Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Orientation Week - Social Mapping


Finally I got my first real taste of Creative Technologies where we set out to complete an unusual task. We split up into groups of around 15. It was a little unsettling when i knew no one. However as the seconds gradually flew by the familiarity settled in as we proceeded with the instructions. Answer opinion based questions onto sticky paper from James, stick them onto the wall and connect it with wool from name to answer. The ambiguity of the exercise was soon revealed as our job was the collect the combined data of the group and load it onto a program called Gephi. The first of many programs.

Gephi only proved to be a confusing software to familiarize myself with however i managed to wrap by head around it by the nights end once I managed to input the data correctly. Once visually visible the next assignment was to arrange it in a unique fashion and so i chose to arrange it as a star.

Now all i had left to do was to head out next morning, and print it off in A3 to let the group see the finishing result and compare.

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