Sousveillance Tool: Is it that humid in Korea?
Description
"Is it that humid in Korea?"
This data visualization shows the current humidity of South Korea,
Seoul. (This was not exactly what I wanted, but it's similar)
Design Process
Initial Idea
Before designing anything, I thought about what kind of sousveillance tool I could create as I looked through the API list. Then I remembered seeing this non-sense news arguing that ever since the current president start his term as president, there have been more natural disasters. It was not understandable that the news will let an article like this be published. So, I wanted to compare the natural disasters(mountain fire, flood, etc) with previous years. Since I wanted to show that this was wrong, I wanted the design to look like a poster. For the data, I decided to use the open weather API since they had a history of weather API.
Failures
I tried to use the history weather API, but I was not able to use that data. I'm still not sure, but it's maybe because I need to pay for that. I found free air pollution data within open weather API, so I tried to use that instead. However, although I was able to get the main data, I was not able to get the components data that I needed. I couldn't figure out why. Also, the problem with this was that to get data from a specific date, I needed UNIX time. I tried to convert the actual time input to UNIX time, but I wasn't able to get the data.
Backup Idea
So...I wasn't able to get the data I wanted, so I tried to get the data that might be similar to the ones I wanted. Instead of the flood, I tried to get the humidity data. That worked, so I used the One Call API for this project.
The digital sketch I made shows the level system that I thought of. If the humidity is low, there won't be blue dots on the top. However, if the humidity is high, the dots will cover the canvas. I figured that this would be an effective way to show humidity at a glance.
Reflection
I could say that this was the MOST DIFFICULT PROJECT EVER!! I never failed so bad...The ideation part was difficult and also calling the data was very difficult.(It was fun though) I hope I could find a way to get that air pollution data to work.
Credits
Loading API 10.5: Working with APIs in Javascript - p5.js Tutorial by The Coding Train