Category Archives: Processing

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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The Truth is In There: Research & Discovery with The Guardian Content API

By Jer | April 28, 2009

An article I wrote for The Guardian‘s Open Platform Blog was published earlier this week. It looks at some simple ways to use Processing to access information from the Guardian’s Content API. You can read the whole article and follow along with a short tutorial here.

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Summer Creative Coding Workshops in Vancouver: Processing, Processing, Processing!

By Jer | April 6, 2009

For years I have been teaching programming courses of various varieties at Langara College, as part of their Electronic Media Design program. The course I teach is great – I get to introduce programming to groups of designers over 14 weeks, starting with Processing and moving into ActionScript. The problem is, this course is only [...]

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NYT: This was 1984

By Jer | February 18, 2009

This series of images uses the faceted searching abilities of the NYTimes Article Search API to construct maps of the top organizations & people mentioned in articles for a given news year. Connections between these entities are drawn, so that relationships can be found and followed. The maps posted so far in the Flickr set [...]

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Multi-faceted Searching with the NYTimes APIs

By Jer | February 12, 2009

In my last post, I walked through the process of making simple requests to the New York Times Article Search API. Near the end of the post, I mentioned that the API allows for something called ‘faceted searching’ which can make the whole process a bit easier, and which can also allow users to uncover [...]

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