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bmud
"Totem Pole": Facebook Data Visualizer
Jul 28th, 2008, 4:06pm  
Hi all. I've been slaving away all summer on a project I named "Totem Pole." It's supposed to be done by this week, so I thought I should go ahead and start posting about it now.

Maybe, if I'm lucky, one or two of you wizards out there will see some terrible bug I don't see. Right now, sadly, there are a ton of strange things I can't figure out because I'm not much of a programmer.

Anyway, the concept is really exciting, and I know it's getting close to working. A yelp of encouragement would be nice. Sad

Our web page:
http://sequoia.csc.ncsu.edu/~wlbowlin/facebook/

Here's the blog...
http://dgrc.ncsu.edu/groups/designtech/search/?q=bowling&fields=lastModifiedAuthor

And here's our 50-inch poster!
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bmud
Re: "Totem Pole": Facebook Data Visualiz
Reply #1 - Jul 31st, 2008, 10:02pm  
Last night I essentially finished the project, and posted a video up on vimeo of it working. It's pretty darn epic. Still some bugs, and still some dummy images I was using just temporarily, but people were very impressed when I presented it this morning!

Enjoy!
http://vimeo.com/1441156
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bmud
Re: "Totem Pole": Facebook Data Visualiz
Reply #2 - Aug 1st, 2008, 8:35am  
So the missing link (sort of) is that I never found a really clean way of making processing talk to facebook. My work-around was to use a separate mysql database but that involves writing the data-mining code twice for the "in" and "out".

I wonder if anyone could help me figure out if I can import one of the three java-to-facebook APIs jus tso I can get the applet authenticated (it's treated as a different entity than your browser unfortunately).

http://code.google.com/p/facebook-java-api/
> http://64.81.51.104:54321/facebook/javadoc/index.html
http://www.toolsforteams.com/code/facebook-api/
http://fb4j.sourceforge.net/quickstart.html
http://code.google.com/p/javabook/
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