Week 5

Online Data Mining

This week we will:

• think of the Web as a large database
• look at artists and researchers who capture, filter and present this data in thoughtful ways
• learn how to access web databases from Processing using REST interfaces and XML
• do some basic text manipulation and filtering in Processing

Links

Mark Hansen & Ben Rubin:

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

Golan Levin & al:

• The Dumpster

Jonathan Harris

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

A few smaller projects as well:

• Jer Thorpe - Just Landed
• Tim Schwartz - Paris
• CFC Media Lab - Found Wanting

Lev Manovich - Cultural Analytics

NY Times Labs - Project Cascade