Since the New York Times first opened their article API, several people have built some fun and beautiful visualizations. The New York Times has a “gallery” where they host some of the best, and they’ve rounded up the cream of the crop in a new feature highlighting use of the API in Art.
If you’ve visited the Times Developer Network, you’ve probably noticed that it offers an application gallery. Collections of sample applications are often called “galleries” on the Web, and it’s not always an apt analogy. Browsing an assemblage of apps may be fun on a slow afternoon, but is it really akin to strolling through the wing of your choice at the Met?
Yes — at least sometimes. Visualizations can turn data into art, and several Times API users have created some stunning images that both beautify and clarify information. (The term “visualization” can refer to lots of things, but for our purposes, it’s any graphical representation of nonvisual data.)
via Visualizations: The Art of Times APIs – First Look Blog – NYTimes.com.
What exactly is an API? It sounds cool but I still don’t know what it is.
Collections of sample applications are often called “galleries” on the Web, and it’s not always an apt analogy. Browsing an assemblage of apps may be fun on a slow afternoon