
TechMaine Community Groups & Meetings http://www.techmaine.com/groups
Code for Maine/CfA Brigade Meetup (Topsham) http://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Maine/

NYTimes City Room http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/
NYTimes Bits Blog http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/
NYTimes Tech News http://www.nytimes.com/pages/technology/‎
NYC Open Data https://nycopendata.socrata.com/

Welcome to The Digital Image of the City Course Blog

September 1, 2014 Professor Jack Gieseking

As an educated citizen of the increasingly urbanized 21st century, how can technology produce better cities for the common good? This course will give you the background, skills, and space to produce critical thinking and suggestions to this question.

Welcome to The Digital Image of the City course blog.

Digital and Computational Studies INTD2430 with Jen Jack Gieseking