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:

latimes-processing.jpg

The background red/blue colors are directly correlated to the text => the more written about the democrats, the bluer it gets, etc…

This is how the original comments page looks like on the LA times site:

latimes-web.jpg

This is a work in progress, so any comments, ideas or thoughts would be more than welcome.

[tags] visualization, processing, elections, US, comments, news, latimes [/tags]

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