The GulfTower Project

David Newbury@workergnome

David Newbury@workergnome

Hardware / Software / Data

Creative Development

Film & Animation

The Gulf Tower Team:

Carnegie Museum of Art

Larry Walsh and Rugby RealtyWorkergnome Studios

The Gulf TowerTrowbridge & Livingston, architects.

Headquarters for theGulf Oil Company

The Lights

1930s: Neon

Red light signified fair weatherBlue light meant rain or snow

1970s: Sodium Vapor

During the energy crisis,It was bad form for the Gulf Oil Company to have electric lights on all night.

2010s: LED

Automated LEDweather beacon

How do youshow feelingat a distance?

Original Concept

—Find tweets with an image—Identify emotion in that tweet —calculate the mood of Pittsburgh—Show it on the Gulf Tower

Get the Tweets

Get the Tweets Instagrams

How to choose?Messages to CMOA?#hashtags?Search?

How to choose?Messages to CMOA?#hashtags?Search?

Location

Tip #1:

Don't let anyonecheck your work.It's all about the story.

A brief digression about the horribleness of the internet where everything is broken and nothing ever works the first time.

Realtime UpdatesReceive notifications when a new photos are posted in an arbitrary geographical location— Instagram API Docs

If you can't do it right, fake it.

API Limit:

Allegheny County:

Tip #2:

It's OK to do itthe wrong way.It's not web scale.

@points = [[40.4392969, -79.998182], [40.482623, -79.915998] , [40.398486, -79.906042] , [ 40.521260, -79.819524], [40.525957, -80.002859], [40.367374, -80.004803], [40.443712, -79.827649]]

@extended_points = [[40.324256, -79.912565], [40.366122, -79.816434], [40.405349, -79.727171], [40.480077, -79.728544], [40.560461, -79.724424], [40.595403, -79.819181], [40.557852, -79.910505], [40.606351, -79.994962], [40.643353, -80.087659], [40.560982, -80.089033], [40.482688, -80.091093], [40.403257, -80.091093], [40.324256, -80.091779], [40.288125, -79.995649]]

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We're getting hundreds of photos every hour.

Now What?

First Idea:Use the palette from the images to light upthe building.

Technical Problems...

Technical Problems......Storytelling Problems.

Tip #3:

It's only cleverif they get it.You get 5 seconds of attention.

Second Idea:Colors for Emotions

Sentiment Analysis: Standford NLP

https://github.com/7compass/sentimental

https://github.com/mattThousand/sad_panda

For any sentence, compute a score.

"I am drinking the greatest milkshake ever!"

+ 1.00

For any sentence, compute a score.

"The world is a sad, hard, lonely place."

- 0.389

For any sentence, compute a score.

"poof loves helping us change the sheets #pooflala"

+ 0.875

For any sentence, compute a score.

"The battery in my F150 resembles a zebra."

- 0.375

Tip #4:

Good Enough isgood enough.This isn't rocket science.

Second Idea:Colors for Emotions

Final Idea:

Technology StackRuby / Sinatra / Redis / Herokuif you're a nerd, this is actually interesting.

The Cloud.

Not everyonelives downtown.tower.cmoa.org

Storytime:

Why it's nice towork for a museum.

It turns out that the internet is the internet.

Back to nerd stuff.

Ourhigh techcomputersystem.

Ourhigh techcomputersystem.

Tip #5:Always have abackup plan.It's only broken if they notice.

Results: 16,589 Photos.

8368 Positive photos2814 Negative photos5407 Neutral photos.

Average score: +0.35

ALmost 3 to 1 Positive

The happiest Instagram

The saddest Instagram

Pittsburgh's negative about:

Zombies.

This is what successlooks like in Pittsburgh.

Why all this matters.

To conclude,a confession.

This was the saddest instagram in Pittsburgh.

Thank you

Questions?