NY Times mentions of "olympics" and "election", 1981-2011

Remember that awesome Twitter visualization of airplane flights that floated around about two years ago called Just Landed? How about Good Morning, the visualization of people tweeting the words “good morning” over a 24-hour period? What they have in common is that they were created by artist Jer Thorp, who is currently Data Artist in Residence at New York Times and a visiting professor at NYU’s ITP program. I’ve been following Jer’s work for some time, so I was very excited to see recently that he was offering workshops in Processing (a data visualization tool that I use and have mentioned in previous posts). I’ve used Processing for a few dataviz projects at work, and I’d really like to do a lot more. Foursquare has an amazing dataset, and I feel like I’m wasting an opportunity if I’m not always trying out new ways of exploring that data through visualization.

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