Luke Loeffler » flare http://lukeloeffler.com Mon, 14 May 2012 04:57:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Visualizing Discussion http://lukeloeffler.com/2009/visualizing-discussion/ http://lukeloeffler.com/2009/visualizing-discussion/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:05:31 +0000 luke http://lukeloeffler.com/?p=394 I just wrapped up work on a visualization for the 2009 Last Supper Festival. The work visualized a series of conversations during a symposium on the topic Identifying Our Means.  After three short presentations, four groups were formed to discuss a number of topics, periodically rotating the group members from one table to the next. At each table was a note taker who recorded as close to verbatim who was saying what and when, with the help of an automatically time-stamping spreadsheet.

Once the data was collected, a number of scripts were written in Python to extract, convert, clean, and export the data in addition to performing some basic analysis. Finally, I used the Prefuse Flare library to create an animation at 40x real time of the interaction between people and key topics. Below is a still frame from the animation.  Click to load the animation.
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Special thanks to David Friedlander, Chris Kennedy, Stephanie Nikolopoulos, and Reid Rogers for collecting the data (taking notes) during the event!

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