For my final project, I decided on creating a project proposal. As some of you may remember, I gave a short presentation in the last class about it. It was an application for a classroom library. I also did a short demonstration of the first iteration I made a few months ago. That version is […]

A little over a month ago I attended a Google Scholar workshop on what it is and how to create your profile. It was an eye-opening experience, mostly because it made me aware that I have absolutely nothing available to go on my profile! I’m still pretty young and new in the academia scene, so […]

With our final papers due within a week, I thought I might make a post about something that could be useful for anyone writing a project proposal. A big part about a lot of digital projects is the database. Representing that in a written format can be difficult, but luckily there is a way! I’m […]

As I’m sure many others can empathize with, this election hit me hard. Frankly, it’s scared my socks off and it’s still causing a few sleepless nights. I find myself staring at nothing, with these horrible thoughts running through my head. As a lover of all things political, this is supposed to be an enjoyable […]

For my project, I focused on the number of different crimes in New York City public schools. View the results of my project (including my blog post about it) at my website and view the Github repository with the resulting CSV files and Python script. Please leave any comment here. I’d love to have anyone with […]

Last week, we talked about data pertaining to the subway in class and I brought up that I work for New York City Transit myself. I’ve been meaning to write a short blog post about how to access the MTA API. A good amount of free data is available, including the actual arrival times for […]