At PublicMediaCamp today, I gave a quick introduction to Processing and visualization of data in general. Here’s some useful links:

• Data.GOV: http://www.data.gov/
• Processing: http://processing.org
• Processing.JS: http://processingjs.org/
• The Ball Drop Demo: http://balldroppings.com/js/
• The Moving Curtain Demo: http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/my-little-piece-of-privacy-processing/
• Ben Fry’s Processing Book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596514557?ie=UTF8&tag=processing09-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0596514557
• Edward Tufte: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/

And the code for the two demos I shared:

• Antenna Visualization: https://gist.github.com/709150
• Ham Radio Visualization: https://gist.github.com/709152

Good luck, and keep in touch – bfo (at) ussjoin (dot) com if you want to email me.