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Scripts

Scripts have a variety of applications with regard to narrative/image:

Process the pixels of a video [1]
Assistant editor: Generate one or more edits,
Respond to (live) input (data, user interaction)
Assemble various forms of data to create new narratives

Examples of data-driven drama

From text to video...

I love alaska, "The heartbreaking search history of AOL user #711391"
Videogrep Subtitles + Search = Automatic Edit
Epicpedia, by PZI alum Annemieke van der Hoek

Epicpedia

A wikipedia article:

and its history:

Wikipedia has an API

Every Mediawiki (by default) supports the API:

http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/mediawiki/api.php

Etiquette

API

URL Structure:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
 ?
 titles=Epic_theatre
 action=query
 rvlimit=10
 prop=revisions
 format=json
 rvprop=user|timestamp|content|comment

becomes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?titles=Epic_theatre&action=query&rvlimit=10&prop=revisions&format=json&rvprop=user%7Ctimestamp%7Ccontent%7Ccomment

JSONView

Browser extensions that specifically handle JSON are handy!

http://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/jsonview/

JSON Response

Anatomy of a tweet

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/this_is_what_a_tweet_looks_like.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Twitter

http://dev.twitter.com/

Searching twitter

Bad Authentication data

https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%23man

Welcome to the new API

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/faq#10659 October 2012

Rules of the Road

https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new October 2012

Changing APIs

http://automatist.org/blog/2012/09/08/youtube-who-tags/

RSS

http://sociable.co/social-media/twitter-hasnt-killed-rss-just-yet-heres-how-to-find-your-twitter-feed-rss-url/

Alternatives to APIs

RSS Feed (when available)
Scraping

Assignment

Without using code, find a feed/data API of interest and make a mockup/prototype using (solely) the data it contains. The emphasis here is to focus on revealing something interesting in the data that is not necessarily evident in a public / "normal" view of that same data. On the basis of your mockup, you will then make a plan for realizing the sketch in code in the coming week.

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-== Two examples of data-driven drama ==
+<slidy theme="aa" />
-From data to video...
+== Scripts ==
+Scripts have a variety of applications with regard to narrative/image:
+* Process the pixels of a video [http://seriouslyjs.org/]
+* Assistant editor: Generate one or more edits,
+* Respond to (live) input (data, user interaction)
+* Assemble various forms of data to create new narratives
+== Examples of data-driven drama ==
+From text to video...
 * [http://www.minimovies.org/documentaires/view/ilovealaska I love alaska], "The heartbreaking search history of AOL user #711391"
+* [[Videogrep]] Subtitles + Search = Automatic Edit
 * [http://epicpedia.org/ Epicpedia], by PZI alum Annemieke van der Hoek
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 == Wikipedia has an [[API]] ==
-http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
+* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page About the API]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php The API itself]
+Every Mediawiki (by default) supports the API:
+* http://pzwart3.wdka.hro.nl/mediawiki/api.php
+== Etiquette ==
+[[File:WikipediaAPIEtiquette.png]]
+== API ==
+URL Structure:
+  http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php
+  ?
+  titles=Epic_theatre
+  action=query
+  rvlimit=10
+  prop=revisions
+  format=json
+  rvprop=user|timestamp|content|comment
+becomes:
+http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?titles=Epic_theatre&action=query&rvlimit=10&prop=revisions&format=json&rvprop=user|timestamp|content|comment
+== JSONView ==
+Browser extensions that specifically handle JSON are handy!
+http://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/jsonview/
+== JSON Response ==
-== Feeds & APIs ==
+[[File:WikipediaEpicTheatre.png]]
-* [http://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/search/tweets Searching twitter]
-* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API Wikipedia] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php)
 == Anatomy of a tweet ==
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 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/this_is_what_a_tweet_looks_like.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
+== Twitter ==
+http://dev.twitter.com/
+* [http://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1.1/get/search/tweets Searching twitter]
+== Bad Authentication data ==
+[[File:Twittersearchapichange.png]]
+https://api.twitter.com/1.1/search/tweets.json?q=%23man
+== Welcome to the new API ==
+[[File:TwitterAPI11.png]]
+https://dev.twitter.com/docs/faq#10659 October 2012
+== Rules of the Road ==
+[[File:TwitterDevelopersRulesOfTheRoad.png]]
+https://dev.twitter.com/apps/new October 2012
+== Changing APIs ==
+http://automatist.org/blog/2012/09/08/youtube-who-tags/
+== RSS ==
+http://sociable.co/social-media/twitter-hasnt-killed-rss-just-yet-heres-how-to-find-your-twitter-feed-rss-url/
+== Alternatives to APIs ==
+* [[RSS Feed]] (when available)
+* [[Scraping]]
+== Assignment ==
+Without using code, find a feed/data API of interest and make a mockup/prototype using (solely) the data it contains. The emphasis here is to focus on revealing something interesting in the data that is not necessarily evident in a public / "normal" view of that same data. On the basis of your mockup, you will then make a plan for realizing the sketch in code in the coming week.
+== Links ==
+* http://www.colourlovers.com/api
+* https://github.com/huang47/css-crawler
+* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China
+* http://services.tineye.com/TinEyeAPI
+* http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API
+* http://tribune.com.pk/story/429025/apple-shoots-down-drone-strike-tracking-iphone-app/
+* http://www.goodiff.org/