Category Archives: Processing

Wired UK, Barabási Lab and BIG data

By Jer | July 12, 2010

Over the last year, I’ve produced five data-driven pieces for Wired UK. Four of them have been for the two-page infoporn spread that can be found in every issue. I’ve looked at the UK’s National DNA Database, used mined Twitter data to find people’s travel paths, and mapped traffic in some of the world’s busiest [...]

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Your Random Numbers – Getting Started with Processing and Data Visualization

By Jer | April 11, 2010

Over the last year or so, I’ve spent almost as much time thinking about how to teach data visualization as I’ve spent working with data. I’ve been a teacher for 10 years – for better or for worse this means that as I learn new techniques and concepts, I’m usually thinking about pedagogy at the [...]

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The Missing Piece of the OpenData / OpenGov Puzzle: Education

By Jer | March 7, 2010

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. [...]

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State of the Union(s)

By Jer | January 28, 2010

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 [...]

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Unlucky Haiti (1981-2009)

By Jer | January 14, 2010

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 [...]

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