Info Viz, updates
Data scraping is going well.. I have at the time of writing about 65k+ images scrapped of the iTunes App Store.
I forgot to mention, I’m changing my idea to try to visualize something interesting from the abundance of (mostly bad) icons on the App Store. I don’t think I will have sufficient time to scrape the entire app store, I’ll just have to work with what I have.
I’m not too sure what kind of visualization I can get out of all these data. On the fundamental level, I’m going to try to generate a colour chart of all the icons in the app store. I’m also thinking of experimenting with data averaging or various other techniques to see what I can get.
Hey Chong Han,
Cool project! You should be aware of a similar visualization that Apple did for WWDC 2009:
http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/08/apples-cool-matrix-style-app-wall/