Data Visualization
Data Visualisation and tools
In a previous Article I pictured Data Presentations of Visual Complexitiy It intends to be a resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. And to present complex network structurs in a visual language system. Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive.
In the following article I want to show you interactive tools working for example with music like this one narratives2.0 and tools for creating your own visualizations. Most Data Graphics are unfortunately not for free but they allow us an insight in visual and structural thinking an inspiring graphic work. Thats why I am posting these information graphics, there are beautiful though they have so many details to capture. Wrapping your brain around data online can be challenging, especially when dealing with huge volumes of information. The best are summarized here.
Kunal Anand – looks del.icio.us
Visual Complexity
We are flooding more and more our consciousness with information and short lasting knowlegde. It’s hard to figure out what is really important for ourselves and what we should keep. We try to organize and structure our life to clear our mind, we are multi plane and try do everything simultaneously. So we see life needs training, but the good thing is human nature gave us the talent of seeing beauty and creating it and even the chaos of things become beautiful if some smart guys put them in aesthetic order.
Like http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/ and find your favorite to visualise your life pattern.
Impress – a flexible touchpad by Silke Hilsing
Silke Hilsing invented an impressive technic. A flexible touchpad allows the user to create 3-Dimensional spaces to fill up with sound-bowles, easy switch between news and some more. With an up-projektion the result get projected on the top of the soft touchpad.
The impress has 4 kinds of applications.
Application 1: You can put objects in motion and make them sound differently by deforming the surface. Draw a new object with different radius and pitch depending on the intensity of pressure.
Application 2 + 3: Modelling a 3D-object by lower or higher intensity of pressure at any desired position. After Modeling, save the result and compare it with other results in a 3D gallery. Fly and zoom through the gallery by putting more or less pressure onto the display.
Application 4: Squeeze out latest news (RSS-Feeds of different news agencies).
It is an very interessting technic. I think the video explains it very well.
The Pendulum for the Expo 2010 in Shanghai – by Milla&Partner
2 weeks ago my university was invited to see the pre-presentation of the energysphere. It is a sphere which is going to be installed at the german-pavillon fpr the expo 2010 in shanghai. The Event-Agency Milla&Partner created this amazing element. With hundred of thousands of LED´s it creates different visuals on its surface. In Shanghai it will interact with the participants. For example if the people are screaming – the sphere will be following the voices. It was very impressive to see this. Its still having some problems with the interaction, but i am sure it will be impressive at shanghai.
It weighs 1200kg and has a diameter of 3m.
Check the video below.
Multi-Touch Interface by Christian Bannister
Our world becomes more and more artificial. Navigate websites via voice or camera, driving on futuristic vehicle instead of walking, saving tones of data on to tiny flashcards or produce music with the most spacey controller ever, like christian bannister with his multi-touch interface!
Some ideas I’ve seen in the past where going in the same direction but for me this is definitely the closest one. This is the first prototype by christian. The musician, designer and developer located in Portland, Oregon doing constantly updates – pursue that on subcycle.org.
Touch Loop Navigator from christian bannister on Vimeo.
Entire Cities Recreated Using Thousands of Flickr Photos
An amazing project by the University of Washington’s graphics and imaging laboratory (GRAIL). I imagine that in future this could be combined with augmented reality apps for Iphone or other mobile devices to visualize cities and places through the perspective of visitors / web users.
This is what the “thenextweb.com” writes about it:
“A group of researchers with University of Washington’s graphics and imaging laboratory (GRAIL) wanted to see if they could build a piece of software that would search the web for images of a particular place and recreate that place in 3D in under a day.They succeeded, and the team, lead by Sameer Agarwal, created a simulation of Rome using 150,000 images harvested from photo-sharing website Flickr, and build a virtual model within a day. The team also tested the software on the Croatian city of Dubrovnic and were able to recreate the entire old city, including all the buildings and streets, within 22 hours. The principle isn’t new – the team previously developed tools which can create 3D models from a collection of photos, which subsequently evolved into Microsoft’s Photosynth. But while that technology was good, “Using the existing system it would have taken years to recreate a whole city,” Agarwal told NewScientist.”
Click here for static views of the reconstruction.
via thenextweb.com
GoodMorning: Visualizing Wake Up Tweets around the World
A interesting Project by Jer Thorp. Twitter as a worldwide phenomenon..kind of impressive. Are you on Twitter yet?
“GoodMorning [blprnt.com] is a Twitter visualization tool that shows about 11,000 “good morning” tweets over a 24 hour period, between August 20th and 21st. And this is just a simple sample of Twitter activity around the globe. All tweets are color-coded: green blocks are early tweets, orange ones are around 9am, and red tweets are later in the morning. Black blocks are ‘out of time’ tweets which said “good morning” (or a non-english equivalent) at a strange time in the day.”
GoodMorning! – Full Render #1 from blprnt on Vimeo.
GoodMorning! Full Render #2 from blprnt on Vimeo.
via infosthetics.com
Manuel Lima about Data Visualization | digup.tv
This Video is already 2 Month old but nevertheless really interesting. Manuel is a interaction designer, information architect and design researcher and talks about art and data visualization. Check this out, as it is something that will be changing of lot of ways we can see complex data amounts and the outcome can be very artful. Remember the Flight Patterns by Aaron Koblin?! Check out visualcomplexity.com for lots of work about this topic.
Manuel Lima | Visual Complexity from digup.tv on Vimeo.
Flight patterns by Aaron Koblin
Artist Aaron Koblin used FAA flight tracking data to create this visualization of U.S air traffic over twenty four hours.
This work was originally developed as a series of experiments for the project “Celestial Mechanics” by colleagues Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment.
Check out his Website for a o Google Maps version of the visualization and more interesting Artwork.
The Air Traffic by Model
Atlanta
“Air Traffic Control” from Baltic Telegraph Company on Vimeo.
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