Pedro Sotomayor's Blog
May 13th, 2009 @ 8:48 pm
Week 12 Lecture
Today Michael didn’t plug his computer in properly and everything stuffed then he told us to blog about it. So i am going to blog about it. The lecture was about data visualizations it was pretty interesting but he showed us these videos that just went for way too long! But its incredible the amount of time, work and effort people have put into making some of these visualizations such as mapping out the whole Bible into that rainbow looking thing. It’s crazy. The lecture would of finished early but because Michael’s computer had to restart and the projector had to turn off and on again we wasted 15 minutes just waiting for that and i was so hungry i wanted to go home.
Last week we looked at this website called “We feel fine” Alot of work and programming has gone into developing this website. What it does is it scans the world of blogs/status updates, myspace comments and tweets for any sentence with the word “feel” in it. You can then scan through these reading each one by one and then even tracing it back to their blog or myspace page. It’s pretty interesting but if you actually go on the website it gets boring in about 5 seconds.
This is a very well done Data Vizualization of the Swine Flu virus spread.
