Burning Man 2014 Word Cloud Generation

package.json

{
  "private": "true",
  "name": "burnerwords",
  "version": "v0.0.1",
  "dependencies": {
    "underscore": ">=1.4.4",
    "optimist": "~0.3.5",
    "read-json" : "~0.0.0",
    "word-freq" : "~0.0.8"
  }
}

script.js

global._ = require('underscore');
var readJSON = require('read-json');
var request = require('request');
var WordFreq = require('word-freq');


// Burning Man API : http://playaevents.burningman.com/api/0.2/2014/event/

// Use the API (via an HTTP request) or a local file (via the ReadJSON module). 
// readJSON('./events.json', function(error, manifest){
request('http://playaevents.burningman.com/api/0.2/2014/event/', function (error, response, body) {

	// parse the response into JSON
	var manifest = JSON.parse(body);
	
	// build a gigantic string that is the concatenation of all event descriptions.
	var bigstring = "";
	_.each(manifest, function(thing) {
		// console.log(thing);
		bigstring += " "+thing.description.toLowerCase();
	});

	// here we can use the WordFreq module to generate the frequency count.  However, I found that copying the bigstring and pasting it into an online word cloud generator was easier.

	//var freq = WordFreq.freq(bigstring);
	console.log(bigstring);

	// Copy the console output (bigstring) into http://www.wordle.net/create to finish it off!!
});