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Winter quarter in the bookstacks

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Apologies for a silent winter quarter– the graffiti project tends to slide towards hibernation in the winter in general (I took no pictures at all in winter ’09), and it was compounded this year by heaps of stress and moving. Fear not, though, I still went to the stacks weekly, so let’s catch up on [...]

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A pseudo-scientific analysis of the graffiti, with disclaimers for the pedantic

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

About a month ago, I was invited to put together a guest post for Inkling Magazine, and the resulting pseudo-scientific analysis of the graffiti is now up! The “analysis” considers: Happiness, as measured in the ratio to smiley faces to frowny faces Love vs. hate, with a spiffy Venn diagram of the objects of the [...]

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Crescat Graffiti: The Word Cloud

Monday, January 18, 2010

After a couple weeks of off-and-on data entry, I’ve finally put together a Google Docs spreadsheet with all the text from the Reg graffiti collection, and a brief description of all the doodles. More data crunching is coming in the days ahead, but I’d like to start things off with a couple quick-and-flashy word clouds, [...]

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Crescat Graffiti: The Data Set

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Until recently, I’ve thought of Crescat Graffiti as an art/anthropology project, and it never occurred to me to treat it as a data set. But now that’s what I’m doing as part of putting together a guest post for a science magazine. I love a good data set, but in the process of making it [...]

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