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Projects: Section 2
Creatively visualize or display some data you obtain from an API in order to express a point of view. Some starting points for ideas:
- What is the intended or expected use of the API or the data you're obtaining, and how might you use it differently?
- What doesn't the API allow you to do, and how could you work around this? How could you "break" an API?
- How might you present data to influence the perspectives, actions and decisions of others?
- What are some unexpected or uncomfortable datasets we don't often think about?
- What is the most interesting data you can find? What is an unexpected way to experience it?
Check out this section for links to many APIs you might use. Feel free to search for others that aren't on this list.
This project can be broken into two parts: (1) getting the data from the API, and (2) displaying it somehow. Either part can be done programmatically or by hand.
- Amelia Winger-Bearskin Native American Search Term NYT API using p5
- Jingwen Zhu: Pinstagram
- Kaz Sakamoto: Foursquare Checkins Foursquare Art in Chelsea
- Rubin Huang: DNA Data
- Pat Shiu: Citi Bikes Available
- Nicholas Hagans: Instagram Visibility (Need instagram.html, instagram1.js, and jquery to view)
- AV(Sehyun Kim): [Google Map] (http://104.131.12.68:3005/)
- Brigitte Jellinek: Hip vs Clean comparing foursquare rankings and restaurant inspection scores for NYC restaurants
- Ainsley O'Connell: [#gunporn] (http://www.ainsleyoc.com/critical-apis/project-1-instagrams-gunporn/)
- Jeremy White: [headline poems] (https://github.com/jkentwhite/criticalApis/tree/master/assignmentOne)
- Crystal Brusch: [school vs. pawn shop] (http://104.131.171.244:3000/project1/)
Use a web scraping technique to obtain some data not easily obtained from an API. Present this data in some interesting way. Some starting points for ideas:
- What data are we not able to normally access? Why not?
- How could you recontextualize some information you find online to present a different point of view?
- How could you make the data available to others? Think low-tech as well as high-tech.
#####Projects:
- Crystal Brusch github | dull ideas
- Pat Shiu pr0n.works
- Brigitte Jellinek Facebook Archive Explorer
- Jingwen Zhu Mood Board
- Nicholas Hagans Traffic Camera
The final project is open-ended. You can further develop one of your previous projects, or you can create something new. In any case, it should be a creative project that is inspired by the concepts we've covered this semester and expresses a point of view.
You should feel free to think non-traditionally, final projects can take any form. Think about how your work may be best communicated and most affecting. Possibilities include video, website, intervention, physical object, performance, essay, or anything else. You may work together. You are welcome to use any language or tool for your work.
Some possibilities include:
- Create a visualization that reveals something unexpected.
- Use data obtained via an API to create a false or misleading portrait of someone or something.
- Subvert, misuse, or break an API in an interesting way.
- Dive deep into quantified self and use the data to modify or influence yours or someone else's life.
- Create a performance or intervention that makes us aware of some system or data you feel strongly about.
- Visualize data using unexpected materials or medium.
- Scrape or somehow obtain access to data you wouldn't normally be able to, and make it available to others via an API you create.
- Design a custom API that allows others to control something else in the world, and invite others to use it.
- Create a physical device or object that is controlled by data you obtain via an API.
- Create a physical interface that lets people experience data obtained via an API.
- Anything else of your choosing!
#####Projects:
- Pat Shiu: http://caption.pr0n.works/
- AV: Citi Weather, (github)
- Crystal: [dull ideas (again)] (http://104.131.171.244:3000/project3/)
- Nicholas Hagans: Cameras on Route