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Data Visualization // Wikipedia Recent Changes Channel
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test_03.jpg I spent the summer of 2009 interning at Stamen Design. One of my projects for the summer was a series of explorations using the information from Wikipedia's Recent Changes IRC channel. The channel posts real time updates and changes to the entirety of Wikipedia as they happen.
Data Visualization // War in Film
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test_03.jpg SCHOOL WORK. This viz is from a class project. Using Processing it scrapes IMDB for films labeled with the genre "war." It takes the data, plots out each movie to the year it was created and draws a line back to the war it is about.
Data Visualization // War in the New York Times
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test_02.jpg SCHOOL WORK. In the same war vein as the previous project, I used Processing and the New York Times API to collect the number of mentions of major American wars of the 20th century over the course of the last 20 years (they only have archives posted from 1981 on). I then printed that information to a 42x30" poster. The y-axis is number of mentions which is printed on the poster at 12 pt. These numbers are legible when you approach the poster but only appear as white tips from far away (or when the poster image is small). The x-axis is time in months. Each colored bar corresponds to a different war.
42 x 30" poster
Storm Clock
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test_02.jpg SCHOOL WORK. For one of our interactive studios, we were tasked with writing a series of clocks in Processing. This clock doesn't tell time in a straightforward way. At the top of every minute lightning strikes (screen flashes yellow and white) and you can tell the hour by counting the seconds until the thunder hits (thunderclap sound plays). The minutes are denoted by a black bar of hash marks. As the marks approach the end of the screen, the minutes approach the end of the hour.
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