newsMap

Inspiration

Path of lowest resistance from VERY orthogonal beginnings in webAR, 3dgraphics, webdev, web-scraping, news-sentiment, text-parsing, moby-dick-markov-chain-generating-java, ...

What it does

Incorrectly displays (not quite) event location data from one latitude, randomly sampled, from ~7 GB from The GDELT Project (Google).

How I built it

Wrote program to convert plain text to json (incorrectly), cntrl-f-search-replace-all regex with Sublime (GB>>), shove it into JavaScript and find lots of bugs we haven't overcome.

Challenges I ran into

Lack of implementable ideas, leading to path of lowest resistance (data -> visualization).

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

We use git and actually, maybe, will have a working website in a couple weeks (this was hacked together in <5 hrs).

What I learned

Union of all learnings across team members: reading API docs, HTML/CSS/JS, web-scraping, markov-chains, json, google maps api, a ton of text parsing (5>> GB).

What's next for newsMap

Actually making it work.

Built With

• 3dprinting
• b
• bash
• bootstrap
• c
• css3
• d
• e
• english
• f
• github
• google-maps
• html5
• itunes
• java
• javascript
• json
• markov-chains
• python
• raspberry-pi
• sqlite
• stl
• thoughtaboutperl
• web-scraping
• webar