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Britain From Above

max — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 07:00:20 +0000

An epic journey revealing the secrets, patterns and hidden rhythms of our lives from a striking new perspective.

Join host Andrew Marr as he discovers how each and every one of us is interconnecting making Britain what it is today.

Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird’s eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways.

Cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before.

On a typical day, over 400 ships pass through the straits off Dover. This visualisation shows 24 hours worth of shipping recorded as it passes through the Channel.

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geoGreeting - Messages Created From Aerial Building Views

max — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:15:34 +0000

Your greeted with the cryptic message, “The surface of the earth holds a message for you. You just need to look a little closer.” Very Matrix like, but true with this very clever visualization. As the Jesse Vig the developer stated, “While working on a different Google Maps project, I noticed that a number of buildings looked like letters of the alphabet when viewed from above. This is the point where I should have just said ‘hmmm, good observation’ and gone on with my life. But I didn’t and that’s why this website is here.”

This reminds me of the flickr groups that take photos of things that look like letters in order to construct words. However, this is a wonderful interactive version of that idea. I found the site well done and easy to use the first time. Great job Jesse!

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Telecommunications Visualization

max — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:41:12 +0000

“New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real time by visualizing volumes of long distance telephone and IP (Internet Protocol) data flowing between New York and cities around the world. In an information age, telecommunications such as the Internet and the telephone bind people across space by eviscerating the constraints of distance. To reveal the relationships that New Yorkers have with the rest of the world, New York Talk Exchange asks: How does the city of New York connect to other cities? With which cities does New York have the strongest ties and how do these relationships shift with time? How does the rest of the world reach into the neighborhoods of New York?”

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Mapjack - Street View Mapping Visualization

max — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:12:42 +0000

“Mapjack.com showcases a new level of mapping technology. What others have done with NASA budgets and Star Wars-like equipment, we’ve done on a shoestring budget, along with a few trips to Radio Shack. Specifically, we developed an array of proprietary electronics, hardware and software tools that enable us to capture an entire city’s streets with relative ease and excellent image quality. We have a complete low-cost scalable system encompassing the entire work-flow process needed for Immersive Street-Side Imagery, from picture gathering to post-processing to assembling on a Website.”

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MIT Reality Mining Visualization

max — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:55:17 +0000

“Reality Mining defines the collection of machine-sensed environmental data pertaining to human social behavior. This new paradigm of data mining makes possible the modeling of conversation context, proximity sensing, and temporospatial location throughout large communities of individuals. Mobile phones (and similarly innocuous devices) are used for data collection, opening social network analysis to new methods of empirical stochastic modeling.”

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Macrosense - Real-Time Location Data

max — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:22:01 +0000

“Macrosense is the world’s first platform capable of collecting and analyzing massive amounts of anonymous, aggregate location data in real-time. At the heart of Macrosense are powerful machine learning algorithms that process time-stamped location data and metadata streams from heterogeneous sources - GPS, WiFi positioning, cell tower triangulation, RFID and other sensors - and empower companies and investors to better understand and predict human behavior on a macro scale.”

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Visit the Sense Network Website

Amazon Bookstore Visualization

max — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 03:23:40 +0000

Have you ever wanted to browse the bookstore shelves online? Zoomii is a visualization where you can do just that. To quote the founder, “Why Zoomii? Because I love bookstores. Spending afternoons wandering the shelves. Happening across great books I didn’t even know existed. But it’s an experience I never found online. Online bookstores are wonderful. They’ve got amazing prices, huge selections, and they’re open all the time. If you know exactly what you want, they’re perfect. But somehow I kept coming back to the bookstore just to browse. Zoomii is my attempt to bring online as much of the real bookstore experience as possible.” The application was created by Chris Thiessen. NIce job!

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Visit the Zoomii Books Website

The Sheep Market

max — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:40:15 +0000

While this isn’t a new project it is one worth looking at. “The sheep market is a collection of 10,000 sheep created by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. Each worker was paid $.02 (US) to draw a sheep facing left.” You can also purchase the sheep through the site or email them to a friend. I’m not sure if any were actually sold but the idea of art and commerce is always a nice idea. The project was created by Aeron Koblin in 2006 with flash.

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White Spectrum - Comments Visualization

max — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:38:12 +0000

The BBC has created a unique way to visualize comments on central question. In this case the question was, (Are white working class people ingored in Britain?). As they state, “spectrum is a different way of presenting a BBC News Have Your Say debate. It allows you to investigate the dabate around BBC 2’s White Season by associating different comments by emotion, location and similarity”. They state in the FAQ that the data is not an opinion poll and is not statistically valid, however, it is a visual way to get an impression of the debate. I enjoyed playing with the filters and clicking on the comments. The key was easy to understand and always there when you need it. The only thing I wish the visualization had was a way to tell which comments I had already clicked on while using any filter. Overall, very well done and engaging.

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Visit the BBC White Spectrum Website

Travel Time Tube Map

max — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:36:32 +0000

“Click on or select from the dropdown a station to see the London Underground map reorganise around the times of travel from that station. Shortest paths are used to place the other stations - radius is proportional to time to travel, and angle should be correct for as-the-crow-flies direction on a map. The concentric circles are at 10 minute intervals. Press ‘g’ to get back to the geographical tube map.” This project was created by Tom Carden with the Processing Visualization Language.

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