At the #innovateTV conference. Watching @digital_vic, “I said the f-word at the CBC”.
Running Processing JS Sketches as Windows 8 Store Apps
As part of my creative fellowship with ITP and Mindspark, I get to play around with Windows 8 and Windows RT app development. Since I belong to the Dan Shiffman school of coding, I mostly make things with Processing. And when I discovered that Windows 8 apps can be built with JavaScript, I got majorly excited because I realized all my processing sketches can run as Windows 8 Apps.
Also, ever since the Microsoft’s Windows RT Surface was released, one of my main questions was how do I run apps that I make on the thing since the device can’t run executables. Luckily, Microsoft provides a pretty good tutorial on how to set up remote debugging on your device. Which means that all my Processing sketches can now run on any Windows 8 or Windows RT slate.
I published the files on github. You can access them here: https://github.com/theantonius/PJSWin8
Leafs at Rangers, Madison Square Gardens.
Simple view of Infographics, Data Vis, Charts, Pivot Tables
Came out of a tweet from @phillipadsmith about an infographic. Got me thinking about the difference between an infographic and data vis. Not new territory but interesting to think about nonetheless.
Edit: A simpler version of the graphic above.
Made with Paper
I Still Shoot Film: Kodak is selling their consumer film business...
So here’s the official word… please excuse my being 3 days late, I needed time to process this information.Kodak Takes Next Steps toward Successful Emergence
Company to Focus Primarily on Commercial, Packaging and Functional Printing Solutions and Enterprise Services
Initiates…
Hard to imagine. Kodak minus the film.
50 years ago today, the Rolling Stones performed for the first time.
Yeah, Geeks!
AKA a regular day at the office.
iPads have overtaken computers as the 2nd-most popular way to watch TV.
(via emergentfutures)
So I did a redesign of this chart about Canada’s least liked cities and I think I did really well.
I like the final product.
(via sunfoundation)
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
This is actually the craziest chart about Apple following their insane earnings today.
There is exactly one company on that entire list that is not an oil and gas company. And they’re not that far from the top.
Creating Data Visualizations for the CBC
I recently started using Processing (processing.org) at the CBC to visualize the dependencies of the content areas on projects being built by Media Ops & Technology (MO&T). Roughly speaking, MO&T builds out platform related projects and the content areas leverage the functionality of those projects to build out their sites. The previous post here was a first sketch in chalk of how a tool to visualize these dependencies might end up looking. Turns out I wasn’t too far off.
These screenshots below show the hightlighted and un-highlighted views. What isn’t shown is the interactive component that enables users to pick which content areas they want to see and then the ability to select individual projects and highlight their dependencies.
The next visualization focused on displaying the content area’s over all dependency on each Media Ops project and then normalizing the relative impact based on audience or revenue. Below is the baseline view before audience and revenue adjustments are applied. One of the benefits of this view is that it makes it easy to see where the content areas aligned in their dependence on different Media Ops projects.
There are more projects underway to help inform discussions about where and how we expend our resources.
A big thanks goes out to everyone involved in the Processing project!
Prototyping
First ones out on the course this morning. One if the few things I get up early for. #golf (Taken with picplz at Huntsville Downs in Muskoka.)
