I did a prototype for a course on information visualization. See it here: Crisis Coverage: Mapping Rohingya Stories Advertisements
Notes: Capta-ing Data
This week’s readings resonated with me because they addressed some of the issues I’ve been thinking about over the past…
Notes: The Information
The chapter, “To Throw the Powers of Thought Into Wheel-Work,” felt like an interesting account of Charles Babbage’s life and…
Notes: Scattered Notes on the Scatterplot
The history of the scatterplot by Michael Friendly and Daniel Denis was an interesting read in that it gave a…
Notes: Measuring Reality
In The Measure of Reality, Alfred W. Crosby interrogates the ways in which mathematicians, cartographers, and writers from 1250-1600 attempted…
Summer Tutorial News
I will be teaching a tutorial over the summer on the digital, Asia, and Activism! More details to come.
ACLA 2018 Conference Talk
I gave a conference talk at ACLA’s Annual Conference at UCLA this past weekend (3/30/2018-4/1/2018). I was in a seminar…
Event Recap: PAM 1/18/2018
I presented at the USC Pacific Asia Museum a week ago! Here’s a blurb: “Melissa Chan presented at the USC…
Notes: Cheating Lessons
For me, James M. Lang’s Cheating Lessons contextualizes the phenomenon of cheating in the classroom. It shows that cheating is…
Notes: New London Group & Weapons of Math Destruction
These two articles intersected most poignantly for me in terms of their description about the role of the school and…