These visualizations based on the New York Times Article API by digital artist Jer Thorp are fantastic! Thorp compares the frequency of words such as “regulation” and “innovation” (as shown in the first image) in New York Times articles since 1982 and uses Processing to generate these graphs. Some of his visualizations are available as prints at his Etsy store.
I’d love to learn how to use Processing. I downloaded it last year and had a lot of trouble getting it set up. Looks a little over my head, but seeing visuals like this gets me excited to try to figure it out as drawing them out by hand would be an absolute pain. Plus the flexibility to alter the data sets to change the graphs is appealing once you’ve written the program.
