Hi all,
We have been working pretty hard lately to create data visualizations from the Twitter discourse of the candidates to the upcoming Colombian presidential elections. It is an innovative approach combining live coding, reproducible research and data activism, narratives and visualizations. As usual, we try to simplify infrastructure to amplify/diversify participation. You can see the visualizations hosted in TW at the end of this post or visit them online at https://mutabit.tiddlyhost.com/.
In the Pharo/GToolkit part, to produce our infographics we’re using Roassal3 (except for the word cloud, because aesthetics reasons), RSS-Tools, XMLHtml parsers, ReStore and Mustache, among others.
In the TW front, this is our main web site for the complete project, to share the infographics, do presentations (via Tamasha) and organize the behind scenes for the project (via our own mod of Projectify). We are going to use TW even more in combination with Echarts, so TW can bring a complete alternative to our PDF publishing platform (which currently requires mostly Pharo, LaTeX and sparks of Python).
You can see more about this in this threads:
[1] https://twitter.com/mutabit/status/1526272357425369094
[2] https://twitter.com/mutabit/status/1526235036458135553
We will be sharing more about this project and its behind scenes in the upcoming weeks. If you’re instered, you can follow the hashtag
https://twitter.com/hashtag/CandidatosEnDatos
Retweets are welcomed and pretty appreciated.
Cheers,
