Process

My initial idea for this project was to create a data selfie based on your online activity, I wanted users to visualize how they used the internet. However I was stuck on what data to gather on this and how I would gather it. I then decided to implement the use of an API to gather data which brought about the idea of using Spotify as it has many available functions and was classed as relatively easy to work with. 

I planned out some draft visualization concepts shown below and then picked the idea that seemed most feasible by my coding abilities! 

For me, this project ran through a difficult process. The initial set up of the Spotify API wasn't too difficult and it was easy enough to get the JSON data parsing into processing. The real struggle came when I had to draw out the genre based circles. I had trouble figuring out how to draw a different circle for each genre as when I drew a circle from the genres string it would only draw one. I only managed to solve this problem due to some advice from people who actually knew some Java.