visualization

17,525,913 images tweeted at Donald Trump

Juxta A couple years ago I wrote about a method for creating a collage out of 1.2M images collected from the 2015 Canadian Federal Election Twitter dataset. That method was very resource intensive in terms of the amount of temporary disk storage required to create the collage. As the number of images in a given collage increased, the amount of temporary disk space scaled exponentially; 3.5T for 1.2M #exln42 images, and ~90T for 6.

York University Libraries Open Access Week 2012 - blogvsbook

Yesterday, York University Libraries held a debate in the Scott Library entitled, "Be it resolved the blog replace the book?" The debate turned out pretty awesome, and somehow the team arguing for the book won!? (Some might say it was because of @adr's compelling closing statements.)  Along with livestreaming the debate on ustream, I pulled together (a special thanks to Ed Summers, and his very permissive licensing) a little node.js application to display a "twitterfall" of the hashtag for the event.

Islandora development visualization

Hit a bit of a wall yesterday getting checksums working when ingesting content into Islandora, so I made a Gource video of the Islandora commits in my fork of the git repo. Music by RipCD (@drichert) and myself. How’d I do it? I wanted to use the Gravatars, so I used this handy little perl script. Hopped into the Islandora git repo, and ran: gource --user-image-dir .git/avatar/ -s 3 --auto-skip-seconds 0.