pond.io

A visualization for your search queries. Presentation slides.

Motivation:

What if you could:

• Know which general topics you’ve been curious about?
• See your search history in a personalized and digestible visual?
• Track trends over time?

Solution: pond.io

Inspired by the intersection of code, data, and art.

Technical Highlights:

Chrome Extension / D3 visualization (JS stack --> REST API Microservice Backend (Flask, Python) --> Applying graph theory & logic --> NLP Text Clustering and Topic Generation Models (Python)

User experience: minimalistic. clean. interesting.

[WIP] Simply download the extension from the Chrome Web store.

Dev mode:

1. Activate/set up virtual environment.
2. pip install -r requirements.txt to install required packages.
3. python3 -B app.py to start Python Flask backend

Contributors:

@cynthia9chen @karenli6