VistorVille is a city based visualisation program for your webstats, each building represents a web page; each bus a search engine; and each animated character a visitor to the site:
Setup is as easy as pasting in a tracking code, we would try it out but the combination of cities and stats is probably a step too far if we want to get any work done this week…
Take a look at http://www.visitorville.com/ for a free trial and more info.
Graphic showing the Oxford Circus redesignThanks to Duncan Smith and gisagents.blogspot.com – another blog from CASA worth noting, see their post on Interesting Articles.
Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1790 to present. Their online tools are aimed to help you visually analyse and understand the demography of the United States through the use of interactive maps and data reports. The free collection on the website features historical census data maps and reports. This includes a limited subset of socio-economic and demographic data on the United States from 1790 to 2007. Subscribers have access to over 12,000 maps between 1790 and 2007, and over 50,000 variables of data in reports.
Communicating and portraying geographical data is not an easy task, as to be honest it can all come across as a bit dull. That said, the video below provides and insight into Social Explorer:
The image above by Visibuild, a host and solutions provider for the AEC industries, is running in realXtend, currently in early phase alpha, it is a platform to watch. The main attraction for us here at digital urban of realXtend is the ability to import models via Revit, ArchiCAD, SketchUp, 3DMax etc, something that Second Life still lacks in any quick and easy form.
The technology demo below provides an insight into the possibilities:
With a notable rendering quality, combined with the dynamic shade and shadows, realXtend creates an interesting and comparably low-cost way to experience an architectural design.
If you are at all interested in Virtual Architecture we recommend a trip over to The Arch Network, set up by Jon Brouchoud it focuses on the communication of architecture via Virtual Worlds. We will be taking a closer look at realXtend while our development using Unity is put on hold (our Mac was stolen).
The Unity work will return as soon we get a replacement laptop sorted and our files restored via Time Machine.
See The Arch Network for more details on SketchUp models running in realXtend.