final project proposal

idea 1

Overview:

The story of the stars (working title) explores the mutual influence of pop music and news media. The intention of this interactive visualization is to find correlation between rise and fall and popularity of the musicians over time. This visualization will compare the musicians’ success or fail on billboard chart and social, personal events on news articles related to the musicians regardless of their reputation. ex, after Michael Jackson died, album sales goes up)

Data:

Billboard open API

To use names of the artists from the billboard chart

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NYT article search API

To get frequency of the musician’s names from the article

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sentimental analysis API(evri) + NYT community API

to see positive/ negative opinions from people’s comment

Precedent :

Twitter data viz from MTV VMA

Michael Jackson billboard chart timeline from NYT

idea 2

Overview
This project will visualize the change of ranking history  of bestselling books, and which publisher and author makes more/ less bestsellers, how long it takes for their books to become bestsellers after they are published( some books don’t get attention when they are published, but after certain events, suddenly they become top sellers. On the other hand, there are steady sellers. )

Data
NYT Best sellers api :
use ranking history, author, publisher, publish date

Precedents
360/365 Jer Thorp

idea 3

In the intrest of making data viz that can used in mobile platform, we thought about tracking hotspots in nyc ara. this idea is kind of broad as well, but might be worth exploring further. using nyt real estate api and other source like twitter( some place people casually talk about things ), how some area is more popular( sold well, get more attention) than others, which can be used as a tool to predict future rise in real estate market.

so with mobile phone, the visual will be changed based on the user’s location and the popularity of the spot.