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Visualizing Pressible [Processing]

Pressible is an online publishing platform developed at Edlab – a research group at Teachers College at Columbia University. Jer Thorp has been working there for the past few weeks as invited Artist-in-residence, manipulating the data of their relatively new system (launched formally in June) that has a base of about 110 individual blogs.

I’m interested in visualizing the Pressible ‘ecosystem’ – and wanted to see in a time-based way how the system as a whole has developed. Using Processing, I created this animations, which shows the system grow over the span of about a year. Each individual ‘cluster’ is a blog in the Pressible system. The coloured dots around the clusters are unique posts, which appear in ‘real time’ as the calendar reaches the day on which they were published.

So to see more images of the process, see Jer’s flickr. To follow Jer’s work while at Edlab, see blprnt.pressible.org

This amination was built using Processing v.1.2.

See also Jer’s guest post here on CAN: The HyperCard Legacy [Theory, Mac]: Programming for the People

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