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✨ Thinking and working with data in our programs is a key way to make them more manageable, more organized, and more exciting! It forces us to be more aware of what’s important in our program, and to make sure we can express that information clearly. Your programs will thank you! ✨

Learning objectives

• Understanding how to use data to simplify a program
• Understanding and using JSON data in a program

Template

• template-p5-project.zip

Modules

Vimeo playlist for Data

(Inline links below are for YuJa)

• Thinking with data
  • Download the Machines project
  • Watch the video
  • Read the Thinking with data notes
• JSON
  • Download the Tarot project
  • Watch the video
  • Read the JSON notes
• Debugging Data
  • Download the Debugging Data project
  • Watch the video

Examples

• See the Data Collection in Pippin’s p5 editor for a series of Visual Novel-inspired examples, a localization example, better state data for states, and a data-mashup with JSON.

🔥 Hot tip: Darius Kazemi’s Corpora

If you’re looking for fun data to play around with, a great option is Darius Kazemi’s corpora repository: https://github.com/dariusk/corpora

In it you’ll find a ton of quite manageable (not too massive or too complex) JSON files with data about all kinds of stuff. Animals! Art! Plants! Transportation!

You want data about every “house” in Game of Thrones for some reason??? No problem! The first 1000 prime numbers??? Darius has you covered.

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