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Updating project AiryLight -

AiryLight displays real time air quality data through kinetic light patterns projected on the ceiling.

It grabs that real time air quality data from airnow.gov, a well-maintained and reliable government website.

Thus it requires a webpage that scrapes airNow for air quality. The Arduino then reads that webpage for the value associated with air quality, and parses that value down to the Arduino. The Arduino then passes this value to the stepper motor...

Step 1: getting a server that will let me put a PHP file up.

- > Using the appFog server! Easy to install and use.

- > for the PHP file that reads from the U.S.'s airnow.gov website.

Hooray!

http://airylight.aws.af.cm/aqscraper.php

Code here:

github.com/aberner6/airyLight

More process pics. This project is about translating between a Processing sketch and a d3 page. There are many moments of checking that I'm getting the right data to flow between connections, of glitchy text displays, of console.logs and comparison screenshots.

#process #design process #processing #d3 #html/css #javascript #data visualization #glitch

Sometimes glitch happens.

#glitch #data art #data visualization #design process #art and code

Interesting point of view here. "Data is currency, and consumers are willing to hand over their information in exchange for “free or convenience,” Schneier said. Companies such as Facebook and Google want the data so that they can sell more stuff. Users hand it over to play games, to get email, or some other benefit. “I like to think of this as a feudal model. At a most fundamental model, we are tenant farming for companies like Google. We are on their land producing data,” he said." Also: "Lowering the cost of technical surveillance also transforms the actual act of surveillance itself, Schneier said. It's no longer just “follow the car,” but rather, “tell me everywhere the car has been for the past month,” Schneier noted. Surveilling a car in the past may have required five people, but technology means agents can track 3,000 cars without using any additional agents. Technology has changed the extents of what surveillance can do, and that can be worrisome." The issue in the above is, of course, then how do you sift through all of those cars' metadata and figure out where the information is - Which brings me to the other point here - that metadata is Us - what a statement! I can't say I agree because to me, it seems like metadata is the skeleton of Us. The emotions, the conversations we have in person, the thoughts we don't write on twitter or wherever else, those are the Meat of Us.

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Graphic design in exchange for learning d3 - skill /inspiration share Mondays with candiceheberer.com :)

#skillshare #dataviz #graphic design #inspiration #paper

Tactile data representation. Ball bearing moves along clock face so its users (intended for sight impaired) can feel the time.

Nice project by Jen Lowe.

Inspirational.

Very fun to continue working with Lucas Lind on his MOMA data visualization project - just added filtering and updating an info box on click -

#MOMA #archive #data visualization #interaction #teachingd3

On coding assignments

1. Try 2. Try again 3. Try again 4. Try again 5. Email me

#teachingd3

Working with my student Jean Heo on her project to visualize demolition data in Philadelphia and Camden.

We broke the work up into steps:

1. Get the shapefiles

2. Bring them into d3

3. Get the data for demolition. Format it properly - we only had street addresses and zip codes and needed latitudes and longitudes. We used a batch converter for ease.

4. Bring the csv into d3.

Code here.

#d3 #data visualization #maps #demolition #teachingd3

bit by bit Event Website

bit by bit joins seven renowned storytellers with seven leading technologists in teams of two and challenges them to make something new together. Additionally, Experiments in Digital Storytelling brings together prominent members of interaction design, product development, design thinking, as well as members of the media to serve as mentors to competing individuals.

#digital storytelling

Using Processing to convey an interactive exhibit design

I've been working on a Processing sketch where I can show various motions and interactions that are possible for an exhibit that we are designing at work at the SIDL.

The flexibility of using Processing means that I can adapt to changing concepts, images, scales, and desired interactions, as opposed to having to do a full-scale render each time we make a change.

The riffing and opening up of concepts is much quicker, allowing more people to get on the same page and add ideas before we come up with our final visuals.

#exhibit design #interactive prototypes

Working on visualizing the Cooper-Hewitt collection of objects and their associated colors with my student Lucas Lind.

Code here

#data visualization #cooper hewitt #teachingd3

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