As we have mentioned in previous posts there are of course many arguments on the pro’s and con’s of visualising data in such a way, indeed the visualisation is developed to open up the debate as part of the MRes course allowing various visualisation techniques to be compared from the same data set. 


Sometimes however an abstract route to visualising data can quite liberating in a world of visualisation dominated by more traditional and academic output, the screenshot above illustrates Kingston Peak with Soho Mountain dominating the background. The movie below details the landscape as a fly-through:

In future posts we will explore issues of scale as we take the landscape and move it into an online exhibition space.


Update  – see Data Space: Agent Based Models, SketchUp, Visualisation, ArcGIS and Lumion for the exhibition space developments…

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Processed by Fabian Neuhaus, a PhD student here at CASA, University College London, the new city twitter topography creates a unique new media landscape. The data is mined via our ‘Tweet-O-Meter’ system (soon to be seen in physical form in the British Library) which collects all geo-located tweets within a 30km radius of world cities.

You can view a full screen Google Maps style version of San Francisco over at Urban Tick as well as the previous maps of London, New York, Munich, Paris and Moscow.

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Processed by Fabian Neuhaus, a PhD student here at CASA, University College London, the new city twitter topography creates a unique new media landscape. The data is mined via our ‘Tweet-O-Meter’ system (soon to be seen in physical form in the British Library) which collects all geo-located tweets within a 30km radius of world cities.

You can view a full screen Google Maps style version of San Francisco over at Urban Tick as well as the previous maps of London, New York, Munich, Paris and Moscow.

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In the piece, nodes are connected by narrative threads, based on themes emerging from the overlaid information. These pathways create dense meta-networks of meaning, blanketing the terrain and connecting disparate areas of the city:

Invisible Cities maps information from one realm—online social networks—to another: an immersive, three dimensional space. In doing so, the piece creates a parallel experience to the physical urban environment. The interplay between the aggregate and the real-time recreates the kind of dynamics present within the physical world, where the city is both a vessel for and a product of human activity. It is ultimately a parallel city of intersections, discovery, and memory, and a medium for experiencing the physical environment anew.

Our movie below of London’s Tweets displays a similar ‘hidden city’:

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A few weeks ago we presented our latest work ‘The Geography of Everything’ at the yearly conference organised by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. With the work featured in New Scientist and based around a new way of tagging every object in the world via the talesofthings.com site we hoped for a good reception. Indeed the reception was good with an excellent write up in the Guardian and a series of suitably scientific questions fielded and answered. What we were not quite prepared for was the archive of the tweet feed with various audience members ‘tweeting’ through the event.

Carry on reading over at Urban Nature…

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A few weeks ago we presented our latest work ‘The Geography of Everything’ at the yearly conference organised by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. With the work featured in New Scientist and based around a new way of tagging every object in the world via the talesofthings.com site we hoped for a good reception. Indeed the reception was good with an excellent write up in the Guardian and a series of suitably scientific questions fielded and answered. What we were not quite prepared for was the archive of the tweet feed with various audience members ‘tweeting’ through the event.

Carry on reading over at Urban Nature…

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Once tagged each object basically gets its own webpage allowing comments to be placed, new media added such as YouTube clips, Audioboo, Vimeo etc and new tales tagged to the codes.

An interesting take on this is that once these tags are placed in the wild and scanned with the free iPhone app they become read/writable and therefore location aware. As such any object you tag with the site can ‘Tweet’ each time it is scanned. If you tag a landmark for example, each time that tag is read you can get a tweet that says ‘Hey, I’ve just been scanned’. Once scanned new tales or comments can be added to that tag, creating a social network of ‘things’ and ‘locations’.

We are working on ways to make the objects more location aware and aware of near by objects, it could be interesting over the next few months to see how this develops. You can see all the things added to far on the ‘world of things map’:

You can start tagging anything and everything via talesofthings.com

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The movie clip uses Google Earth to visualise the data:

Music – Becoming Visible by Xanthe on MP3 Unsigned.

Note the ‘tweets’ at Heathrow and how you can almost pick out London’s shape via the twitter cloud alone. The original movie can be found here.

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The movie clip uses Google Earth to visualise the data:

Music – Becoming Visible by Xanthe on MP3 Unsigned.

Note the ‘tweets’ at Heathrow and how you can almost pick out London’s shape via the twitter cloud alone. The original movie can be found here.

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