npedrini / artefacts

Visualization of user-submitted dreams and the tags they share as an interactive node-link diagram

Artefacts of the Collective Unconscious

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Artefacts of the Collective Unconscious is an experimental web project that visualizes user-submitted dreams to playfully suggest a hive mind at work, informing our dreamtime.

The site uses the free AlchemyAPI to run sentiment analysis on the submitted dream descriptions, and the extracted tags are rendered as nodes along with the dreams themselves using D3.

The project requires a server running PHP 5 and MySQL.

Installation instructions:

• Clone the repo and extract
• Create a local or remote mysql db for the project and import the sql dump located at config/schema.sql
• Open config/config.php and set the db connection information and any other configuration variables
• Move the extracted folder to a local or remote web server
  • NOTE: the import and dummy_data directories are only necessary if you plan on importing sample data
• Optionally, import the dreams at dummy_data/dreams.csv by visiting http://[install location]/import/import_dreams.php