New IM Status Visualization

April 13th, 2005

Mulit-User Composite View (IMSCAN),
originally uploaded by John Resig.

I wrote a new visualization for IM user data today. The following image shows a two-week composite view of a user and its buddies. To acheive this, I essentially took a 24 hour view from a user, added an opacity, and layered each day on top of each other. The result is this interesting composite view that's really informative. (The darker the area, the more active the user is during that time period) I later added in the ability to drag-and-drop users, to make it easier to compare one user to another. We will probably be launching this service very soon - I'll be sure to let everyone know when that is.

Tags: visualization, imscan, images, projects, im

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Project Updates

March 20th, 2005

Even though I was terribly busy, I still managed to make a number of project updates this weekend. Most of the updates were just writing up some documentation and getting them out the door, but that's something.

• FOAF Layout - Did a possible FOAF layout for Bob Aman. I wanted a clean, concise, layout which downgraded nicely (and even had a little bit of Javascript flare).
• Log Session Analyis - Analyzes Apache logs looking for all unique sessions that occur. Also grabs a bunch of other fun stuff (such as number of people reading RSS feeds.
• Dom Snap - Make two DOM objects 'snap' to each other and move around together.
• Finally wrote some documentation for three of my Perl Modules, and put them up on CPAN: Net::Netflix, Net::Amazon::DVD2IMDB, and Net::DVDProfiler. I hope to package up a couple other modules and get them out the door here soon.

Also, I've moved this site over to a new server (which is also hosting juniperbay.com, amoungst other things). It's terribly nice - hopefully the uptime will be much better then my old server.

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Old Projects Added

February 9th, 2005

I added a number of old projects last night that were long overdue for release. A list of them can be found below:

• AI::Markov - The Markov Model Perl module that I wrote when I was on co-op in the Lab for Applied Computing last year.
• CSH Interview Management - The web application that I wrote for CSH members to manage the new member interview process.
• Latent Semantic Indexing - An implementation of Latent Semantic Indexing that I wrote for Data Mining class.
• POE::Component::XOSD - A Perl module that can be used to run a threaded XOSD process.
• RIT SIS Account Query - A Perl library for connecting to the RIT SIS application and retreiving personal information.
• RIT SIS Query - Another Perl library for connecting to the RIT SIS application and retreiving course information.
• RIT Schedule of Courses Scraper - A Perl module and script that can be used to scrape the course listing of RIT.
• Soccer Comm Protocol - An idea that Chris and I tossed around last year.
• Template Presentation - A lightweight XML-based presentation utility written in Perl, while I was working in the LAC.

I only have about three to five projects left which I have to add information for and once that's complete the projects section of this web site will be up to date. While compiling all of these projects I've been rather surprised at just how many I've written over the years. I wish I had time to go back through them and fix bugs/write documentation, but I'll have to take it as they come.

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