by Rahul Bhargava | Jul 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
In public settings, it can be quite hard to get folks walking by interested in a data-driven argument about your cause. We often argue that a creative data sculpture can grab their attention. Like maybe a vegetable laser cut with some data about food security! We’ve...
by Rahul Bhargava | Apr 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
With colleagues at the MIT Center for Civic Media, I did a deep dive into the archives of the New York Times (via their annotated corpus). One of the results was a poster detailing the domestic vs. international coverage over the last 20 years. You can download a...
by Rahul Bhargava | Dec 13, 2004 | Uncategorized
Webcams are good for conversations, but they don’t offer either conversant any control over the field of view. To remedy this glaring oversight, I built a pan/tilt base for my webcam out of LEGO bricks. The person I was talking to on the other end could log into a...