My latest project for datavis takes a look at industry contributions to each political party during election years. It organizes the top 20 industries by sector and shows which party received the majority of the contributions. The sectors are divided up like a pie chart relative to their contribution in millions. Each sector is then [...]
attended a fun workshop this weekend in Brooklyn hosted by City Solar… it was all about creating solar powered chargers for both batteries and our cell phones. It was a long day bu definitely worth recapping. See more after the break.
more content coming very soon… it’s going to be awesome, stay tuned. this was just a mockup of one idea i had about integrating pinwheels inside a custom rack for the roof a car… charge a battery on the go, share the energy when you arrive… prototype on the way…
www.cubesicle.com
Awaiting Edits….I was trying to come up with a datavis that made sense as a physical object… it was surprisingly tough. I feel like there are lot of good ones out there and I must have been in a creative slump… I’ll include some links to cool projects soon (I gots to dig em up). [...]
website: http://outload.us Some Thoughts It’s interesting to see the general trend towards DIY communities which has in large part been accelerated by the falling costs of connectivity and computation. The internet alone has been able to disrupt a former institutional paradigm by empowering large distributed networks of hobbyists and creatives to create and distribute their [...]
There’s been awesome progress on the bike project… Matthews vision has secured him 5k in funding from the New School New Challenge as well as funding from our Internet of Things Class. He’s made some great connections with folk over at CartoDB and even has a working phone app up and running. The next step [...]
And Planet Class I’ll have it on openProcessing soon.
This saturday I had the amazing opportunity to participate in my first ever hackathon… I honestly had no idea what to expect but figured now was as good a time as any to begin attending these things. I missed the opening night talks but ended up working with one group to build a kit that [...]
My latest homework for Datavis… shallow data source but had fun comparing box office (gross world wide) and Rotten Tomato reviews. UPDATED Just another look at it taking in some suggestions. People thought this was comparing Spiderman and Batman. Understandable. I also got rid of the incremental rating… now each bar is a particular color [...]
