Ali and I will presenting our paper 4 Hours to Smash the CS Stereotype and Create Something Beautiful (pdf) at the upcoming CICE Education conference in Toronto. Christine Alvarado of Harvey Mudd college came to Google last month to gave a talk on how they'd brought female enrollment in Computer Science up to 42%. The talk is called "Three Promising ...
For a while, I've been wanting to make something that explores color in photo sets. Reading Beautiful Visualization (Amazon), I came across the perfect way to arrange the elements. It imitates the layout of the sunflower seeds, "the most efficient and visually mesmerizing way of packing small elements into a large circle". I decided to try ...
When I left Ottawa, I had to find the new me to run my Processing Workshop. His name is Ali and he's awesome. He's had the idea to write up the ideas into a paper, so we're working on that at the moment, but it occurred to me that I didn't write much about it ...
Continued on from Part 5, exploring what they are saying using the Phrase Net visualization from Many Eyes. Each image is a link to the applet where you can explore the text and interact with it. Change the linking word on the left - I've used space, but "and" or "is" in particular could be enlightening. I ...
Continued on from Part 4, exploring what they are saying using Word Trees on Many Eyes. Each image is a link to the applet where you can explore the text and interact with it. Change the word in the top left corner to change the root of the tree. Alex Howard Alfred Hermida Andrew Keen ...
In which we answer the question - what are they saying? I've split the tweets up into two types - at replies, and not at replies, and a third which contains all tweets. I've created wordles of each one, for each of the 20 people we were following. If you haven't - check out wordle.net. It's awesome. There's ...
Continued on from Part 2, I'm representing similar data in a different (less exciting) way. Before, we looked at how the activity on the twitter streams was spread out over the day and by different types of interaction. Here, I'm using charts to show the breakdown for the day, by user. I've also created charts for ...
After breaking down the overall types of tweets from people, next step was to create scatter plots of their activity. Unfortunately, Excel will only plot 250 data points - how unreasonable! Luckily I love breaking Excel and coding something that will do what I want it to do and look prettier, so voila. Color scheme: Is directed at ...
I've been a little quieter than usual for a number of reasons, one of which is that I've been working on a workshop for the University. It's aimed at getting 17-18 year olds interested in taking Computer Science, and I'm using Processing for that. I'm experimenting with what I'm calling an Activity Based Curriculum. I.e. rather ...
I'll be getting together with a couple of friends JP and Dwayne for a "Processing Jam" on Tuesday January 5th, at 6pm. What's a Processing Jam? We're going to make stuff. With Processing. Why? Because that list of projects in our head that we'll "do some day, when we have time" is never going to happen until we make ...
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