As the thesis week is one week away, everything on the OpenVisuals side is going great!
I am about to finish revising the website, which comes with better usability and more visualizations. I will post the version of the OpenVisuals API soon to the website, just need to fix an issue about importing in the Processing. In the meantime, check out the current data sets and visualizations, play with them to see if you can get an interesting visual out of Primary Elections data.
I have been doing presentations on OpenVisuals for a while, and here is my latest presentation file. It’s my first try of Google Docs Presentation by the way, and adding a presentation to a website looks amazing!
So here is a new version of the API. I have to say, it is still far from working smoothly, however you might want to give it a try, since it surely works if you use it the way it is explained in the learning section. You can download it from OpenVisuals Page.
On the website, many many stuff is up there, live indeed!
Check out the learning and reference section! These pages, as in any API, has the most important part in encouraging users to check the API. I will be on to fill in the gaps (broken links) in the reference section.
New browse page is up! With tags! Now, any visualization can be tagged, which makes it very easy to find in the browse page.
Also, check out this cool visualization, Swirlies, uploaded by Tymm. I couldn’t quite understand what it visualizes, but it looks amazing! If I can figure out how to visualize a dataset using this, I will implement the API, so that you can use it with your datasets.
New version of the API is getting ready, will be up within a couple of days!
I exported Javadocs from the current version of the API that I have been working on. My goal is to find actually a better automatic documentation, like the Reference of Processing. I learned that (source: Daniel Shiffman) Ben Fry is using some kind of self-built Javadoc parsing application to generate their reference pages. So I am in search, and if you know something, put a comment!
Having the most boring ever weather in New York city, a New Yorker has definitely nothing to do but sit down and write codes.. So it’s been two weeks since the last post, and there is a lot to tell.
Basically, the basic features of the website is there, mysql database is up there, commenting is there, dataset uploading and visualization uploading is there, there are even couple of visualizations working with various datasets that are uploaded. As of API still a lot missing, and that is the thing that’s gonna occupy my time. But currently, using API, one can import a dataset from the website, use the functions to fetch the data, and do his/her tricks with them.
More details coming soon, but here are some snapshots from the website.
Here is the birth of OpenVisuals API, version 0.0.1 beta (seriously beta), which can be downloaded from OpenVisuals API page. Lovely isn’t is? And in order to explain a little of ‘what is going on?’, here is a tutorial page. I would appreciate any comments on the structure, simplicity/complexity of the structure of the using of API. I will post more examples shortly.