Extracirricular Projects
These pages highlight some of my personal explorations with cartography and data visualization beyond projects assigned to me in formal coursework.
I built “Digital Humanities Experiment with iStat Data” with collaborators for a graduate seminar in Digital Humanities during my first year in the UCLA MAGIST program. For me it facilitated an experiment with "Time Series" or animated mapping using the ArcGIS Online framework.
I created “Mapping Pre-War Recording Hotspots for the DAHR” during my coursework at UCLA Extension. I used metadata from UCSB Library's Discography of American Historical Recordings to visualize the distribution of early twentieth century music recording hotspots around the world, as they appear in the discographic documentation of major companies like Columbia Records and RCA Victor. I gained access to this data through my employment at the library, where I have contributed to the DAHR and other Performing Arts audiovisual collections as a digitization technician since December 2022.
"Fantasy and Nightmare Mapping" shows the early stages of a worldbuilding process for an apocalyptic and fantastical role-playing game with great emphasis on space and place, in both design and gameplay.
"Strava-Derived Bicycle Heat Mapping" features images generated from my first experiment with Strava *.gpx route data; I plan to experiment more with the temporal element of these data.
