Project: BC Budget Visualization Tool
Date: September, 2009
Language: Processing
Key Concepts: Data visualization, data organization, sticking it to the man
Overview:
More and more data is being released to the public every day. Big initiatives like the US data.gov and the UK’s upcoming data.hmg.gov.uk are resulting in a mountain of interesting data sets. These transparency initiatives are a step [...]
Project: tree.growth
Date: September, 2006
Language: Processing
Key Concepts: Lindenmayer Systems, recursion, biomimicry
Overview:
NOTE: My apologies for this one being a day late. You’ll notice that I never said 7 consecutive days of source releases!
Today I’m dusting off some old code, and releasing one of my favourite projects. I had hundreds of requests for source over the years, and am finally [...]
Project: NYTimes 365/360
Date: February, 2009
Language: Processing
Key Concepts: Data Visualization, NYTimes Article Search API, HashMaps & ArrayLists
Overview:
Many have you have already seen the series of visualizations that I created early in the year using the newly-released New York Times APIs. The most complex of these were in the 365/360 series in which I tried to distill [...]
Project: GoodMorning!
Date: August, 2009
Language: Processing
Key Concepts: Spherical coordinates, latitude & longitude conversion, Twitter API, MetaCarta API
Overview:
GoodMorning! is a global Twitter visualization tool. It allows tweets to be placed geographically and temporally, showing how a word or phrase is used around the world over a certain time period. You can watch a video here.
The project consists [...]
GoodMorning! is a Twitter visualization tool that shows about 11,000 ‘good morning’ tweets over a 24 hour period, rendering a simple sample of Twitter activity around the globe. The tweets are colour-coded: green blocks are early tweets, orange ones are around 9am, and red tweets are later in the morning. Black blocks are ‘out of [...]
