Yesterday, I tweeted a quick thought that I had, while walking the dog:
A few people asked me to expand on this, so let’s give it a try:
We are facing a very different data-related problem today than we were facing only a few years ago. Back then, the call was solely for more information. Since then, [...]
I was asked at the end of last week to produce a graphic for the Opinion page today – the idea was to compare the texts of various ’state of the union’ addresses from around the world. The final result (pictured above) is not extraordinarily data-heavy. It worked quite nicely in the printed layout, where [...]
I was very much moved by Maggie Steber’s photo essay in The New York Times, titled ‘No End of Trouble. Ever.‘
The essay talks about Haiti’s violent history, and of the countries incredible tendency towards misfortune:
“How can nature or God or the fates or the universe do this to a country that has borne far too [...]
In October, I read a fascinating article on GQ.com about head injuries among former NFL players. Written by Jeanne Marie Laskas, the article was a forensic detective story, documenting a little known doctor’s efforts to bring the brain trauma issue to the attention of the medical community, the NFL, and the general public. It is [...]
Project: NYTimes GraphMaker
Date: Fall, 2009
Language: Processing
Key Concepts: Data vizualization, graphing, NYTimes Article Search API
Overview:
The New York Times Article Search API gives us access to a mountain of data: more than 2.6 million indexed articles. There must be countless discoveries waiting to be made in this vast pile of information – we just need more people [...]
