Visualising Edinburgh Festivals

A talk I gave at TechMeetup Edinburgh.

Transcript

1. Hello.
11. "Just wanted to let you know that we use your visualisation a lot in presentations and it goes down a storm, so to speak, and we want to keep using it." Head of Marketing and Innovation, Festivals Edinburgh ‘cos marketing and innovation always go together...
12. "To allow us to keep using it though we were wondering whether it might be possible to get rid of the ‘2011’ text that appears on the screen" "Might drive some work your way"
14. Technology. •Node.js •CouchDB (6.2GB with ~2.8m rows + 5 views) •PubSubHubbub •Flickr API •Twitter Streaming API •dotCloud & Iris Couch/Cloudant
15. [Insert timeline graph]
16. setTimeout(function() { process.exit(1); }, 2*60*60*1000);
17. http://processing.org/ void setup() { // load data and stuff } void draw() { // draw a frame save(filename); // save the frame }
18. https://vimeo.com/29323612
19. https://vimeo.com/3060638 Henrik Ekeus
20. http://flic.kr/p/a1vp4W Eric Fischer @enf
21. http://flic.kr/p/87NPqt Eric Fischer @enf Locals and Tourists
22. Matt Riggott http://flic.kr/p/bA5Bbx
23. h data!
24. Thanks. @roryf rory@fitzpatrick.fm http://vimeo.com/thinkclear