Data Visualization Design Project
By Kenyon Geetings
Final presentation made for Central College's DATA310 class "Data Visualization"
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Fall, 2023
Final presentation made for Central College's DATA310 class "Data Visualization"
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Compilation of analyses made for Central College's DATA310 class "Data Visualization"
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While some believe that greatness is either something provided to them, or something that they are born with, that would be a disservice to Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla where passiveness had nothing to do with his greatness. Miguel Hidalgo, also known as [...]
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There is no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic brought about a significant amount of change to the way that the world works today. One major change concerns the credibility of social media as a news platform. One particular site, Twitter, quickly became the hotbed for debate around the spread and origin of COVID-19. With one of the main selling points of Twitter being the ability to [...]
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Bix Bouton is Jennifer Egan's main character who isn't actually the main character in her novel The Candy House. While it would certainly be challenging to create this story without our character Bix, he's really only a conduit for setting up the story as well as providing us something to circle, or spiral, back to near the end for an attempt at closure. In order to present Bix as the semi-rounded character that Egan developed, we must first [...]
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While at a surface level the reason for rebellion between Túpac Amaru II and his followers against the colonial state might seem easy to explain, I would argue that the justifications for this uprising was more nuanced than one might expect. Like any good rebellion, the reasons for war were multifaceted by nature. What started out as [...]
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While certainly not the most common design pattern, the observer pattern has revolutionized the way that our online world works today, and is the basis for some of Java UI’s core keyboard and mouse event listener components. In order to understand what the observer pattern does, one must first understand what design patterns are [...]
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While it's often thought that Cortez and Pizarro were able to conquer the Incas and Aztecs fairly easily because of the deadly diseases they brought with them, I would argue that in addition to the diseases it was really the incompetence of the Inca and Aztec leaders, accompanied with the magnificent timing, leadership, and advanced technology of these attacks that really helped secure these victories. To attempt to explain these wins [...]
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While many people believe that the Aztec-Mexica's large-scale human sacrifices were nothing more than a sacrifice to the gods, I would argue it was much more simply the fact of self-preservation and their unwavering belief that these sacrifices kept them alive. At first glance it may seem counterintuitive to focus on these gory practices instead of focusing on their everyday ways of life, but to misrepresent the religion of the Aztec culture would be to overlook [...]
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Wow, this dude walks fast. Ever since I got married to my husband, my motivation to visit the gym was close to none, and it was clearly catching up to me now. This was all I was able to concentrate on as I did my best at an indiscreet power walk through the alleyway. I made a mental note that I needed to make it to the gym next week, then returned focus to the more important predicament on hand. It was mission-critical that [...]
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Thirty-three. Obviously thirty-three is a lot, or a little, depending on context. Thirty-three words in a blog? That's only thirty-three percent of this first paragraph! Thirty-three hot dogs? Well, again, context matters. If you're Joey Chestnut in a hot dog eating contest, then it's nothing. If you're like me and think that while they are a taste sensation [...]
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Proving oneself: a task that has confronted humans since the beginning of time. Whether you believe in the Bible, where Adam and Eve ate the apple so that they, too, could be just as good as God, or whether you believe in evolution, where humanity evolved to become more skilled in our abilities on earth, the world can unanimously agree that proving one's capabilities or skills is crucial to how we live on earth. Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles certainly agrees [...]
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TRUTH. What is it? One might conjecture that it is simple. Truth is what we know to be true, it is what actually happens in accordance with reality. While this definition offers a great foundation, Edgar Allan Poe plays on this assumption in his story “The Murders in the Rue Morgue.” An argument can be made that there are two types of truths [...]
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