emoto — Visualising the online response to London 2012

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1. Drew Hemment, Moritz Stefaner, Gerrit Kaiser Strata London, October 2012

   Visualising the online response to London 2012

2. Creative team Moritz Stefaner Drew Hemment (Future Everything) Studio NAND

   A FutureEverything project for London 2012 Festival and the Cultural Olympiad programme. Funded by Arts Council England and WE PLAY/Legacy Trust UK. Infrastructure design & development by Gerrit Kaiser. Citizen journalism by Andy Miah Evaluation and blogging by Ege Sezen. Project management by Leon Seth and Nick Lawrenson. Communications by Jo Williams, Anita Morris Associates. Emoto is produced by FutureEverything and Studio NAND. Data art commission for London 2012 festival and the Cultural Olympiad.

3. The games Social media response :) :( Sentiment analysis and

   classification x #goldmedal #hockey Real time data visualization Data sculpture Data journalism

4. Sentiment analysis @barack_obama +1 +1 +3 (provided by lexalytics salience

   engine) Congrats to Michael Phelps for breaking the all–time Olympic record. You’ve made your country proud. —bo

5. emoto2012.org https:/ /vimeo.com/46615102

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9. Phelps Phelps Phelps Bolt Hockey Soccer these are crap -->

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11. HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY HOCKEY A) shortest cathethus aligned

    to hypothenuse swapping position alternately B) shortest cathethus aligned to hypothenuse swapping position alternately mirroring after 4th element B) shortest cathethus aligned to hypothenuse swapping position alternately mirroring alternately
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14. emoto2012.org Implemented using: backbone.js d3.js html5 boilerplate — underscore/jquery/modernizr/...

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17. emoto installation https://vimeo.com/49679699

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20. What’s the story?

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27. Olympics keywords 8b. Archival Flat files (Compressed) 9. Load Balancer

    / CDN Amazon Elastic Load Balancer & CloudFront 3. Message Bus Redis Queue Push/Writes Reads 5. Message Bus Redis Queue 7b. Stats & Replay Datastores Redis Key/Value 7a. Message Bus Redis Pub/Sub 4. Sentiment Analysis Lexalytics Salience Engine 2. Ingestion Cluster Receives & buffers 6. Statistics Analysis Topic Matching and Stats Aggregation 1. Twitter Streaming API 8a. Web Servers Nginx to serve client-side application Node.js server-side events API

28. Olympics keywords 3. Message Bus Redis Queue Message Bus Redis

    Queue 4. Sentiment Analysis Lexalytics Salience Engine 2. Ingestion Cluster Receives & buffers 1. Twitter Streaming API

29. 8b. Archival Flat files (Compressed) 5. Message Bus Redis Queue

    7b. Stats & Replay Datastores Redis Key/Value 7a. Message Bus Redis Pub/Sub 6. Statistics Analysis Topic Matching and Stats Aggregation

30. 8b. Archival Flat files (Compressed) 9. Load Balancer / CDN

    Amazon Elastic Load Balancer & CloudFront 7b. Stats & Replay Datastores Redis Key/Value 7a. Message Bus Redis Pub/Sub 8a. Web Servers Nginx to serve client-side application Node.js server-side events API

31. Zooming out a bit…

32. The world’s response to the games?

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34. emoto2012.org blog.emoto2012.org Thanks for your attention!