Wiki Memorial

Data Mining, Data 3D visualization

Python, Processing, D3,js, Houdini

May 2018

About

My concept is that I want to collect the data of dead people from various countries and backgrounds on Wikipedia, then I can build up memorials according to their Wikipedia page data in a virtual space.
I used Python to crawl Wikipedia 2017 death data and then filtered and analyzed it before I imported into Houdini. I used VEX in Houdini to automatically generate geometry and its attributes corresponding to the data. Finally, the images and videos were rendered out by Houdini.

Python data crawling

Using Requests to request webpage，BeautifulSoup to analyze it。 Source page | Saved data

Data mapping of dead people attribute

The column height represents the words of Wiki page of him, that is, the indicator of how he has been remembered in Wikipedia. The color represents the age of death, and the darker the color, the longer he lived. (This picture is a 2D visualization using Processing).

Data mapping of 3D position

Z axis represents months，X axis represents the sequence number.

Hounidi VEX，generates geometry corresponding to the data

Render out