The survey & analysis section of my dissertation is complete, and I’m really seeing the project as a big picture now as opposed a jumble of ideas floating around in my head. The more I got through the (25-page-limit) report, the more ideas I wanted to incorporate, but unfortunately the only limit isn’t page numbers but also time, so some of my more favourite aspects of the system (query engine, interactive graphs and visualisations, sentiment classification) may end up falling by the wayside if I find other University modules, or the more crucial aspects of the system becoming more time-consuming than anticipated.

However, I am particularly excited about the idea of all the results being visualised in interesting and interactive ways. I have recently been reading David McCandless’s Information is Beautiful and been inspired by the different types of charts he uses, such a Treemaps or Bubble Charts. These, and some others, should be able to be procedurally generated, though some of the more interesting-looking and themed charts would not be so easy.

Anyway, now I’m in Australia for Christmas and looking forward to starting revision, whoo!

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