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Participatory Urbanism
Interested in the ways in which mobile technology influences social development and the urban landscape, research boutique Urban Atmospheres has built an ongoing project on the belief that cell phones and other ...
Full Spectrum
Appearing as part of the upcoming Synthetic Times exhibit in Beijing, the Wifi Camera creates images based on the electromagnetic signals from wireless networks rather than the spectrum of light visible to ...
Imaging Beijing
John Craig Freeman's Imaging Beijing, part of the 2008 Mixed Realities exhibition at Turbulence.org, uses remote sensing technology and place-based narratives to examine the effects of electronic and cultural ...
A Swarm of Words
Stanford University doctoral student Daniel Steinbock created TagCrowd to provide a simple, usercentric tool for examining word frequencies in websites or downloaded documents. The application turns the information into text ...
Celestial Economic Sphere
The Black Shoals Stock Planetarium uses real-time financial data to create an artificial skyscape. Stars represent listed companies, which flicker each time their stock is traded and move in the artificial universe ...
Wikipedia Walkabout
Two websites give Wikipedia users a more immediate, spatial connection to data. Placeopedia allows visitors to connect articles to locales, creating searchable maps linked to the original texts. To create ...
Rights Software
The Martus software package gives human rights organizations a secure tool for managing information, particularly data related to the identity of victims or witnesses of abuses. The software allows reformers to ...
Quantifying Culture
The Urban Institute's Arts and Culture Indicators in Communities Project created a way of describing an area's cultural infrastructure in quantifiable terms, allowing policymakers to see the effects of artistic development on ...
Science and the “Protected Commons”
Australian non-profit CAMBIA promotes research and technological collaboration in the life sciences as a means of nurturing innovation and making current research more widely available to developing communities. The group's
Networked News
Buzztracker traces the connections between major cities and current events by visualizing news coverage as a series of interconnected circles, allowing users to see the ripple effect of important stories. The ...
Reconstructing Perspective
An experimental program at Antietam National Battlefield used contemporary sketches and photos, as well as modern remote sensing technology and design software, to study elements of the site. According to ...
Graph Gear, an opensource platform for Graph Visualization - now available.
Graph Gear, an open platform for graph visualization (the mathematical kind, not the bar chart kind), is now available. It allows you to create an interactive graph with force directed layout that ...
The State of the Union
Political rhetoric and the ebb and flow of language itself are key concerns in democratic societies. The role of language as a social and political tool has intrigued everyone from ...
Searchscape
Searchscapes: Manhattan presents a conceptual map of the city by layering data over the physical and architectural terrain. Juliana Sato Yamashita, the artist behind the site, ...
Illustrating History
HistoryShots is a print shop that creates high-quality information graphics that provide context to interesting subjects, time periods and events. Most of these are original works of information design - although ...