April 07, 2009

The So Very Great Find

I know I have some explanations to write (i promised so), but now...

Tasty news!

I've been surfing through the Processing documentation, trying to figure out how to actually extract raw data from wherever I'll take it and take it into Processing itself. And I think I've found something!

It's always about keywords. Data flow, visualization, mining, mapping... input, source data... You have very little time to document yourself about a topic, you need to go straight to the point and so you need to find the correct keyword to find where the point is! In this case the keyword was MySQL...

It's not that MySQL is what I was looking for, but that looking for MySQL was the rigtht thing to do! And so I found this very interesting book: "Visualizing Data: Exploring and Explaining Data with the Processing Environment", by some Ben Fry of the University of Bath. So simple it hurts.

It is late. There be more next time.

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