NY Times API

The NY Times have recently released an API allowing developers to access a huge archive of news and data. This is a perfect example of how an open attitude to intellectual property increases brand awareness because people hack/mould/mash/visualise the data in interesting ways.

The brilliant Jer Thorp has starting putting together some stunning data visualisation with processing.

This is a visualization of the frequency of the words ‘socialism’ (orange) and ‘capitalism’ (green) in New York Times articles since 1981.

This visualization reads like a clock. 12:01am is January 1st1984 and 11:59pm is January 1st 2009.

Built in Processing (http://www.processing.org)

See more at flickr.

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