Googling “Selfie” Throughout the Years Data Visualization Project

Meredith Vertrees, Sarah Keener, and Charis Yarboro

Link to Visualization: http://www.jjsylvia.com/bigdatacourse/googleselfie/

Our group created a data visualization using data from GoogleCorrelate to follow the trends of the word “selfie” in the Google search engine. Our data set began January of 2004 and goes through  January of 2016. The visualization was created using p5.js code in the program p5.js.

The visualization follows the collected data of the number of searches for the term “selfie” represented as an ellipse that grows in accordance to the displayed month and year as the term becomes more popular and spikes around 2014. There is a slider bar that allows the user to scroll through the months between 2004 and 2016 to view the search popularity for the term “selfie” relative to the size of the ellipse displayed.

We also plan to submit our project to the Code+Art competition.

Link to the “Selfie” data we used: https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=selfie&t=monthly&p=us