Edward Deaver

The NY Times Election data on an AlfaZeta FlipDigit display.

The NY Times Election data on an AlfaZeta FlipDigit display.

Timelapse with sound added back in of the night.

Click Clack… it updated.

A days before the election: At Syracuse’s Open Data Day met someone (not sure they want to be named) that told me The NY Times in years past published their election results via a JSON file that gets queried every couple minutes. I found a link to last years and built a script for my display around it. If that data is published in a similar way this year my script should work for this years election.

Election night: The NY Times’s election site is powered by ~5 json files and those JSON files are one of the few ways to get election data for free. At 6pm when the new data dropped, I changed the data structure to fit it.

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Edward Deaver

Edward Deaver is a creative technologist that enjoys spending his time outside climbing, running, hiking, and biking.

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