Hi! I'm Josh Knowles, a social media development consultant living in New York City. I work on social, mobile, and gaming projects with groups including MTV, mtvU, Digium, Area/Code Games, RunInterference, Studio IMC, and the University of Texas. I have also presented on these topics at conferences such as the Microsoft Design Expo, PICNIC (Amsterdam), Come Out and Play, the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, MobileMusicWorkshop (Vienna), the Austin Museum of Digital Art, and the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference. My academic credentials include an undergraduate honors degree from the University of Texas and a master's degree from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Feel free to contact me at chasing@spaceship.com!
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Posted Wed, April 18, 2007, 5:29pm EST
Part of the visualization. Full project page here.
Tracking messages sent between September 1st, 2006 and January 10th, 2007. Visualized by Josh Knowles, January 10th, 2007.
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ITP Student List Conversations is a visualization of the e-mail conversations that have occurred on the ITP student e-mail list. The amount of conversation between two people is determined by how much they participate in the same discussion threads.
The strength of the connection between two people is determined by multiplying the number of e-mails they each send to the same thread and adding together these numbers for each thread. So if you and I each sent 1 message to a thread, we get 1 connection "point" added to our "score." If we each sent 3 messages to a different thread, we would get 9 connection points (3×3). For a total of 10 connection points (1+9). More connection points are represented by heavier lines connecting two people.
This project was developed using Processing along with some PHP and MySQL.
Note: I just posted this to the blog today because there has been a bit of interest in the project the past couple of weeks. So here you go!
