Bankruptcy by the Books: Visualizing Bankruptcy at the Seattle Public Library Between 2005 and 2010, use of the Seattle Public Library and guide books on personal law and bankruptcy reflect the financial instability and crisis throughout the United States. Do the transactions at the Seattle Public Library reflect the financial [...]
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Bankruptcy in Seattle
Here’s a new iteration on my Seattle library project. Here’s an earlier iteration and general information about this project. The visualization still has a ways to go, but I’ve established a clean foundation of code to drive it.
Bankruptcy Travel Guides
As I discussed in my post Digging for Bankruptcy, I have been exploring data from the Seattle public library. I’m looking at how the books checked out reflect the financial crisis over the past half-dozen years. I created a quick test, connecting Processing to the database of transactions to build [...]
Digging for Bankruptcy
I’m digging through historical records from the Seattle Public Library for information that reflects the financial crisis. It’s an exercise to learn about data mining and mySQL databases, but also a fascinating look at tiny footprints left behind during a global crisis. I began by searching for titles related to [...]