Architect Jorge Ayala is based between London, Beijing and Paris working for Plasma Studio on several projects within China, and currently involved in the World Horticultural Expo design for Xi’an 2011. He continuously showcases an interesting array of… Continue reading →

Commissioned by the Design Museum, Poke developed an animated map charting the history of digital design in London. It maps the growth, death and merging of main design agencies in the city of London from 1994 to 2009.As Poke explains: “The digital des… Continue reading →

Since the terroristic attack on the World Trade Center on september 11th, 2001, and the following invasion by the Allied forces in Afghanistan in order to fight the Taliban regime and Al-Quaida, the Western countries are involved in an ongoing conflict… Continue reading →

Most Americans know that the US government spends an insane amount of their tax dollars on defense, but how do you show just how much they spend compared to all other areas in the country? In order to answer this query the authors created a visualizati… Continue reading →

Xiaoji Chen is a 1st year SMArchS student in Design and Computation at MIT. As part of her work in the SENSEable City’s workshop, Xiaoji developed a series of maps of the city of Paris, where the distance between a spot and the city center is not propo… Continue reading →

I first saw this project on the Show me the Data event in May 2010. Organized by Marcel Worring, Raul Nino Zambrano, and Yuri Engelhardt, this marked the public presentation of nine multidisciplinary data visualization projects developed by Master stud… Continue reading →

These images are part of a large collection of fifty city maps tracing geotagged photos from Flickr and Picasa. Eric Fischer determined the speed at which photographers travelled the various urban landscapes by analyzing their photos’ timestamps and ge… Continue reading →

This work constitutes several visual experiments that map the GPS coordinates and velocity of 1534 vehicles circulating in Lisbon, Portugal, during October 2009. That information is condensed in one single virtual day, grouping the data by second and d… Continue reading →

The goal of this project is to question the top-down categorization and evaluation of music by the music industry and its sales charts by using Twitter as an alternative ranking system.Authors tracked the number of times a song was quoted in Twitter me… Continue reading →

Eric Fischer took publicly available data from the Muni ? San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency ? showing the geographic coordinates of their vehicles to create this map showing average transit speeds over a 24-hour period. Muni is one of Ameri… Continue reading →