I’m finally finished with the acquisition, parsing and the filtering of the data. The non-visual data that is. I’ve spend the last couple of days working on it. It’s pretty dull work but essential for displaying the data correctly. So now I’ve got 14 exquisite files which hold all the data (date and time, heart-rate, GPS coords and activities) for all 14 days. My Flash app will only have to loop through them. Bit by bit I’ll work on the photographs and I hope the whole work will be finished and online by next Wednesday.
An interesting book on working with data (for which I unfortunately don’t have enough time to work through) is Visualizing Data by Ben Fry, yes one of the developers of Processing. He’s a real genius in working with data, take a look at some of his projects.