Feminism was named as the word of year for 2017 by the Merriam-Webster dictionary. The online searches for the word, feminism, has exponentially increased by 70% compared to the previous year in 2016. Searches for the term found its largest spike following up to the Women’s March in January. The most recent anniversary of the Women’s March has inspired me to extract data that includes similar phrases like ‘feminism’ or ‘feminist’ from the Seattle Public Library (SPL) database. I am exploring specific checked-out items that contains these similar phrases in the title. My objective is to explore whether or not the rising popularity of feminism have made a direct impact to the items being checked-out in the Seattle Public Library.

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I was inspired by the Tableau format. I mapped out the skeleton of the template by measuring the pixels.

My work was inspired by Rodger's 2D tutorial from our class discussion. I implemented the top 10 checked-out items about feminism from 2006 to 2018.

The first image is in black and white and the second image is in color. I implemented the keyPressed function for users to be interactive. If users press '0', the image is in black and white. If users press '1', the image is in color.

All work is developed within Processing
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