VisualizeBuzzFeedPosts

Inspiration

Jeff have an idea to visualize in 3D how posts spread from person to person.

How it works

We parsed anonymous traces of posts and visualize the data in 3D with walrus engine.

Challenges I ran into

Installing Java3D on Ubuntu and Mac (Mac not supported) Check whether data forms a spanning tree: depth-first-search Remove circles in a tree Attach all floating trees into a big one

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

The visualization looks really cools We can rotate, zoom-in/out, filter clusters and the number of generations when the data is spreading

What I learned

Python data engineering and data quality assurance

What's next for VisualizePosts

See the todo list in Github repo :)

Built With

• python
• walrus