Motionographer had 2 interesting articles pointing to interesting ways to visualize data.  These link have come in handy while thinking of what sort of way to make an artistic visualization through generative art.  My source of data has been established.  I will use excel data from the United Nations so that it can easily be converted into a useful format.  It appears after some research that Processing is capable of reading data from a file which is separated with tabs.  How convenient that Excel exports tabular data.  The next step is to see what Processing is capable of offering in combination with what I’m capable of learning to produce a great piece within the next two weeks.