Tracing Pages Reflection
My reflection of my tracing pages essay.
Read moreMonth: November 2024
Sketch 8: Data viz from everyday life
For this sketch, I wanted to answer the following question: How much does exercise affect my productivity and well-being? To clarify, “Work Done” regards the amount of work I did after exercising, and “Distraction” measures how distracted I was while doing that work. Upon analyzing the data, I can confidently say that this sketch answered […]
Read moreSketch 8 – Science in English??? The World’s Gone Mad
As a political scientist researching the relationship between material conditions and human reaction, I immediately knew how to approach this Sketch assignment. It’s a perfect opportunity to turn my research inward and determine how much wealth impacts me personally as a motivating and limiting factor. I had two weeks to collect data. Although not the […]
Read moreThe Beat Balance: Music’s Role in Task Performance
General Observations Based on the patterns observed: Artists and Bands I mostly listen to: Aside from house music (a genre of EDM) artists, most of these musicians have songs with lyrics. When I say I listen to songs without lyrics, I mean I enjoy instrumental versions of songs that originally have lyrics. For example, I […]
Read moreSunday Sketch #7: Animals
My quadriptych is about a ironic conversation of two groups, one pair of farmers and a pair of cattle. The funny part of the comic is that while the human are trying to be empathetic with the death of farm animals, the animals view human’s empathize as a pity. This comic wants to emphasize that […]
Read moreMy Optimism Tracker
When do I feel most optimistic and how does that impact my day? From this assignment, I’ve uncovered some insightful conclusions about myself. Initially, my goal was to monitor my optimism, which I defined as how positive I felt about myself, the world around me, and my overall state of mind. I wanted to identify […]
Read moreSunday Sketch 8
For this sketch, I first determined that I wanted to investigate something related to my overall fulfillment in life. I thought about ways that certain parts of my life would affect that feeling of fulfillment, and I decided to focus on two parts: social interactions and flow-state activities. I collected data about many things related […]
Read moreSketch 8: Data viz from everyday life
When I began to collect my data, I wanted to know if I was living a properly balanced life. I wanted to find out if I was managing school, work, and social life effectively. I mainly wanted to see how this balance affected my stress levels and if my stress levels affected my hunger. After […]
Read moreSunday Sketch 7
In this Quadriptych, I tried to convey how easy it is to convert aspirations of a productive day into an unproductive day overall. Making a quadriptych was definitely more complicated than creating a triptych due to conforming a story into one extra panel, dragging it on longer rather than immediately getting to the punchline as […]
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