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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
