http://nt2101.blogspot.com/2008/10/im-ing.html
http://nt2101.blogspot.com/2008/10/l337.html
http://nt2101.blogspot.com/2008/10/production-project-b.html
Rationale
For Production Project B, I choose to do option one, Data Visualisation. I chose to visualise two images, 1) my current music library, and 2) my music trends over the last five years. The project was quite simple: chose a design, collect data, and then display it.
Design
I had spent a while researching on the internet for a program that was collect data from iTunes and then produce it into a visualisation, however, could not find any that would display the data the way I had wanted it. I then found wordle, the application was “a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.” (http://www.wordle.net/). Soon after playing around on it, I found that it was not that useful for the type of visualization I wanted.
Collection
The current data was collected through my iTunes database and iPod. The second images were collected by comparing the music on my old computer and my current. The data was composed by entering the data in to excel file and then producing figures and charts.
Display
The formatting of the project was based on Nicholas Feltron’s Annual reports. This visualisation section of the assignment was produced through Photoshop CS3. Very simple. The sizes of the images were 1440x900. I had used brushes and texts to display the information and also making it look more appealing.
I had spent a while researching on the internet for a program that was collect data from iTunes and then produce it into a visualisation, however, could not find any that would display the data the way I had wanted it. I then found wordle, the application was “a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.” (http://www.wordle.net/). Soon after playing around on it, I found that it was not that useful for the type of visualization I wanted.
The current data was collected through my iTunes database and iPod. The second images were collected by comparing the music on my old computer and my current. The data was composed by entering the data in to excel file and then producing figures and charts.
The formatting of the project was based on Nicholas Feltron’s Annual reports. This visualisation section of the assignment was produced through Photoshop CS3. Very simple. The sizes of the images were 1440x900. I had used brushes and texts to display the information and also making it look more appealing.
really really bored: l337
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i've been very stressed these few days. too much assessment. The pass few lectures that i have been going to were very interesting. for example, the API lecture. i didn't know that type of programs existed. The flickr api's interested me the most.
This blog will be written in leet
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i've been very stressed these few days. too much assessment. The pass few lectures that i have been going to were very interesting. for example, the API lecture. i didn't know that type of programs existed. The flickr api's interested me the most.
production project B
i've been researching around for different forms of data visualisation. http://mashable.com/2007/05/15/16-awesome-data-visualization-tools/ There is alot of interesting formats and programs in which i could do my assignment in.
after a while searching i found wordle.net.
"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."
i think i will will do my assignment using wordle. The following is a visualisation of the artists/bands in itunes:
after a while searching i found wordle.net.
"Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."
i think i will will do my assignment using wordle. The following is a visualisation of the artists/bands in itunes:
IM-ing
Messenger proves six degrees of separation
August 05, 2008 09:41am
A SOCIAL graph derived from billions of instant messages validates folklore that there are about six degrees of separation between any two strangers on the planet.
A research team at US software giant Microsoft studied 30 billion instant messages sent by 240 million people in June of 2006 and determined that, on average, any two could be linked in 6.6 steps.
"We've been able to put our finger on the social pulse of human connectivity - on a planetary scale - and we've confirmed that it's indeed a small world.'' Microsoft researcher Eric Horvitz said.
"Over the next few decades, new kinds of computing applications, from smart networks to automated translation systems, will help make the world even smaller, with closer social connections and deeper understanding among people.''
A SOCIAL graph derived from billions of instant messages validates folklore that there are about six degrees of separation between any two strangers on the planet.
A research team at US software giant Microsoft studied 30 billion instant messages sent by 240 million people in June of 2006 and determined that, on average, any two could be linked in 6.6 steps.
"We've been able to put our finger on the social pulse of human connectivity - on a planetary scale - and we've confirmed that it's indeed a small world.'' Microsoft researcher Eric Horvitz said.
"Over the next few decades, new kinds of computing applications, from smart networks to automated translation systems, will help make the world even smaller, with closer social connections and deeper understanding among people.''
Mr Horvitz and colleague Jure Leskovec estimated that the Microsoft Messenger chats they studied amount to half of the instant messages sent worldwide in June two years ago.
The researchers stressed that they were not privy to the contents of messages and that information indicating people's identities was removed.
"Messenger data gives us a unique opportunity to study distances in the social network,'' the researchers wrote in a paper detailing their work.
"To our knowledge, this is the first time a planetary-scale social network has been available to validate the well-known '6 degrees of separation' finding.''
The "6 degrees of separation'' premise stems from an oft-cited 1969 study by Stanley Milgram and Jeffrey Travers.
Mr Milgram and Mr Travers asked nearly 300 people in the US state of Nebraska to send a letter to someone in Boston through acquaintances.
People were considered one degree apart from a friend, two degrees away from a friend's friend and so on.
While most of the letters didn't make it to the designated recipient, those that did arrived with an average of 6.2 degrees of separation from senders.
The results were not considered scientifically reliable, but inspired a play, a film, a game, and a charitable sixdegrees.org website launched by actor Kevin Bacon in 2007.
"We used a population sample that is more than two million times larger than the group studied earlier and confirmed the classic finding,'' Mr Horvitz and Mr Leskovec concluded.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24130825-5014108,00.html
August 05, 2008 09:41am
A SOCIAL graph derived from billions of instant messages validates folklore that there are about six degrees of separation between any two strangers on the planet.
A research team at US software giant Microsoft studied 30 billion instant messages sent by 240 million people in June of 2006 and determined that, on average, any two could be linked in 6.6 steps.
"We've been able to put our finger on the social pulse of human connectivity - on a planetary scale - and we've confirmed that it's indeed a small world.'' Microsoft researcher Eric Horvitz said.
"Over the next few decades, new kinds of computing applications, from smart networks to automated translation systems, will help make the world even smaller, with closer social connections and deeper understanding among people.''
A SOCIAL graph derived from billions of instant messages validates folklore that there are about six degrees of separation between any two strangers on the planet.
A research team at US software giant Microsoft studied 30 billion instant messages sent by 240 million people in June of 2006 and determined that, on average, any two could be linked in 6.6 steps.
"We've been able to put our finger on the social pulse of human connectivity - on a planetary scale - and we've confirmed that it's indeed a small world.'' Microsoft researcher Eric Horvitz said.
"Over the next few decades, new kinds of computing applications, from smart networks to automated translation systems, will help make the world even smaller, with closer social connections and deeper understanding among people.''
Mr Horvitz and colleague Jure Leskovec estimated that the Microsoft Messenger chats they studied amount to half of the instant messages sent worldwide in June two years ago.
The researchers stressed that they were not privy to the contents of messages and that information indicating people's identities was removed.
"Messenger data gives us a unique opportunity to study distances in the social network,'' the researchers wrote in a paper detailing their work.
"To our knowledge, this is the first time a planetary-scale social network has been available to validate the well-known '6 degrees of separation' finding.''
The "6 degrees of separation'' premise stems from an oft-cited 1969 study by Stanley Milgram and Jeffrey Travers.
Mr Milgram and Mr Travers asked nearly 300 people in the US state of Nebraska to send a letter to someone in Boston through acquaintances.
People were considered one degree apart from a friend, two degrees away from a friend's friend and so on.
While most of the letters didn't make it to the designated recipient, those that did arrived with an average of 6.2 degrees of separation from senders.
The results were not considered scientifically reliable, but inspired a play, a film, a game, and a charitable sixdegrees.org website launched by actor Kevin Bacon in 2007.
"We used a population sample that is more than two million times larger than the group studied earlier and confirmed the classic finding,'' Mr Horvitz and Mr Leskovec concluded.
http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,24130825-5014108,00.html
the week that was....
this weeks lecture was very interesting, data visualisation. it was interesting that data could be constructed so visually such as films and could have 'instant replays', lol.
i might do project B on this topic A, Data visualisation or B, photographic tour. the two topics will be interesting when i get a start on the assignment...
i might do project B on this topic A, Data visualisation or B, photographic tour. the two topics will be interesting when i get a start on the assignment...
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