Tagging Teenie is a tool to help the Carnegie Museum of Art add metadata tags to their database of images taken by historic Pittsburgh photographer Teenie Harris. The database contains over 60,000 digital images and serves as one of the …
Author Archives: Paige Pritchard
RPS (visualizing my anxious brain)
I’ve been diagnosed with anxiety, depression and OCD since I was 12. At this point, I’ve spent enough time navigating the ringer of figuring out the right levels of medication, therapy, and self-care that I consider myself a bonafide well-adjusted …
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I’m one of the students working on the Teenie Harris archive for the Carnegie Museum of Art. The archive contains 80,000 photos (only 50,000 of which are digitized at the moment) taken by Teenie from the 1930’s to the 1970’s.…
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ABSTRACT: The “environment” I’d like to visualize for the Map/Environment/Landscape/Visualization project is my own personal head space. Although this location is abstract, I personally regard it very much so as a physical space (as the term “head space” implies). This …
Line Toss: A Drawing Game of Catch
My drawing project went through multiple iterations during its many stages of development, but eventually ended up in a place very similar to my initial design for it. If anything, I think this project taught me that sometimes it’s ok …
Paige-Gauntlet Classmate Commentary
I was really impressed with Shouvik’s map visualization of drone strike data. I think it was incredibly successful at communicating why people should care about the data through mapping the drone strike locations then providing imagery of where they’re …
Paige-LookingOutwards-4
I’ve been finding a lot of fun work on the prosthetic knowledge tumblr lately. For this looking outward, I found a pair of projects that explore the body as a canvas (and technology as the artistic medium).
The first project, …
Birdbot
Twitter Bot
I enjoyed the Twitter bot element of the assignment the most. Not necessarily because of the specific bot that I produced, but because I’d never worked with node.js before and found it fairly straightforward. I followed Daniel Shiffman’s …
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After reviewing the readings for this week, I found that I spent the most time scrolling through the Twitter feed of @ANAGRAMATRON. This bot finds and stores tweets until it locates an anagram of that tweet, whereupon it then publishes …
Paige Pritchard
19 Jan 2016
ProPublica’s data page has been a frequent favorite of mine for hard-news related map visualizations. I think they’re doing a great job at displaying data they glean via investigative reporting techniques in ways that will help simplify the complexity of …