Hacking the Newsroom
This is the slide deck for a presentation I gave this year at FlashBelt, Flash on the Beach, and Flash on Tap. Despite the names of these conferences, the presentation has nothing to do with Flash.
Here is the session description:
"In February, the New York Times announced that it was giving away the keys to 28 years of data - news stories, movie reviews, obituaries, and political statistics - all for free. Wether the dying gasp of an legendary institution, or the beginnings of an extraordinary rebirth, the release of this vast and historically significant information is a boon to data visualizers, entrepreneurs, social scientists and artists around the world.
In this session, Jer will show a variety of work that he has produced using data from The New York Times and The Guardian newspapers. He'll show how to access this information easily in Flash and Processing, and will share code samples to get you started in explorations of your own. Along the way, he'll attempt to examine how a new era of open data is affecting science, art, and design."
39. “Depicting networks is a tricky subject, and too often leads to
representations that are a tangled and complicated mess. Such
diagrams are often referred to with terms like ball of yarn or string, a
birds nest, cat hair or simply hairball.”
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41. “It’s also common for a network diagram to be engaging and
attractive for its complexity (usually aided and abetted by color),
which tends to hide how poorly it conveys the meaning of the data it
represents.”
84. checrothers: Just landed in Dakar, Senegal… Another 9
hours n I’ll be in South Africa two entire days after I
left … Doodles
85. jjvirgin: Just landed in Maui and I feel better already …
Four days here then off to vegas
86. Queen_Btch: just landed in London heading to the pub
for a drink then im of to bed…so tired who knew
hooking up on an airplane would be so tiring =S
88. Queen_Btch: just landed in London heading to the pub
for a drink then im of to bed…so tired who knew
hooking up on an airplane would be so tiring =S
89. {
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"DefaultSymbol" : {
"URL" : "http://ondemand.metacarta.com/img/symbols/location-marker.png",
"Width" : 30,
"Height" : 30
}
}
},
"Attribution" : "Copyright 1999-2007 MetaCarta",
"Warnings" : [
],
"MinConfidence" : 0,
"Locations" : [
{
"Confidence" : 0.733898,
"Name" : "London, London, United Kingdom",
"LocID" : "5fa97789b17a6a098040de968a11d86a",
"Style" : "loc",
"Centroid" : {
"Latitude" : 51.52,
"Longitude" : -0.1
},
"RemainingQuery" : "queen_btch: just landed heading pub for a drink then im bed…so tired who knew hooking up an airplane would be so tiring =s",
"Path" : [
"London",
"London",
"United Kingdom"
],
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}
}
],
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"BBox" : {
"MaxLatitude" : 90,
"MinLongitude" : -180,
"MaxLongitude" : 180,
"MinLatitude" : -90
},
"ResultsCreationTime" : "Fri May 29 13:15:36 2009 UTC",
"Query" : "Queen_Btch: just landed in London heading to the pub for a drink then im of to bed…so tired who knew hooking up on an airplane would be so tiring =S
",
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}
100. Fiat Completes Acquisition of Chrysler Assets
Poll Finds Paterson Deeply Unpopular
Feeling Slighted, Rich Patron Led Albany Revolt
Palau to Take Chinese Guantánamo Detainees
filter NewsAlarm
28 Reported Killed in South Iraq Market Bombing
Just in Time, the Magic Goes Back to Basics
Brighton passes vomit bylaw
Feeling Slighted, Rich Patron Led Albany Revolt
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104. Fiat Completes Acquisition of Chrysler Assets
Poll Finds Paterson Deeply Unpopular
Feeling Slighted, Rich Patron Led Albany Revolt
Palau to Take Chinese Guantánamo Detainees
filter NewsAlarm
28 Reported Killed in South Iraq Market Bombing
Just in Time, the Magic Goes Back to Basics
Brighton passes vomit bylaw
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Feeling Slighted, Rich Patron Led Albany Revolt vomit
