By Ha Ta For anyone who is new to the city of Boston and has no 3G access on your phone, you can take advantage of Wicked Free Wifi, Boston city’s free wireless network. Use it to find your way or search for cool destinations in the City. According to the City of Boston’s website, … More Free Public Wifi Locations in Boston
By Ha Ta “Make It Stop”, an article from the Boston Globe’s opinion section, takes gun control – one of the most polarizing issues in the U.S. – and confronts the reader with data visualizations that induce shock and frustration using basic facts about the gun industry, gun violence and government action. The effect of this … More A Critique of “Make It Stop”
By Ha Ta “Seven Days of Heroin”, a project by the staff of the Cincinnati Enquirer, uses data visualization, pictures, audios and videos of heroin-related incidents, and orders personal stories into a continuous timeline over one week that emphasize the urgency of this epidemic and the frequency in which overdoses and deaths happen. Overall, the … More A Critique of “Seven Days of Heroin”
By Ha Ta “Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys” – a report from The New York Times – uses over ten visualizations to illustrate data from a landmark study revealing that black boys’ class mobility is worse than that of white boys. The greatest digital strength of this report is its … More Data Visualizations: To Use or Not to Use
By Ha Ta “All Work. No Pay.” by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting tells the story of convicts sent to work for free at a chicken processing plant in lieu of prison, and details the illegality and brutality of their treatment. The greatest strength of this piece is to familiarize the reader with … More A Critique of “All Work. No Pay.”
By Ha Ta “VICE News VR: Millions March” considers itself as the first-ever virtual reality newscast and Vice’s choice of event, the anti-police violence protests in New York City, allows the virtual reality form of storytelling to shows its strength. Protests at this scale in a big city like New York promise chaos, big crowds … More Walking Right into Reality on Your Device with Virtual Reality
By Ha Ta Maps abound in data visualizations for the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, but some of the best visualizations have focused on other visualizations strategies. In particular, The New York Times created a series of visualizations that break down what percentage of Americans vote Republican and Democrat over time for different groupings in Exit … More Election Coverage Critique
By Ha Ta “The Fine Line: Simone Biles Gymnastics” by The New York Times uses a series of soundless video and text to emphasize the extraordinary gymnastics talent of Simone Biles, a U.S. Olympic Gymnast. The article was able to showcase Biles’ skillful moves that define her as a gymnast prodigy and analyzing those moves … More A Creative Way to Tell Stories Using Video
“The Wall”, a project by Arizona Republic and USA Today, explores the possibility, cost and potential purpose of the U.S. Mexican border wall through the use of text, maps, video, audio and virtual reality. What I like about the project is that the information is presented in diverse media. This gives readers the chance to … More Critique of “The Wall”
Here are several skills I have learnt, and my observations, after completing the Codecademy HTML and CSS primer: I learnt how to create text, add pictures and videos with HTML, and how to style these using CSS. When you find yourself writing the same lines of CSS over and over again, you can and should … More What I have learnt from Codecademy’s HTML & CSS primer
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