Leaning Cycle 02

My project is going to find out and judge the current common interests from an online environment through interactive visualisation work from online networks with real time. To create the visualisation work, it has to harvest the huge online data set, the system searches the specific word already defined in the newly posted articles from an online social networking service.
However, before creating the system for visualisation, I needed some systematic understanding about the parameters of online networking because the parameters could be a key sector of this visualisation work.

Visualisation MA blogs
I have investigated some data set that could be useful, practical research work then I decided to use the data from blogs of MA students in Ravensbourne and create some visualisation works with collecting data set from these blogs.

Data collection
First of all, I needed to prepare the data setup before sketching visuals so I collected the data I needed through FeedReader 3.14 which is software that could help to not only collect data but also inform me of new posts up-to-date.

Data list up on Excel sheet
The data set collected was saved on an Excel sheet so that it can be shown in its entire present state of data all on one screen.


Final collected data from MA blogs


Visualisations

Posting Pattern -
Visualizing posting pattern of December 2009. The pattern is created by gender of author, date, time and length of post.

Gender Ring -
Gender Rings from posting pattern. The ring move to right side or left side each time post is uploaded. Moving right side is when female post and left side is when male post.


Background Colour -
Visualizing posting of December using background colour of MA blogs



Flying wit Followers -
This is visualizing for showing amount of followers. The blog higher position has more follower than lower position blog.


Beating with Posting -
This is a visualizing to show amount of posts in all MA blogs from September of 2009 to March of 2010.



Following Circle -
This is a visualizing to show how connected MA students are through ‘follower’.





Movement of December -
This is a visualizing of calendar for December of 2009. Each dot present a date of December and it can be bigger by number of posting.




Expansion -
This is a visualizing posts to show expansion space. Each dot present MA student’s blog and it can move to expand circle space.







Accumulation -
This is a visualizing posts on MA blogs to show accumulated posts.
Each circle present one post then it can be piled up each time post is uploaded.