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Building a Weather Dashboard with JSON Data

You’ve created Processing sketches that change based on user input, but you can also make art pieces that respond to data. The Internet places a vast amount of varied information right at your fingertips, so Naturally there are a number of ways to collect that data.

In this project, I’ll teach you how to harness online data to create a simple weather dashboard that you can customize on your own. The key to this project is finding a way to get all that weather information into a Processing sketch, and that’s where JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) comes in. JSON is a standard for communicating data across different tools and languages, and it’s a popular way of formatting information on the Web (since ...

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