{"id":2240,"date":"2011-03-05T01:42:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T06:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2011-03-05T02:02:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T07:02:20","slug":"visualizing-defiance-ohio-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2011\/03\/05\/visualizing-defiance-ohio-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Defiance, Ohio Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I won a free O&#8217;Reilly ebook from a <a title=\"The Media Consortium Independent Media Mobile Hackathon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themediaconsortium.org\/hackathon-press-release\/\">hackathon I participated in<\/a> a while ago. \u00a0I chose <a title=\"More info about this book at powells.com\" rel=\"powells-9780596514556\" href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34555\/biblio\/9780596514556?p_ti\">Visualizing Data<\/a> and I&#8217;ve been working through the book. \u00a0I always find that its more helpful to work on a project of my own that approximates the examples in a technical book instead of just reading or copying and pasting the example code. \u00a0It forces me to learn new things, gets me more excited about the project and makes me re-read portions of the book in detail.<\/p>\n<p>For a useful time series, I chose one that was close to my life, the list of <a title=\"Defiance, Ohio past shows\" href=\"http:\/\/defianceohio.terrorware.com\/past-shows\/\">past Defiance, Ohio shows<\/a>. \u00a0It was also useful because I was trying to set expectations for a new job and wanted to let them know how much time I had spent away from home in the past. \u00a0The original version of this list was pretty messy, so I had to clean it up a lot with Google Refine before visualizing it using processing.<\/p>\n<p><NOEMBED><br \/>\n  No Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition v 1.4.1 support for APPLET!!<br \/>\n<\/NOEMBED><br \/>\n<\/EMBED><\/p>\n<p>Most striking, you can see how our activity has become more sparse in the last few years.  If you&#8217;re interested in the code, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/files\/2011\/03\/defiance_ohio_shows.pde\" title=\"processing code for defiance, ohio show visualization\">download the processing code<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won a free O&#8217;Reilly ebook from a hackathon I participated in a while ago. \u00a0I chose Visualizing Data and I&#8217;ve been working through the book. \u00a0I always find that its more helpful to work on a project of my own that approximates the examples in a technical book instead of just reading or copying&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2011\/03\/05\/visualizing-defiance-ohio-shows\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visualizing Defiance, Ohio Shows<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[38,20606,20604,488,20605,204],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacks","tag-defianceohio","tag-graph","tag-processing","tag-shows","tag-time","tag-visualization","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-A8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2260,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}