Snake, the twitterbot – an experiment in game design

snake is a procedural fable that uses judeo-christian imagery to show the dangers of unchecked growth, i.e., capitalism [@aparrish] In this blog post, we present a port of the Snake game to Twitter. We detail some of the (twisted) game design choices we made, along with code (please follow the links) and explanations. The whole project is available on GitHub (100%… Continue reading Snake, the twitterbot – an experiment in game design

Créer un Twitterbot avec R : le Teletext suisse sur Twitter

«C’est comme si on arrivait à enfiler un vinyle dans un lecteur MP3.» [Nicolae Schiau] Dans ce billet de blog, nous décrivons le processus de réalisation d’un Twitterbot avec R. Le code est disponible ici. If you do not read French but are just interested by how to code a Twitterbot with R, you can find the code here. Hackathon SSR… Continue reading Créer un Twitterbot avec R : le Teletext suisse sur Twitter

Visualising Networks Part 1: A Critique

Thanks to the facilitated access to network analysis tools and the growing interest in many disciplines towards studying the relations structuring datasets, networks have become ubiquitous objects in science, in newspapers, on tech book covers, all over the Web, and to illustrate anything big data-related (hand in hand with word clouds.). Unfortunately, the resort to networks has reached a point where in… Continue reading Visualising Networks Part 1: A Critique