Category Archives: Processing

7 Days of Source Day #1: GoodMorning!

By Jer | October 11, 2009

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 [...]

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GoodMorning!

By Jer | August 23, 2009

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 [...]

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Is Twitter the new Internet?

By Jer | July 30, 2009

In February, I created this graph, which shows the frequency of usage of the terms ‘internet’, ‘web’ and ‘twitter’ in the New York Times from the 1990-2008: In it, Twitter appears as a small, barely visible scattering of orange bars in the far right corner of the graph. Curious to see how this has changed, [...]

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We Are Beginning to See Positive Signs for our Industry — Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Freddie Mac & Fanny Mae: 1984-2009

By Jer | July 28, 2009

For The Data Art Show in June at the Pink Hobo Gallery in Minneapolis, I created a 20′ long print visualizing the major players in the financial crisis, and their in-print relationships. The Print, titled ‘We Are Beginning to See Positive Signs for our Industry — Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Freddie Mac & Fanny Mae [...]

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Quick Tutorial: Twitter & Processing

By Jer | July 21, 2009

Accessing information from the Twitter API with Processing is easy. A few people have sent me e-mails asking how it all works, so I thought I’d write a very quick tutorial to get everyone up on their feet. We don’t need to know too much about how the Twitter API functions, because someone has put [...]

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