Week 5

Data Mining

Mark Hansen & Ben Rubin:

• Listening Post (videos part 1, part 2 and part 4)
• Moveable Type

Golan Levin & al:

• The Secret Lives of Numbers
• The Dumpster

Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar:

• We Feel Fine (TED talk)
• I Want You To Want Me (video)

Jonathan Harris - Universe

Lev Manovich - Cultural Analytics

Workshop - Getting data from the Web

Basic tools:
loadStrings(), loadImage()

Basic terminology (URL, HTTP, REST, CSV, XML)

List of Web APIs

Processing demos: accessing the Technorati and Last.fm APIs.

Source code from the lecture. Unzip into your sketchbook folder.

Final project proposal

Start thinking about what you would like to do for your final project. The proposal will be a 1 pager describing your data source and what you intend to do with the data (what you want to show, what story want to tell, what you want to express, etc...)