Laurier Rochon

art, technology and other nice things


Find the Gat – 2008

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.

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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

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