2022 Fall
Documentary Resources Workflow
Workflow to pull moving images, videos, and clips from the Library of Congress (LOC) API to match a documentary theme...
Met Highlight Wikidata Project
Compare object records from the Metropolitan Museum of Art API with corresponding data from the Wikidata API...
Forsaken Bones
Uncovering forgotten histories of African American cemeteries in the United States...
WHCL FM What's Playing?
Webscraping tool to make a simple HTML list of songs being played ...
Fanfiction Folksonomy Case Study
Folksonomy development over time by recording freeform tags applied to fanfictions on Archive of Our Own (AO3) for Our Flag Means Death...
DSpace Translator
Python script translates the contents of a DSpace collection using google's translation API....
Plotting Discogs Data in Plotly
A starting point for visualizing music data from Discogs....
Exploring NYC's Dirties Restaurants
Ploting resturant datasets from the Deparment of Health and Mental Hygiene...
Is the Met becoming more Gender-inclusive?
Explore themes of inclusion and representation in culture, as reflected in the collections and acquisitions of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
2021 Fall
Contemporary Chinese Art Price Trends
Compiled 40 years of auction data to analyze and visualize...
Covid Vaccination Sentiment Analysis using Twitter Feed
Sentiment analysis of covid vaccination data using Twitter's api...
Nazi-Era Provenance Metadata and Linked Art Models
Examining the metadata available for Nazi-era Provenance paintings within The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Provenance Research Collection...
The State of Art in WIKIDATA (with a limit)
Attempt at a global survey of art work data in Wikidata…
What Users Want: Python for User Survey Data Analysis
Analyzing survey results from students and faculty at The New School…
2021 Spring
Harvard Art Museums Color Palettes
Web app that displays color palettes from objects at the Harvard Art Museum...
Video Game Sales: An Analysis
Exploring video game sales from different regions of the world...
Correlating Movie Genres and Dates
Investigating movie data to see if there are defining correlations between genres and release dates...
Understanding the Plants of Central Park
Mapping project that shows the locations and information about all of the plants in Central Park...
Filming New York
Exploring filming trends around the city using NYC Open Data’s Film Permits dataset...
ICON_bot: Visual Examples for Iconclass
Paring Iconclass notations with examples drawn from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam...
NYC Landmark Buildings
Analyzing the characteristics of landmarked buildings in New York City...
Orchid Fever in the American Press
Searching digitized historic newspapers for articles on orchid hunting published between 1881 and 1960...
Human and Python NGrams
A foundation for generating word clouds from JStor Data for Research...
2020 Fall
Timeline of Roosters at the Brooklyn Museum
A timeline of rooster images at the Brooklyn Museum...
NYC Reported Crimes Visualization
Explore criminal activity in New York City with criminal complaint reports from 2006 to 2019...
Songwriter:Re
Generative text project that uses python to remix Lorde lyrics pulled from a random assortment of 20 songs...
Weather Twitter Bots
Two companion Twitter bots that analyze weather patterns in Ithaca, NY...
Surreal Art Bot
A Twitter bot that creates new Surrealist works of art that don't exist...
Comparison of Male and Female Writers
Comparing the number of male and female writers born in the U.S. from 1900 to 2000 and the change of proportions...
Unforgotten Restaurants
Restaurants which have been temporarily or permanently closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic...
2020 Spring
Brooklyn Museum Cross Stitch Bot
A Twitter bot that would post cross-stitch patterns of objects in the Brooklyn Museum collection...
NYC Street Trees
Using python to find several insights regarding street trees throughout the NYC area...
Pratt listserv Work Opportunities
Analysis of the different types of work opportunities emailed out on the Pratt Institute School of Information listserv...
Just Keep Swimming
Tracking the movements of female Olive Ridley and Hawksbill Sea Turtles...
Building a Seed Library Catalogue
Web scraping and structuring a website that sells rare and historic seeds...
Parentage on Mount Olympus
Web scraping to illustrate the overlapping and contradictory parentages of the Greek gods...
Dungeons & Python
Python programming to create a 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons character generator...
21st-Century Collecting Trends
21st-Century Collecting Trends at The Met, Cleveland, and Harvard...
2019 Fall
Planned Construction and Airbnb
Analyzing and geospatially visualizing planned construction in New York City in terms of potential future Airbnb revenue...
Time Series of Stocks
Using the Yahoo Finance API to compare companies stocks for the last two year ...
Asian Restaurants Price Map
Mapping Chinese, Korean and Japanese restaurants and their prices in NYC...
Automated Image Classification and the Metropolitan Museum
Analysis of Google Vision, Amazon Rekognition, and Human generated tags for MET collections...
Mapping the 2018 Squirrel Census of Central Park
Explore data from the 2018 Squirrel Census of Central Park...
SAAM API Artists
Explores demographic data from the Smithsonian American Art API to illuminate the work of under represented artists...
Mapping NYC Music
Common artists listened to in New York, popular venues, streaming numbers and genres...
Lyrics Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis on the top 40 songs five artists - Drake, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, Ne-Yo, and Rihanna...
Hard to Count Populations & US Census
Exploring correlation between U.S. Census response rate and funding...
Duterte's Drug War
Examines data provided by the Columbia University School of Journalism's Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism...
Analysing sneakers sales in StockX
To understand the popularity, price stability and premium value of the Adidas Yeezy and Nike Jordan...
Pop science media & scholarly discourse
Bridging popular science media and scholarly discourse with linked open data...
2019 Spring
US Therapists
Analysis and visualization of therapist availability in the United States by state. ...
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives EAD
ArchivesSpace Repository Finding Aid: EAD XML to CSV ...
Mapping Pre-Prohibition Alcohol in Brookyln
Mapping distilleries, breweries and residences of brewers and distillers in Brooklyn in 1869, 1903 and 1912 ...
Human vs. Machine
Analysing human keyword tags to keyword tags provided by the Google Cloud Vision API ...
Top Songs Sentiment Analysis
Sentiment analysis on the lyrics of the top 20 songs for the last 10 years ...
Groundwater Contamination in Tennessee
Looking at the effect of coal ash contamination on groundwater in the state of Tennessee ...
MoMA's Collection: Gender & Artist Collectives
Analyze gender dynamics in MoMA's collections ...
2018
NYC Park Monuments
Pulls information from a publically available csv about New York park monuments and combine that information with data harvested from wikidata into a single file ...
Organizing Image Collections
Explores how Python may be used as a tool to create separate 100,000 photos into sub-collections ...
IMDB visualization
Use Python to get movie data from IMDB, from 1980s to present. And try to use that data to create a genre by year data visualization ...
Anxiety of Influence
Mapping and Visualization Project for Translations of Fantastic Literature into Spanish during the 19th-Century ...
Analyzing Changes in Citi Bike Trips after the Introduction of E-Bikes
Analysis on how Citi Bike trips have changed after Citi Bike introduced about 200 e-bikes on August 20th, 2018. ...
Stock Ticker Capital Appreciation Comparison
Visualize financial information in a more digestible way by non-tech savvy audiences ...
Exploring Chinese Traditional Medicine
explore the topic of Traditional Chinese Medicine to learn what is the most commonly used herb in all formulas ...
Some New Classics
Taking a close look at the NYRB Classics to understand the cultural makeup of this collection ...
Sentiment Analysis of “#gene_editing” tweets
Sentiment analysis for a twitter hashtag focused on CRISPR gene-edited twin babies ...
Scraping for Library Jobs
Scraping job postings from three popular professional associations' websites: ...
Images of the Solar System
This project uses APIs to collect image records of the solar system from cultural heritage and science institutions. ...
NYC HIV/AIDS Services and Facts Dashboard
This dashboard includes facts and figures related to HIV/AIDS data available through NYC Open Data ...
Web Scraping of Turner Paintings
Scraping the Tate Collection website for Joseph Mallord William Turner paintings ...
U.S. Documentaries, 1878 to 2017
Use data from IMDB to compare the growth of documentary versus non-documentary movies ...
Confronting Documentation of the US War on Terror
Takes existing metadata about US government documents collected by the nongovernmental organization the ACLU and re-presents it in new ways ...
2017
Hopper at the Theatre
This project investigates the cultural and theatrical landscape of Edward Hopper’s New York using linked open data (LOD) technologies ...
Time(s) Splitter
With Burroughs as inspiration, I chose to query the New York Times api as my resource much in line with Burroughs’s cut-up material of choice, the newspaper ...
contamiNation
Mapping data on lead contamination of United States public water sources ...
Spotlight on New York Vaudeville
Investigation of what elements may be of greatest interest to researchers using NYPL's performing arts database Ensemble ...
Endangered Plants of Westchester and Fairfield Counties
Creating a list of endangered plants through web scraping ...
Peshawar Scrapin'
Processing documents from CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room related to the Peshawar Seven ...
Documenting ICE
A tool to compile a central collection of records documenting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: FOIA requests, detention facilities, available government records, and resources ...
Visualizing the Paston Letters Network
Visualizing the Paston Letters Network displays the network generated between letter writers and recipients from the Paston Letters and Documents collection ...
Python and the Queer: Utilizing coding to analyze the American LGBTQ community through data and information
Exploration of python coding, in order to analyze what government and media information expresses about different aspects of the LGBTQ community ...
Failure to Communicate : Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy in Hip-Hop Cataloging
This project examines library cataloging practice versus user-generated metadata for hip-hop and rap music ...
Exploring Magic the Gathering (and Gathering) Data
Measuring aspects of the Magic the Gathering card game data ...
2016
Ghosts in The New York Times
For this project, I wanted to explore the coverage of ghosts and haunted houses by The New York Times ...
New York State Landmarks
For this project I chose to explore datasets related to historic landmarks in New York State ...
Monday Night Wars
"Monday Night Wars: Data From Wrestling's Golden Age" is a project that uses python programming and data visualization techniques to unpack and era of professional wrestling called "Monday Night Wars." ...
Mapping Brooklyn Historical Society
Webscraping and mapping the Brooklyn Historical Society's digital images collection ...
Mapping Alan Lomax
Using the metadata created by the Association for Cultural Equity, this project aims to create a world map, where Lomax’s career is visible for users to trace ...
Visualizing The Rijksmuseum
This project utilizes the Rijksmuseum API and the Getty Research Institute’s Union List of Artist Names Vocabulary (ULAN) to take a closer look at the museum’s collection ...
Boston MFA Tsuba Collection
Scraping and analysis of the online tsuba collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts ...
Wikidata Exploration
Exploring Wikidata Properties With the Linked Jazz Name Directory ...
Photography Of James Van Der Zee
A timeline of some of James Van Der Zee’s photographs ...
Repurposing Archival Metadata
Repurposing Archival Metadata with the Python CSV Writer ...
Lyric Analysis
Using web scraping to extract song lyrics from Azlyrics.com for analysis ...
2015
DBO:INFLUENCE
Investigation focused on particularly subjective properties in the DBpedia ontology: influences ...
Linnaeus Tripe’s Photography
Analysis of V&A’s collection of Linnaeus Tripe’s photography of South India and Burma (Myanmar) ...
Linked Jazz Meets Carnegie Hall
Connecting Carnegie Hall's performance data with Linked Jazz ...
Metropolitan Hall of Fame
Connect images, often artistic renderings of baseball’s earliest stars, with the official player statistics for the 310 people in the Hall of Fame ...
Land of the Free Music Archive
A network of artists found in The Free Music Archive connected via sonic properties ...
Python Radio
Exploration and analysis of online data about Old Time Radio (between 1920’s-early 1960’s) ...
Linked Open Data at the Whitney
Mapping Artists from the Permanent Collection (1931-1948) ...
Artists’ Books Holdings
An attempt to analyze and visualize data about artists’ books holdings on an international scale ...
Persian Manuscripts in Cultural Institutions
Analysis of Persian Manuscripts holdings in two museums ...
2014
Analyzing Modernism
Modern and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a data analysis and visualization capstone project ...
Tumblr Image Bot: a friendly social-media robot
Randomly-selected photo posts to Tumblr along with appropriate caption text and tags ...
JSON-LD for Cemetery Data
This project’s naissance was in the bottom shelves of a local history & genealogy department of a middling public library in Maine ...
NYT Timeline
This project is a timeline from 1915 to the present showing headlines with the words “birth control” from the New York Times. ...
Scraping & Analyzing Photography Auctions
I want to investigate the circumstances that have led to the establishment of photography as an "accepted high art form" and that conception's subsequent influence on the sales of photography at auction ...
Quipu: Chinese Exclusion Act
An attempt to build a dictionary of uniform metadata for primary sources on a single subject. It queries resources in digital archives and special collection to retrieve metadata ...
Spanish Artists Dictionary Project
The Spanish Artists Dictionary (SAD) is a reference source created by scholars at the Frick Art Reference Library. Originally a print publication, the dictionary was formatted as a Filemaker database in the early 1990s and made available through the Frick’s online research portal ...
Wiki Scrape
For my final project I data scraped the Harry Potter Wiki site and transpose that information onto a timeline, using Knightlab’s TimelineJS program ...