Data viz using the New York Times Newswire API (swf)
The Newswire API is returning the last 20 updates to the Times website. My data viz is analyzing that data based on section & time submitted. Each update is signified by the small light blue boxes. Its value along the y axis signifies what category it falls into (based on what section heading it’s on the same line as) and its x axis value signifies the time when it was submitted (in relation to the earliest and most recent updates).
Data viz mockup using same data
This mockup is a play on TalkLikeWarrenEllis.com, which randomly generates phrases based on his tweets (example: “Good day, sleek piranha of impending doom.”) albeit much less hilarious. The idea is that it would take headlines from the TimesWire and split them up around punctuation marks and randomly generate sentences based on those pieces.