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Oct 14
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Bike-o-Meter: Global Bicycle Hire Dials

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Our now ‘resident in the British Library Tweet-o-Meter’ has been adapted to display Bike Hire in cities around the world – welcome to the latest out of the CASA, University College London : Bike-O-Meter. On a single screen, you can view via Google-powered gauges, how busy (in percent of use) the bike share schemes around the world are right now.

Most dials will move every two minutes, a few (the Velib ones) update every 10 or 20 minutes.

At the time of writing, the bike share schemes of the Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Girona and Valencia, are the ones being most actively used. Spanish rush-hours at lunchtimes seem generally to be as big as the morning/evening ones! Biking home for the siesta?


Central to this visualiation is Oliver G O’Brien of CASA, his map/visualisation of the London Boris Bikes is now available for fifteen more cities. The complete list:

There is a second mode in Bike-o-Meter, accessed here, detailing how unbalanced the schemes are – high values indicate that a lot of the bikes are concentrated in one part of the city, and there’s a lot of empty docking stations in another part. The metric is the percentage of bikes that would need to be moved to balance out the docking stations across the city.

Thanks go to Ollie for the original Boris Bikes maps along with Steve Gray, also of CASA and Tweet-o-Meter/SurveyMapper fame for putting it together.

We will have more news on the Tweet-o-Meter as part of the Growing Knowledge Exhibition at the British Library soon….

Oct 07
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Tweet-o-Meter: Now with 16 Cities

By Cities Tweets, geotweets, Tweet-o-Meter, twitter maps

We have added four more cities to ‘Tweet-o-Meter’: Hong Kong, New Delhi, Shanghai and San Paulo. Is it true that, New York is the city that never sleeps? Do Londoners send more Tweets than New Yorkians’? Is Oslo a bigger Tweeter than Munich? Is Tokyo into Tweets as much as Barcelona?


The Tweet-o-Meter measures the amount of tweets (measured in Tweets per Minute or TPM) received from various locations around the world. The gauges are updated every second giving you a live view of the TPM’s in each location.

The system is designed to mine data for later analysis relating to furthering our understanding of social and temporal dynamics for e-Social Science within the Twitter demographic, its output allows new ‘tweetography’ maps of cities to be created.

See the New City Landscape post over at UrbanTick for full details and the music video behind the original choice of cities or head direct to the Tweet-o-Meter Page.

The big news is that from October 13th you will be able to view our analog version of the Tweet-o-Meter at a notable literary venue in London, more details on that soon.

Oct 05
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London Interior Timelapse Sequences

By City Timelapses, internal timelapse, sigma 8mm

Grzegorz Rogala has used a  Sigma 8mm fisheye and a Nikon D90 DSLR to capture some stunning timelapse sequences around London, notably within internal spaces rather than the normal external scenes:


London Time-Lapse Video from Grzegorz Rogala on Vimeo.
Interior timelapse sequences are always tricky, mainly as tripod use is often prohibited and specific licenses for photography are required. As such, setting up with a DLSR with a fisheye lens can often attract attention. We really like this, especially the Natural History Museum sequence, it also turns out that Grzegorz works down our local pub, but that’s by the by….

Oct 04
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Hermitage Plaza: Architectural Visualisation by Uniform

By Architectual Visualisation, Foster and Partners, Heritage Plaze

Uniform recently completed a short film for Foster + Partners, for their Hermitage Plaza scheme in La Defence, Paris. The film premiered to an audience including Vladimir Putin amongst others at the Russian National Exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris.

The film was integral to the launch of the development’s campaign for planning permission and also building an international profile. When complete in 2016, the two towers will be the tallest mixed-use towers in Western Europe, at a staggering 323m!

Hermitage’s CEO Emin Iskenderov had strong ideas for the film so Uniform worked closely with him to create a series of sequences that not only told the story of the scale and the architecture but also attempted to show the Paris lifestyle that the towers will bring to an otherwise quite area of the city’s business district.

Within an ambitious timescale, Uniform delivered two aerial film shoots over Paris, a large scale Green Screen shoot, they even managed to squeeze in a spaceship and we love it…

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