Hi! You might be wondering, where the hell am I?
Welcome to Pogs Per Minute – a place on the Internet where emotions get visualized. Well, some of them.
Let me explain. If you have ever heard of Twitch, you know how Pog some moments are, right? Maybe one of your favorite streamers was the only survivor after a butt-clenching stand-off in Athena Research Institute, maybe someone else finally defeated Sigrún – the Valkyrie Queen from God of War after sitting there for 24 hours, or, maybe, they finally managed to finish that puzzle you nailed on your first try.
Chat goes crazy, you can barely see and track messages since they disappear in a split second in the river of Pogs, Hypes, Loves and your other favorite emotes. I love when that happens!..
What I love just as much is visualizing and organizing data in an attractive manner.
What’s chat, if you think about it? Objects of data with timestamps and text. Okay, and what are emotes? They’re tiny graphical portrayals of emotions coded as text, right?..
It would be kind of awesome to see how those emotions plot along the timeline of a stream, wouldn’t it?
This site is exactly that – a site made out of sheer curiosity, appreciation, and desire to share something cool with everyone else. It doesn’t collect any personal data, it doesn’t even do anything else – it’s here to share the data visualizations I made.
Intrigued? Why don’t you start with the first one?