Next I added in the RSS feed and made processing pull out data from the title so I knew which feed(s) I was dealing with and the description of the feed which was the number. I made sure that the processing page displayed the name of the feed in the black box at the bottom of the page so I knew that it was working and pulling the correct data.
I changed the description values to integer numbers so that processing could read them as a proper value and changed some of the inputed numbers of the objects to the name of these integers so the program used these numbers to calculate the values of the object. This made sure that the data from the RSS was used to effect what processing produced when it was run.
I assigned these values to the speed of the circles and the colour of the circles so that they were affected when the data changed. The data is not live so it does not change each time the button is pressed but it does change once a day when the new data is uploaded. I also added in text element that showed the rss data in the screen when i did a test run to show that the data was being pulled from the screen. The dots below move across the screen depending on the data and the colours change.
I played around with some of the different RSS feeds to see which one would look better visualised, I tried hot and cold water temperatures as well as a couple of others. They didn't turn out too well so I ended up just sticking with the Wind Speed.
I thought this layout with the 4 spots was quite boring and I could make my data look a bit more appealing. Most of the visualised feeds I looked at didn't relate the visualisation to their data but I wanted to as I thought it gave the visualisation some meaning.
First I changed the background to a sky scene as I thought this would be the best one to do as I was using windspeed as the RSS data. Then I changed the spots to birds flying in the sky, the idea is that the birds fly faster when the wind speed is higher.
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