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.

Finished

Production Project B, Nhu Tran, u3025470







Rationle

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:

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...