Warsaw NodeBox Live Workshop 2018
Frederik De Bleser & Lucas Nijs
NodeBox Live
We found the best way to continue developing NodeBox Live is to teach it to new users and see how they use the software, where they stumble, and how we can improve.
Lucas Nijs teaching NodeBox Live
During the first two days we taught students how to use NodeBox Live: the basic principles of procedural graphics, how to work with data, and how to connect data points to a visual representation.
Workshops like these are a great opportunity to discover functionality that is useful for many users. During the workshop we developed nodes to easily fetch real-time JSON data, perform mapping from latitude/longitute to X/Y coordinates (using the d3-geo library) and manipulate imported data by adding or replacing columns.
Collaborating with the City of Warsaw
Ewa Satalecka and Justyna Magdalena Jekiel
The workshop was organized collaboration with the Warsaw City Contact Center (better known by its hotline number 19115) who provided data on "non-urgent" notifications like garbage, road damage or broken trees. All the data was provided through a uniform city API (in Polish) which provided much more information on themes such as environmental data, educational data, transportation information and more. Some of the data sets are really interesting, like a live feed of all buses and trams running through the city of Warsaw.
Results
We had some very enthusiastic students developing their ideas into visual experiments. Here are some of the works.
Warsaw City NotificationsWeronika Racz & Igor Rams
Incidents in WarsawJoanna Świderska, Oliwia Przeździecka & Weronika Ławska
Ranking of Warsaw UniversitiesDaryna Perederko
Trash in WarsawAdam Kin & Diana Ahudża
Car Crashes in WarsawZuzanna Mikolajczak, Luna Le Minh Trang & Agnieszka Toczyska
Greenery in Warsaw
Population of Warsaw MuseumsDaryna Chernysheva, Hanna Prokhorova & Maryna Krykotun
Trees Planted in WarsawZofia Włoczewska & Aleksandra Solińska
Causes of DeathMaciej Biernacki, Maciej Mainda & Inna Kornichuk
Tram Life CycleKyrylo Lohvyn, Katsiaryna Harelik & Yustsina Sakalenko
Spare Time PreferencesNatassia Tolstsik, Anastasiia Pozhydaieva & Vladyslav Kerpich
Thanks Warsaw!
We would like to thank the Polish-Japanese Academy for hosting our workshops, especially Ewa Satalecka and Olga Wroniewicz. We also want to thank the city of Warsaw for their cooperation and bringing us into direct contact with the developers when things weren't working as planned.
Interested in NodeBox Live, the upcoming web-based version of NodeBox? Head over to our new website.