Yale People Visualizer

An art project that visualizes movement of students throughout Yale campus.

This project was my submission for Module 1 of CPSC 3340, "Creative Embedded Systems."

You can view a writeup of my process here.

Run the project

Run the data pipeline

Processed data is included in the repository, but in case you want to run the data pipeline yourself, do the following:

1. Ask the Coursetable team to get you a .csv dump of student worksheets.
2. Copy data-pipeline/.env.template to data-pipeline/.env. In your Google Cloud project, enable the Google Maps Places (New) API. Create a service account, generate a secret, and paste it into the env file.
3. Run the four js files, one after the other.

Run the frontend

Simply open the index.html file in your browser.

Start kiosk mode on boot

If you are running this on an embedded system (like a RasPi) and you want the web application to start in fullscreen mode on boot, follow these steps.

1. chmod +x kiosk/start.sh
2. Change the paths in kiosk/start.sh and kiosk/people_visualizer.service
3. sudo systemctl enable kiosk/people_visualizer.service