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Searchscapes

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Searchscapes, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Each person constructs his/her image of the city. This image is made out of facts, memories, experiences, stories, news – mostly invisible data, and not only of architecture, buildings and streets.
“SEARCHSCAPES: MANHATTAN” is an attempt to create a tridimensional map of Manhattan, using existing data from the web.
The objective is to compare the city’s “physical spaces” and “information spaces” (search results). This is an attempt to materialize information: to give it dimension and physicality.

“SEARCHSCAPES: MANHATTAN” was developed as a thesis project at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.

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SENSEable City Laboratory

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Fig 5, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed – alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative between the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning and the MIT Media Lab.

The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed – alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEa

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Durex Map

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007


Durex, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

 

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Droog

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Droog, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

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All mapped out

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Charles Booth’s 1889 Descriptive Map of London Poverty, originally uploaded… more

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The World of Music

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

The World of Music, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

We began using the ratings from 150,000 users from Yahoo! Music LAUNCHcast. Users rate music on LAUNCHcast using an intuitive interface. The ratings then influence what music their customized radio station plays.

Afterwards, we used the user ratings to compute the similarity between the artists. Essentially, for each pair of artists, we counted the number of users that rated both artists highly to determine the similarity. This operation gave us the artist-artist similarity graph. In the image below, we show the clustered adjacency matrix of the graph. The blocks you see in the middle of the picture are similar groups of artists. (In fact, this is how we got the color for each artist in the final picture.)

To determine the layout, we used an optimization algorithm based on semi-definite programming to compute a layout of the graph on a sphere. The layout algorithm tries to find good ways to split the data and naturally separates different groups of music.

Posted in Infovis, Representation
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Collaborative Storytelling Experiment

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

The Cambrian Game, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Unblokt.
This is a sort of experimental interactive creativity, in real time. You can write a sentence trying to connetc the previous sentence whit the next one, suggested by the software. Six books are already completed, these are the titles: Volume 1, Volume 2, George w. bush speech, Dear John, Letter from camp, College Woes.
Now are coming 11 stories: general (6.1%), adventure (3.5%), historical (2.6%), horror (2.8%), sci-fi (2.4%), fantasy (2.9%), mystery (7.6%), crime (3.1%), humo(u)r (4.3%), romance (2.9%), erotic (3.1%)

The Cambrian Game.
The Cambrian Game is the game in which players can submit their own leaf to the tree in the virtual space. You can link a new leaf to any leaf which you are inspired by.

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Experimental Social Inteface

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Locus, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

Locus is an instant messanger, social experiment, and art piece that is built on the premise that you are how you act.
By examining how you and your friends talk with each other, Locus automatically tries to find likenesses between your friends. You can then see these potential relations mapped out for you! You can watch your social web grow as you speak.
(An explanation Video)

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State of Information Vol.III

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

buzz tracker, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

BuzzTracker in another good example of Infovis tools for news visualization. By using Google News data it provides a map of the most gossipped place in the world
(Give a look)
and see also:
*NewsMap
*In The News
*Montage a Google

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Choose a name!

Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Baby name wizard, originally uploaded by densitydesign.

“The Baby Name wizard is the first expert guide to every aspect of baby name style. Created by a name-hunting mom, the book uses ground-breaking research and computer models to pinpoint each name’s image and suggest other promising ideas. From popularity to ethnic origins, religious history to pop culture, the Wizard gives you the straight scoop… and helps you find the perfect name for your family’s unique taste.“
(Give a look)
A good example of traditional use of Information Graphic tools and Information Visualization methods [ General Overview, Dynamic Query, Details on Demand ].

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