week5-phonymacoroni-yonatan-weiner

week1.md

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+Chosen vis: http://listen.hatnote.com/
+
+This visualization is aptly titled "Listen to Wikipedia". It displays _live_
+edits to wikipedia with bubbles corresponding to the size of the edit. Each 
+bubble is labeled with the associated wiki page and colored to show if
+a human or bot made the edit. Additionally, a tone whose frequency is determined 
+by the size of the edit is played as they occur.
+
+The reason I admire this visualization is because of the incredibly way that it
+conveys the sheer size of the wikipedia project. Selecting only the english
+wikipedia you can listen to the music this website creates as a near constant 
+melody, and interact with the many bubbles that appear. 
+
+In the past, I would frequently open this website while doing work because it 
+_strangly_ made me feel as though others around me were being productive, akin
+to working in a library. The transient nature of this visualization is a 
+wonderful display of how to convert the mass of data that is represented. 
+Because bubbles are always fading, and being replaced with new edits, 
+this visualization conveys far more than most static graphs or summaries would.
+
+Though not strictly _visual_ the use of sounds to accompany the data display 
+adds to the feeling of _evergrowing_, and I believe conveys similar messaging to 
+Drowning in plastic.  

week2.md

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+Chosen vis: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
+
+Six Degrees of Wikipedia is based on the concept of six degrees of seperation. 
+Using this tool you can either select random or input two wikipedia articles 
+and it will visualize the path you would need to take, clicking links from the 
+first page, to arrive at the second page. 
+
+This game is incredibly interesting and it is often surprising what links connect 
+two seemingly unrelated topics. Additionally, the graph is directional, so if 
+you swap the start and end points you will often get a different result. This 
+tool is a fantastic way to visualize the relation of topics, and quirks of 
+language of phrases of speech in an engaging manner.

week4.md

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+Chosen vis: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/wikipedia-lamest-edit-wars/
+
+
+This visualization shows the subject matter and pages that are the subject of the most frequent wikipedia article changes. The site allows you to narrow down the results by type, and gives a quick overview of what the discrepancy is.
+
+It is very interesting to see how many of the topics are regarding pop culture. Some edits seem to reveal smaller parts of internet culture such as the page for Jimbo Wales.
+
+The use of color and size in the vis helps illustrate the the kinds of disagreements that occur on a on a site where many users can argue about minute things. Good examples of this are the Alumin(i)um, or "is europe a continent".

week5.md

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+Chosen vis: https://www.gapminder.org/tools/
+
+I first encountered this in high school economics class, and from watching the TED talk of the projects creator. This tool helps visualize various economic development markers of countries over time, and is a very good way to view the effects of certain events in history such as the great depression or the world wars.
+
+Using animation to show progress over time is a great way to show economic disparity and relative developmental progression between nations. Through this visualization the viewer is able to recognize many aspects of the data that would be difficult otherwise to see, such as the advantage of western nations, or the recoil effect of events. 
+
+This tool also allows viewers to select their own data and watch it play out over time, and is both user friendly and very visually appealing.