november-2011-17-26-feed5623-temperature-3-01

A grasshopper infographic of temperature data taken from Pachube. A custom interface built in grasshopper is used (via sliders) to set the parameters for the Pachube API, which is then sent to a Python script that does the work for pulling the .csv file from online, and the returned data is saved to a text file that is then re-read by Grasshopper, thus outputting this infographic.

Lines/fills were edited in Adobe Illustrator.

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Comment by Adam Laskowitz on February 20, 2013 at 11:56am: I could upload the definition, but I fear it may be hard to parse through, as I even have a hard time understanding what the hell I was doing at the time.

If you would like I can still upload, but I am afraid I won't have time to help parse through it for help. I am rebuilding it currently, but in Processing rather than Grasshopper as I need this for a web visualization.

Comment by mark jongman-sereno on January 30, 2013 at 11:19pm: beautiful!

im trying to do the same but source static info from an excel doc.

any chance you can upload your definition?

Comment by Adam Laskowitz on August 23, 2012 at 12:08pm: Itai, I will try to dig it up.

Comment by Itai Cohen on March 24, 2012 at 5:58pm: Dear Adam,

I'm just trying to do the same, and I have not succeeded with either gHowl or Firefly.

Could you please share your script?

Thanks,

cheers,

Itai

Comment by Adam Laskowitz on December 11, 2011 at 3:45pm: I did try this first through gHowl. Although, from what I can gather, it can not get as specific as I need to get in my analyzing/visualizing Pachube data. Such as specific streams from a specific thread, specific time spans both short-term (x axis) and long-term (y axis). From what I remember (I don't have grasshopper open right now) gHowl's Pachube component only gives you an overview of a specific feed.

Also, Firefly would be useful if these feeds were from my own sensors, alas they are not. I am doing research into visualizing other people's temperature feeds in/near London and comparing that to weather station data.

Thank you for the feedback though!

Comment by Jacek Jaskólski on December 11, 2011 at 3:35pm: nice!
I'm wondering though why the need for a custom script + re-reading of a text file procedure, couldn't one of the Pachube Read components (either Firefly or gHowl) do the job directly? I mean I don't know, haven't played with those too much, just curious.