Apr 06::
Before Class:
Read:
- Johnny Ryan, How the Atom Bomb Helped Give Birth to the Internet
Do:
A2b continued:
- continue with your exhaustive list of observable elements, and your consideration of how to turn your observations into data types that Processing can understand. Set up a login with Nature's Notebook so you can see the types of data collected by the phenology network here
- work out some basic visuals that can correspond to this data, how can lines, shapes, sizes and colors be drawn by data?
- take a stab at loading some data from a CSV file into Processing. keep it simple (unless you're Colin).
A2c:
Do some research on representations of natural ecosystems. Find 5 visual examples of representations that you feel do an excellent representing how resources change and flow through a variety of species. Write a blog post about your findings. Include the links or images in your post so we can see what you have found. In your analysis, share what you feel is working and not working about these visualizations. What would you do differently?
zip up all class work and label A2b-c_lastname_firstname.zip
In class:
Discuss
- networks, resiliency
- Look at Phil Ross & Future Farmers
Studio time
- Work on elaborating A2b & c.
- download cca_data.zip and try adding your own csv file, new parameters, etc.