Category Archives: Processing

Visualizing TED Global (Now with 100% more TED Jokes)

By Jer | July 19, 2009

I recently was asked by Wired UK to produce a graphic to accompany an upcoming story about the TED Global event in Oxford, UK. In the process, I’ve learned some interesting things. First of all, the job titles for TED speakers make excellent jokes (if you’ve got some good punchlines for these, leave them in [...]

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Open Science, H1N1, Processing, and the Google Spreadsheet API

By Jer | July 6, 2009

I’ve recently been working on a project with my friend Jennifer Gardy, whose insights into epidemiology and data modeling led me to build Just Landed. Jennifer is currently working at the BC Centre for Disease Control where, among other things, she’s been looking at data related to swine flu genomics. She came to me with an [...]

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Wired UK, July ’09 – Visualizing a Nation’s DNA

By Jer | June 19, 2009

In the spring, I was asked by Wired UK if I would be interested in producing something for the two-page ‘infoporn’ spread that runs in every issue. They had seen my experimentations with the NYTimes APIs, and were interested in the idea of non-conventional data visualizations. After a bit of research, I proposed an piece [...]

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Arduino, XBee and The NYTimes: NewsAlarm goes wireless

By Jer | June 3, 2009

Last month, I built NewsAlarm – a modified smoke alarm wired into the NYTimes NewsWire API. It can be configured to sound in response to any keyword or keywords coming over the wire at a specific frequency; for example, you might set it to alarm when 50% of the headlines coming in contain the words [...]

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Just Landed: Processing, Twitter, MetaCarta & Hidden Data

By Jer | May 11, 2009

I have a friend who has a Ph.D in bioinformatics. Over a beer last week, we ended up discussing the H1N1 flu virus, epidemic modeling, and countless other fascinating and somewhat scary things. She told me that epidemiologists have been experimenting with alternate methods of creating transmission models – specifically, she talked about a group [...]

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