The aim of my mid term project is to Visualize Spam. Please read this to know more about the concept. Since this is going to be my proposal for the final project in this class, I decided to start by implement just a simple part of this complex project:
1. Load (into processing) three local text files of different kind of spam email(ads, money, privacy);
2.Extract the date, subject and length of each one
3. Use that data to display 3 circles : the circles are position on the screen according with the date ( older email goes near the upper left corner ) ; the size of the email depends on the length of the email; each circle is identify by it's subject
I consider this study just a starting point and the result become exactly the opposite that I wanted to create in the beginning. I wanted the result to be visually annoying and noisy, like spam but to simplify I decided to represent each email as a circle that was displayed according the data of it's related spam email.
It was very good to learn how to extract data from files and translate that data visually. I figure out that I was harder that I was expect and I learned a lot.