Tutorials 2017

Bots: Automated Language

Bots and automated language are taking over the internet and even our cities. Most recently the artist, James Bridle, has critiqued the video-making bots which algorithmically splice together children’s video often producing creepy and even violent videos. But as topics of algorithms…

Video Capture in Windows 10

In some of my previous posts, I wanted to create a .gif animated image using a PC with Windows 10, but couldn’t without installing third-party software. Because I didn’t have administrator privileges to the computer I was using (in lab), I was forced to record the animation using…

Populations

Showing Size

Sometimes simply showing size or relative size of something can be extremely powerful. The…

Making Interactive Data Markers in SlippyMapper

Tutorial to map your tweets

After draining William’s knowledge and energy this afternoon … (thank you sooo much!!) … I managed to do some pretty awesome stuff with SlippyMapper and Twitter.

I am posting the whole code here for everyone to get what you need from it but basically it…

Tutorial for Cleaning Twitter JSON Data

Hey guys, if you’ve downloaded your twitter JSON data and tried to ‘traverse’ it following the tutorial, you might see an error like this:

Image Screening and Making “Layers”

How to load an image in:

def setup():
    global img
    size(620,240)

    #rename image to match your image name in your data folder
    img = loadImage("location-2-0.jpg")
    image(img,0,0)
  
def draw():
    #…

Structured Data: Lists and Dictionaries

A list:

schools = ['Columbia University', 'NYU', 'Cooper Union']

A dictionary:

schools = {
    'institution name':'Columbia University', 
    'student poplation':34000, 
    'degree…

Working with JSON in Processing.py

JSON, or JavaScript Object Notation, is a common data interchange format, meaning that it’s used to…