/coldplay

Data exploration of the personality changes over time in the song writing of Coldplay, using Watson Personality Insights. Original sketches by @mcconville

Primary LanguageHTML

Coldplay

Uses Watson Personality Insights to analyze the lyrical changes of the the band Coldplay. Experiments with CSS Houdini for visualizing the data.

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Getting Started

This project plays with the CSS Houdini Paint API you can read more about it here.

The CSS Houdini specifications are only beginning to be adopted by web browsers. I tested my work with the latest versions of Chrome ( version 77 as I write this ).

Prerequisites

This project uses Node JS as a run time environment.

Installing

  1. Assuming you have Node JS installed. Clone this repo, and cd into the folder you've cloned. You should see a file there called app.js. Type the following to install the Node dependencies:
npm install
  1. Rename ibm-credentials.env.sample to ibm-credentials.env, and fill your Personality Insights API key.
PERSONALITY_INSIGHTS_IAM_APIKEY=<api-key>

Running

When the node dependencies have been installed, type the following to run the Node app:

npm start

You should see some output like this:

server starting on http://localhost:3000

Overview

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