No Lecture

Just putting the finishing touches on my project at the moment. Im pretty happy with were the project is heading at the moment, and the music I chose sounds great. as the clip was very short however I had to loop the entire song, but it sounds ok. I don't think that it sounds repetitive.

No lecture

Just working on the production project this week. Haven’t got much further visually since last week, but I did find some audio that I’m going to use in the piece. The license is to be used for educational purposes only, and being that this is a project for my university studies I feel I am quite qualified.

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Data visualization: A Map of Olympic medals

I found this data visualisation on the delicious site when I was re directed to the New York Times website in the sports section. The actual content to me as I am not a fan of the Olympics is pretty trivial and useless, but I like the fact that the content indirectly references past world events in it’s data such as the American led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics due to the soviet union’s invasion of Afghanistan. This is not mentioned in the data but it is affected by it. Cool.

The design might not be great looking but it does the job when trying to covey its data. Unlike most of these data visualisations I can understand it and it is nice to have the numbers lurking in the background to accurately determine the medal count. The idea that the circles are geographically placed is also really helpful when trying to find your countries medal count.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/08/04/sports/olympics/20080804_MEDALCOUNT_MAP.html

"Data, data Everywere" dah, dah, dah, dum (dramatic music)

Is the idea of the representation of abstract non-physical information.

Large numbers are easy to comprehend for a computer, but hard for humans.

To engage a human audience we need to use tools that spark visual response, and what we can interpret with ease. They include

- Scale
- Colour
- Shape
- Movement
- Change of position.

Also did some work on my project. If I haven’t mentioned this earlier I am doing the YouTube video about YouTube none the less. I have created a storyboard and I am well on my way to finishing it off. I am yet to find some good music that I want to use in the piece. I am going to many, many different sites that have royalty free music to download, but the music is not as comical or cartoonish as I would have hoped. I will have to keep looking I suppose?

Here are some screen shots of the blueprint style I am trying to achieve in this piece.
I think I drew a lot of the inspiration from the title sequences off the television series Mythbusters, but I have put them into a context I believe.

Multiplicity

Multiplicity was well defined with the phrase “combinational explosion” meaning an explosion of possibilities. The digital world is unfathomably infinite, and due to its immensity content does not adhere to physical scale. An application in the digital world can be as big as a hard drive will allow it.

With a multitude of users using one program we gain “wisdom of crowds” this wisdom encourages diversity, independence, decentralisation and aggregation.

Diversity

Of information and opinion.

Independence

Of thought and opinion

Decentralisation

Of knowing local knowledge

Aggregation

Using this information and making something out of it.

Basically the more people that use an application the more intelligent that system will become.

Take Linux for example. It is an operating system that you do not have to pay for and is generated through user contributions and collaboration. If all of the constructive benefactors had not all partaken in their own unique way’s the system might have been a little flat and not as content rich, but due to its diversity the system is a rival to most of the operating systems that are turning a profit.