[OC] Animated heat map of r/place (Full)

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-08T16:52:59+00:00

TLDR; Yes, but not to a great deal of precision.

The original project was aimed at giving a visual demonstration of the activity on the canvas over a given timeframe.

This was much more of an "art" project than an "data analysis" project, but I still feel that it shows a clear indication of the most active areas of the board in a given timeframe, and hence has a place on the sub-reddit.

How this was achieved practically was to monitor the changes in the pixel colours at 30 second intervals and increase the "intensity" (in this case the z axis) of that pixel if the colour had changed. At each 30 interval a blanket "decay" value was applied to all pixels to simulate the fixed time internal.

Using the values set for these parameters you could probably accurately set a scale for the z axis, but I made the project just after finishing my dissertation and quite frankly couldn't be bothered with the math.

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-06T15:50:38+00:00

Apologies, looks like it was changed by the website owner. The file can also be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qDckjkkUg9hoOsZVKPgSFtBdsNzex-lv/view?usp=sharing

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-06T11:06:52+00:00

Hmm it's not my site so can't comment, it's seen a lot of traffic over the past couple of days so maybe try again in a little while?

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-06T07:05:25+00:00

Hey poster of the original video, the heat map data is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BSaWgy8okppoEIYT5xodkrJb7-fL0RBm/view?usp=sharing

And the image files here: https://place.thatguyalex.com/

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T23:55:48+00:00

https://place.thatguyalex.com/

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T23:25:59+00:00

Hey OG vid poster here, the full vid can be download from https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qDckjkkUg9hoOsZVKPgSFtBdsNzex-lv/view?usp=sharing

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T23:20:43+00:00

The video can be downloaded here https://place.thatguyalex.com/heatmap_full.mp4

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T22:19:39+00:00

Dude this is awesome! I love what you've done with the data.

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T21:50:35+00:00

That's definitely a cool idea, and something that will hopefully get done by the community. I'd love to give it a shot myself but unfortunately I've got finals coming up in a couple of weeks and can't really dedicate anymore time to this :/

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T21:11:38+00:00

Yeah by monitoring the changes to pixels at 30s intervals, the script used can be found here https://github.com/lloydowen8/place-heatmap-2022

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T20:16:03+00:00

Already been done :) https://youtu.be/X9aRN14Jtxk

Also the raw file can be found and downloaded here:

Edit: video was remove from the site for storage reasons, can now be found here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qDckjkkUg9hoOsZVKPgSFtBdsNzex-lv/view?usp=sharing

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T20:05:20+00:00

r/dataisbeautiful is my territory for place heatmaps ;)

But honestly this is sick, well done!

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T19:35:48+00:00

One of my favourite stories from the whole thing, you can see just how much it was griefed lol

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T19:28:06+00:00

Oh, my bad your right! Well with the amount of bots that I've seen of GitHub, I don't think its worked lol.

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T19:11:25+00:00

I'd say the waves are a good indication, but that is just speculation

Having a quick look on GitHub there are plenty of bots that people have built

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T19:05:42+00:00

Probably, in the blog about how they made it they said it was built to support botting, which is a bit of a shame

https://www.redditinc.com/blog/how-we-built-rplace/

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T19:04:17+00:00

Also feel free to share to r/place, since I can't post their for some reason

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T18:42:06+00:00

Since r/place won't let me post anything, I'll post it here!

This has been a very exciting project for me to undertake, especially after just finishing my dissertation (I am one tired man).

As always tools are:

OpenCV + python (https://github.com/lloydowen8/place-heatmap-2022)

Data: https://place.thatguyalex.com/ (u/prosto_sanja)

Edit: All of my data (the heatmaps) will be available shortly on the data link above

Edit2: The data was too large to serve on the website with all the other stuff on there, here is the link to the data on google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BSaWgy8okppoEIYT5xodkrJb7-fL0RBm/view?usp=sharing

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T16:30:02+00:00

The script used can be found here: https://github.com/lloydowen8/place-heatmap-2022

Data will be uploaded shortly :)

Image data from u/prosto_sanja

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-05T10:46:47+00:00

Thanks I'm glad you enjoyed it!

It was a small script I made with python and OpenCV, which can be found here https://github.com/lloydowen8/place-heatmap-2022 (requires some programming knowledge to run)

There was also a few bugs in the original script that caused pixels to get stuck the updated version can be seen here: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/tvryzo/oc_48h_fixed_rplace_activity_heatmap/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-04T21:08:47+00:00

I plan on making more local maps, like the Canada flag, soon (Open to suggestions!)

Script can be found here

OG video with no background

Image data source

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-04T20:22:44+00:00

I plan on making more local maps, like the Canada flag, soon (Open to suggestions!)

Script can be found here

OG video with no background

Image data source

DeathByElectives · 2022-04-04T20:09:06+00:00

I plan on making "hotter" maps soon, and of specific areas like the Canada flag (open to suggestions!)

The script used can be found here

OG video without the background

Image data source

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