Content Maps
18 months ago
Visualizing Pressible: Blog Clusters & Growth of a System
18 months ago
Pressible Clusters - Adding Time
18 months ago
Visualizing Pressible Blogs: Data Exploration
18 months ago
EdLab Artist in Residence
19 months ago
Content Maps
18 months ago
EdLab Artist in Residence
19 months ago
In order to explore the intertextuality between various Pressible.org blogs, I’ve started to build a system to try to classify subjects, people, and relationships mentioned in posts.
Using a tool built in Processing, I can take any text (ie. a Pressible post) and create a ‘map’ of it’s major elements. Here is a simple map from a blog post:
This tool uses OpenCalais, a web service from Reuters which is meant to enable semantic classification of web content.
Of course, this system could be used for any type of text. For example, here’s a content map of an excerpt from James Joyce’s Ulysses:
I'm interested in visualizing the Pressible 'ecosystem' - and wanted to see in a time-based way how the system as a whole has developed. Using Processing, I created this animation, which shows the system grow over the span of about a year. Each individual 'cluster' is a blog in the Pressible system. The coloured dots …
In Thursday's post, I showed a set of 'Pressible clusters', which visualize the entire posting history involved with an individual blog. These new images add a bit more detail to the mix; namely, they introduce a more accurate representation of time. Here, the clusters become timepieces - posts in the early days of the blog …
A big part of my residency at EdLab involves examining the data that is produced by the Pressible.org system. Launched last month, Pressible is a publishing platform for students and staff at Teachers College. I'm interested in how this data is representative of the human community at Teachers. In any data-related project, my first step …
Until August 13th, I'll be working at EdLab as the summer artist-in-residence. While the details of what I'll be doing are still fairly nebulous, I'm going to be looking at the data generated from Pressible, and exploring various ways in which in can be explored, exposed, and exhibited. Stay tuned to this blog for frequent …
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So cool…