the gulf tower project
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The GulfTower Project
David Newbury@workergnome
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David Newbury@workergnome
Hardware / Software / Data
Creative Development
Film & Animation
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The Gulf Tower Team:
Carnegie Museum of Art
Larry Walsh and Rugby RealtyWorkergnome Studios
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The Gulf TowerTrowbridge & Livingston, architects.
Headquarters for theGulf Oil Company
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The Lights
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1930s: Neon
Red light signified fair weatherBlue light meant rain or snow
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1970s: Sodium Vapor
During the energy crisis,It was bad form for the Gulf Oil Company to have electric lights on all night.
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2010s: LED
Automated LEDweather beacon
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How do youshow feelingat a distance?
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Original Concept
—Find tweets with an image—Identify emotion in that tweet —calculate the mood of Pittsburgh—Show it on the Gulf Tower
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Get the Tweets
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Get the Tweets Instagrams
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How to choose?Messages to CMOA?#hashtags?Search?
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How to choose?Messages to CMOA?#hashtags?Search?
Location
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Tip #1:
Don't let anyonecheck your work.It's all about the story.
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A brief digression about the horribleness of the internet where everything is broken and nothing ever works the first time.
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Realtime UpdatesReceive notifications when a new photos are posted in an arbitrary geographical location— Instagram API Docs
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If you can't do it right, fake it.
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API Limit:
Allegheny County:
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Tip #2:
It's OK to do itthe wrong way.It's not web scale.
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@points = [[40.4392969, -79.998182], [40.482623, -79.915998] , [40.398486, -79.906042] , [ 40.521260, -79.819524], [40.525957, -80.002859], [40.367374, -80.004803], [40.443712, -79.827649]]
@extended_points = [[40.324256, -79.912565], [40.366122, -79.816434], [40.405349, -79.727171], [40.480077, -79.728544], [40.560461, -79.724424], [40.595403, -79.819181], [40.557852, -79.910505], [40.606351, -79.994962], [40.643353, -80.087659], [40.560982, -80.089033], [40.482688, -80.091093], [40.403257, -80.091093], [40.324256, -80.091779], [40.288125, -79.995649]]
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{ "meta": { "code": 200 }, "data": [ { "attribution": null, "tags": ["tbt"], "location": { "latitude": 40.43652014, "longitude": -79.959626346 }, "comments": { "count": 0, "data": [] }, "filter": "Crema", "created_time": "1423166667", "link": "http://instagram.com/p/yu3PIBQ1da/", "likes": { "count": 1, "data": [ { "username": "k_burb", "profile_picture": "https://igcdn-photos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1\ /t51.2885-19/10890875_1586235371612840_877769420_a.jpg", "id": "316451887", "full_name": "Kayla Burbidge" } ] }, "images": {
"standard_resolution": { "url": "http://scontent-b.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xap1/t51.2885-15/e15/\ 1597161_322775037921162_1395619858_n.jpg", "width": 640, "height": 640 } }, "users_in_photo": [ ], "caption": { "created_time": "1423166667", "text": "#tbt !! @noelsuzanne", "from": { "username": "splavko", "profile_picture": "https://igcdn-photos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/\ t51.2885-19/925345_697665580288942_238655974_a.jpg", "id": "216509308", "full_name": "sarahp" }, "id": "913910706666166186" }, "type": "image", "id": "913910706364176218_216509308", "user": { "username": "splavko", "website": "", "profile_picture": "https://igcdn-photos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/\ t51.2885-19/925345_697665580288942_238655974_a.jpg", "full_name": "sarahp", "bio": "", "id": "216509308" } } ]}
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We're getting hundreds of photos every hour.
Now What?
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First Idea:Use the palette from the images to light upthe building.
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Technical Problems...
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Technical Problems......Storytelling Problems.
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Tip #3:
It's only cleverif they get it.You get 5 seconds of attention.
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Second Idea:Colors for Emotions
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Sentiment Analysis: Standford NLP
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https://github.com/7compass/sentimental
https://github.com/mattThousand/sad_panda
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For any sentence, compute a score.
"I am drinking the greatest milkshake ever!"
+ 1.00
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For any sentence, compute a score.
"The world is a sad, hard, lonely place."
- 0.389
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For any sentence, compute a score.
"poof loves helping us change the sheets #pooflala"
+ 0.875
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For any sentence, compute a score.
"The battery in my F150 resembles a zebra."
- 0.375
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Tip #4:
Good Enough isgood enough.This isn't rocket science.
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Second Idea:Colors for Emotions
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Final Idea:
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Technology StackRuby / Sinatra / Redis / Herokuif you're a nerd, this is actually interesting.
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The Cloud.
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Not everyonelives downtown.tower.cmoa.org
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Storytime:
Why it's nice towork for a museum.
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It turns out that the internet is the internet.
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Back to nerd stuff.
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Ourhigh techcomputersystem.
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Ourhigh techcomputersystem.
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Tip #5:Always have abackup plan.It's only broken if they notice.
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Results: 16,589 Photos.
8368 Positive photos2814 Negative photos5407 Neutral photos.
Average score: +0.35
ALmost 3 to 1 Positive
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The happiest Instagram
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The saddest Instagram
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Pittsburgh's negative about:
Zombies.
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This is what successlooks like in Pittsburgh.
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Why all this matters.
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To conclude,a confession.
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This was the saddest instagram in Pittsburgh.
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Thank you
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Questions?