I chose to work with the set of meteorite strike data. it struck me that not only did I not already know what to expect from the visualizations, but I couldn’t recall ever having wondered if this data existed.
Dan Sakamoto
28 Jan 2016
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Dan Sakamoto
28 Jan 2016
@emotecam monitors users’ keystrokes and takes photos of their faces when they emote in text. Tweets their real face captioned with what they typed.
Emotecam is a continuation of a similar existing project called Emoticam (name changed on Twitter due …
Dan Sakamoto
28 Jan 2016
The two addons I combined are ofxMyIP and ofxHttpUtils. I chose these because I was beginning to think about Emotobooth, the twitterbot which I’ll describe in more detail on its own post. The project required that an app running in …
Dan Sakamoto
21 Jan 2016
Some of my favorite Twitter bots are the ones that watch for anonymous wikipedia edits from specific IP addresses and announce them, such as @congressedits. I like them for their sheer utility; the first time I saw @congressedits was …
Dan Sakamoto
19 Jan 2016
This map comes from a Washington Post article about a program written by Brian Olson to automatically re-draw congressional districts to be optimized for equal population and compactness. Maryland is shown as one of the examples because it is currently …
Dan Sakamoto
14 Jan 2016
“Play the World” by Zach Lieberman is a keyboard that plays snippets of sounds from radio stations all over the world. Each key plays sounds that roughly match its corresponding pitch, through a speaker that is in the direction of …