From the course: Creating Projects for Interactive Data Visualization with Processing
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Comprehensive solution: From a spreadsheet to the web - Processing Tutorial
From the course: Creating Projects for Interactive Data Visualization with Processing
Comprehensive solution: From a spreadsheet to the web
Our assignment for this end project is to create an interactive visualization of Google Trends data about searches for various opera composers. Now, my solution for this begins with picking the colors. I went to Adobe's Kuler, that's kuler. I went to kuler.adobe.com. And I found a palette that I thought worked well for the visualization. And coped the hex codes down into this. Above that, I have a comment that doesn't say what the colors are, but it says what their purposes or their roles are so I know which one to use. The next thing, is I have two fonts that I'm going to be using. I'm going to be using a large, thick font for the title, and a smaller thinner font for the labels on the grid. In processing, you actually need to go through a process to create each one of these fonts, and that's what I'm going to do right now. We go up to Tools to create font. And the first one we're going to get, I'm going to move this off to the side, is Arial Black 32 pt. Now, by the way…
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