DATA VISUALIZATIONS

I. Summary:
My project is a data visualization of how people can be seen by a computer. The computer trough a webcam, which is going to be the eye of the computer, will catch people passing by and is going to represented them randomly from simple shapes.

II. Motivation:
The world where we live is been moved by computer, all the things that society do is interacting with computers. This Binary world of 0s and 1s that we look at it all day and used it without knowing what is behind them. What would be to the other way around? How computer look at us when we are in front of them?

III. Domain of search:

-Data Visualization

-Action Scripts

-Nodebox

IV. Timeline:

Week 1
Nov 14 – Project proposal

Week2
Nov 21 – Research Actions Script Coding
Nov 23 – Research Actions Script Coding

Week3
Nov 28 – Actions Script Coding
Nov 30 – Actions Script Testing

Week4
Dec 5 and 7 – Prototype of the project

Week5
Dec 12 –Testing the installation
Dec 14 –Finished project presentation

V. References:

Nodebox- application that lets you create 2D visuals (static, animated or interactive) using Python programming code and export them as a PDF or a QuickTime movie. http://www.nodebox.net/code/index.php/Home

Anemone by Ben Fry- an organism that monitors web traffic. http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/anemone/index.html

The Matrix (the movie)- Everyday life is turned upside-down when Thomas Anderson discovers that the world around him is a detailed virtual reality created by a computer that has taken over the Earth of the future.