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Nt1330 Unit 3 Assignment

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The topic of my colleague’s schema focuses on discovering the great public art pieces throughout the globe, such as the city buildings, local landmarks, and so on. Since the concept of public arts is somewhat broad, I mainly collect the data of those well-known sculptures in divergent cities. At the beginning, the process of collecting the accurate mobile survey data for someone else’s schema was quite challenging. As knowing what the founder actually wish to include in his data is the first puzzle to resolve, I searched dozens of sculptures through the world in order to filter for the best ten options. In addition, I borrowed from my own experiences to try to maximum recall the sculptures that I have seen before in different areas. However, the data itself should be more objective …show more content…

During creating the map, first thing needs to be aware is that the accuracy of the data. As data serves as a fundamental role in the map-making, the columns’ names, information, numbers are all needed to be precise and matched. During transferring the data from the mobile app into the CartoDB platform, the CVS file has to be correct with all the names in different columns. At the beginning, the addresses of city and country names mixed up for some reason, and they eventually confused all the map input information. Owing to this reason, all the symbols and locations stuck to wrong locations, which needed to be fixed at the end. Furthermore, the lecture mentions that code is a technological practice that shapes the space, which strongly reflects on the map too. For instance, while I was making the symbolizations and icons for the map, each symbol represented one place, and they are supported by the code behind it. Therefore, all the codes, data, and maps are interacted, and it shapes the modern map to become more digital and

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