DESCRIPTION
Findthegat.com is an online interactive data visualization program that rakes and organizes information from the Web to allow users to compare, analyze and interpret these sets of data. The content accessed relates to hip-hop music and its multiple social, political and geographical references.



CONCEPT
Specifically, the website queries Freebase for data that is tagged with either the words “hip-hop” or “rap”, and then searches for corresponding album covers. When this second search is finished, a modifiable mosaïc of all the information is made available through a flash animation. The layout is available in 3 different modes, called “gat mode”, “coffin mode” and “spit mode”, which offer different types of visualization.
TECHNOLOGY
This project uses PHP, XML, JSON and Flash.
PUBLICATION
All technical details and documentation are available on FindTheGat.com



