DATA VISUALIZATIONS
TorrentWatch is a virtual snapshot of the world's
P2P file sharing community that illustrates the ratio of up-loaders (seeders) to down-loaders (leechers) of globally-popular
movies by simultaneously comparing the users’ physical locations by location and during a standardized 24 hour period of time.
We ran through an evolutionary progression of the graphical representations for our data. After going through over twenty
Processing sketches, we developed a 3D graphical interface in which we used colored images of the continents. The continent
pictures are set so that our data collected will shrink or grow the image depending on the seed/leech ratio accordingly.
For example, if the users in the continent are seeding at a higher rate, the continent will appear larger in proportion,
and vice-versa. We also adjusted the z axis so that when a specific hour of P2P activity is selected, the continent will
automatically and progressively “project outward” a distance based on the global seeder/leecher ratio.
A larger ratio will cause the continent to project outward more than for a smaller ratio.
TorrentWatch was a collaboration with James Choi, John Kim, and Nick Sorbello.
Built with Processing.
