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Seeing a Twitter #Hashtag Spread

#CheeringForTheYankeesIsLike is a hashtag created by @mattsly the morning of October 26th. He submitted the following snarky message – ‘Go Phillies. #CheeringForTheYankeesIsLike hoping investment bankers get really huge bonuses of at least 8 figures‘ – hoping to entertain his friends, and possibly get others to participate. Matt had 182 followers at the time, not sizeable [...]

Seeing the Elections Buzz

I’ve been working feverishly on a news visualization, trying to capture the buzz and conversations happening within the comment spaces around news articles online. Am very excited at the direction this is heading. I’ve posted my earlier screen-captures a couple of weeks ago. Today I have some images from another part of the visualization – [...]

Visualization of User-Generated Comments on US Elections

Here’s a glimpse of a work-in-progress. A little project I’m working on (check out the live version) that takes user-generated comments from the LA-times Campaign ‘08 page into a visualization powered by processing. It looks something like this:

The background red/blue colors are directly correlated to the text => the more written about the democrats, the [...]

Processing connection (PC) to Bluetooth (BlueSMIRF)

During the past week we’ve been working hard on getting the two to talk in a stable manner. There were many hurdles along the way, but we’ve managed to get a very stable connection between our processing app (running on a PC) and the BlueSMIRF chip from sparkfun, which we connected to a microchip PIC [...]