Ian Lemmon With Hobbies

Photo stories are stories told with photos which sounds pretty obvious but they are a little more complex than that. The writer may alter the images used to try and to convey a message they want the viewer to see. Photo stories can have little to no text accompanying the images or they can have paragraphs along with them. A photo story that I enjoyed looking at was " 12 Food Orders and the People Who Delivered Them ". This photo story shows a chain of images of delivery people in New York. A photographer named Young Jang conducted an experiment where she ordered food from a variety of restaurants and when her food was delivered she would ask to take a photo of the employee and ask a few questions relating to the customers they get. From this image alone I was able to see that they are a variety of people that are employed as delivery drivers in New York. Each image had a small amount of text with telling how old the employee was, where they are from, where they work, and...

I found this activity to actually be quite entertaining. I will say I did find it to be somewhat of a challenge, trying to find words that work together that are all on the same page. For mine I tried to say how the advancements of technology would take hold of the world but no matter how advanced the human race gets humanity still remembers its roots. For the design I was just randomly making connections and shapes, Then I used a different color to show in what order the words should read.

Distant reading is taking a large body of text or database and looking at it as a whole and finding patterns within the writing. I find distant reading to be more interesting than close reading and it reveals a lot of information. This information would be very difficult to find out without the use of the Voyant tool. Voyant can be used for a variety of data including articles, lyrics, and books for example. I have used Voyant before once for the book Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft and I found the data to be very helpful and revealing as well. This time however I am doing a distant reading of my own blog so it will be a little weird doing a distant reading on my own writing. The first thing that I look at after entering in the data I am performing the distant reading on is the word cloud as it tends to be the thing that pops out the most. A word cloud is a great visualization as it very easy to understand. From this, I can tell that my most used words are data and time. T...

Launch It visualization Data visualization is something that I have some interest in as it has a lot of design elements to it. These visualizations also attract the viewer more than just some data being presented. I take a digital tools class and we went into some data visualizations and we found some examples. The example I found to be most appealing was LAUNCH IT . This data visualization I found to be really cool. The data it is presenting is the locations you can purchase a book, at first I thought this is a lot of work just to show where you can buy a book. The book, however, is about being a designer and creating graphics and visualizations. What better way to promote your book about design than using an interactive data visualization to show where to buy said book. I played around with the LAUNCH IT for a little and it is very interactive and appealing. I think this a great example of a data visualization and also a great marketing strategy at the same ti...