My Idea for the Midterm Project for Computational Media is to make a visualization of Spam.
Data Visualization and Mapping Information are one of the research areas I've been working for a while. In recent years these areaa have grown exponentially and today we see, more than ever, all kind of data being exposed to this trend. Not that I’m not happy with this, I think it is extremely important to explore news ways to visualize information and create systems that improve the readability and understanding of it. But, at the same time, it has become more a trend than a necessity and we end up mapping useless information, in my opinion.
So, I decided to map and explore ways to visualize information that we consider irrelevant and annoying, without meaning (it can be arguable) or importance. Like spam.