Note: This project is no longer active.
Summary
CO-Data is a vanity project website which displays graphs derived from
this (craigoates.net) website. When looking at the charts, you will see how many
artworks I made in 2018 (compare to 2019...), which day is my most productive
and other things I will refrain from listing here.
CO-Data is an on-going project. So, you will find me adding things to it from
time-to-time. This will happen alongside the daily updates of the charts already
on there. If you have an idea for an interesting graph/visualisation, feel free
to send me an email or pull-request. Or, if you prefer, you can grab the data
from CO-API (see below) and incorporate it into your own project.
Screenshot 1: CO-Data Home Page (during early development)
Screenshot 2: CO-Data Art Page (during early development)
Pre-Requisites
If you want to work with the source code of this project, I recommend you meet
the following:
- You have experience with Python3 and Flask and Bokeh.
- You can create a virtual environment in Python.
- You know how to install packages with Pip -- via 'requirements.txt'.
- Comfortable using a terminal and Bash.
Otherwise, just visit the website (links below).
Noteworthy Projects
For CO-Data to work the way it does, it utilises two other projects I have
created. They are CO-API and Skivvy.
CO-API
Instead of grabbing the data for craigoates.net from 'behind closed doors', I
decided to attach CO-Data to another project: CO-API. In some ways, CO-Data is a
demonstration project for accessing and working with the data provided by the
CO-API project.
As a quick summary, CO-API is RestAPI for accessing the meta-data of this
(craigoates.net) site. For more information about CO-API, you can jump to the
project's project page using the links below.
Skivvy
Skivvy is another project of mine which CO-Data works with. Its main goal is to
parse the data returned from CO-API into a format which makes it easier to form
the graphs I want to create. This is nothing forcing CO-Data to need Skivvy but
I use it to reduce the amount of work the C.P.U. needs to do when generating the
charts. Skivvy is an open-source project so you can see what it is doing in
create detail if you wish to. Links for this project and repository are below.
Relevant Links