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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]