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Data VisualizationTutorials | Knight Digital Media Center
KDMC produces a wealth of digital media tutorials to support our training sessions and classes. While the focus of some tutorials is on technology and journalism, most are general enough to be of use to anyone. Updated Aug. 23, 2011 in Web Development , Data Visualization Data visualization is the process of transforming dry, difficult to comprehend collections of data and transforming them into attractive graphics, illustrations, and videos that can be comprehended quickly by readers. This tutorial provides an introduction to a data visualization technique that can be used by non-programmers, using Google Spreadsheets and Charts. Updated March 11, 2012 in Data Visualization
Project Stimmungsgasometer (say what?) is a giant smiley face that changes based on the mood of Berlin citizens. When they are collectively "happy" the light is a smile, and when they are not, it is a sad face. Input comes from facial recognition software that takes in video from a strategically placed camera. The software estimates whether passers by are happy or not, and then installation changes accordingly.
Smiley installation shows the mood of a city
PHILADELPHIA — What can technologies do for us to help us understand what’s going on in the city? University of Pennsylvania urban planning professor Amy Hillier took to the stage here at the second annual TEDxPhilly conference on Tuesday to demonstrate how technology could one day help us look beyond statistics to visualize the very experience of a city. “Could we map emotion?
With mobile tech, mapping a city’s emotions, memories | SmartPlanet
Sensity V & A by Stanza. (www.stanza.co.uk). Sensing the city and the environment to make art. The results are the visualisation and sonification of real time spaces.
Using custom made sensors in the V & A Porter gallery and around the city. 20 custom environmental sensors units measure, light, noise, sound, humidity, and temperature....this data is turned into a online real time visualisation of the space. Local version . Sensity V & A by Stanza. ( www.stanza.co.uk ). Sensing the city and the environment to make art. The results are the visualisation and sonification of real time spaces.
Wikinomics – Charting emotions
One of the emerging themes from our research is the notion of the “highly-instrumented” enterprise environment. Data is everywhere – new types of data that we didn’t previously have access to. You can think of this as a virtual layer of information that adds a new level of understanding (and complexity) to the physical world.
Emotional Cartography: Implications of Visualizing Intimate Biometric Data - information aesthetics
The (44MB freely downloadable) book Emotional Cartography - Technologies of the Self [emotionalcartography.net] is a collection of essays from artists, designers, psycho-geographers, cultural researchers, futurologists and neuroscientists, brought together by Christian Nold , to explore the political, social and cultural implications of visualizing intimate biometric data and emotional experiences using technology. The theme of this collection of essays is to investigate the apparent desire for technologies to map emotion, using a variety of different approaches. Probably the best known emotion maps are the ones resulting Bio Mapping project, a community mapping project in which the Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), a simple indicator of the emotional arousal, is recorded in conjunction with one's geographical location.
Whoa. What did I just read? I think most of you know of Freakonomics, but in case you don't, it started as a book in 2005, by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner. The book examines corners of life (like cheating in sumo) through data. It's a good read.
