Research Summary from January

Objective

Research list on new aspects of storytelling and sensemaking in information
mapping for interactive visualisations.

Thoughts of others
“Visualising digital technologies in urban environments, with a view towards smart cities, smart places and urban technology.” – http://www.digitalurban.org/

Thoughts
Activity and real-time based information are quite similar. For prototyping purpose and in order to
generate ideas you can pretend to have kept flowing data.
Thesis from other people

http://moritz.stefaner.eu/write-talk/ma-thesis-visual-tools/

 

 

DataBases

http://datacatalogs.org/

http://datahub.io/dataset/city-london

http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/
List

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/03/08/map-of-the-internet-this-mobile-app-visualizes-the-internet-in-3d/

Shows a map of the internet

http://tw.rpi.edu/web/concept/DataVisualizationConcept
Design is about communicating information

http://urbanmovements.posterous.com/tag/complexsystems

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/06/google-glass-threat-to-our-privacy
How will Google Glasses change our attitude, behaviour?

http://schoolofdata.org/

Want to deliver powerful messages and better understand the world around you using data?

http://opendatahandbook.org/

This handbook introduces you to the legal, social and technical aspects of open data. It can be used by anyone but is especially useful for those working with government data. It discusses thewhy, what and how of open data – why to go open, what open is, and the how to do open.

 

 

http://carohorn.de/anymails

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_database
A real-time database is a processing system designed to handle workloads whose state is constantly changing

 

https://wiki.gephi.org/index.php?title=Datasets
Gephi Data Sets
http://data.london.gov.uk/london-dashboard
How is London performing?

http://www.designismakingsense.de                        

Official blog of Thorsten Stapelkamp who wrote interesting books on
information visualization

http://www.visualcomplexity.com

  • Official Website of Manuel Lima who wrote visualcomplexity. The book is called mapping
    patterns of information. Especially his thesis project about blogviz is interesting.
  • Blog über visuellen Journalismus

http://visualjournalism.com                                    

http://www.pattern-matters.com/

 

Open City Challenge

http://urbanprototyping.org/prototype/challenges/urban-data-challenge-zurich-sf-geneva/

 

David McCandless

http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/davidmccandless

Videos

Moritz Stefaner über ‘Storytelling mit Datenvisualisierung’

 Einführung Daten Designer

 

Till Nagel über offene Daten

Boris Müller und Till Nagel über Datenvisualisierung auf der Republica

http://www.rga.com/about/offerings/data-visualization

Turning data into a story that eventually motivates people to action.

http://www.face-to-facebook.net/index.php

Stealing 1 million Facebook profiles, filtering them with face-recognition software, and then,
posting them on a custom-made dating website, sorted by their facial expressions characteristics.

Books

Visual Complexity

  • Official Website of Manuel Lima who wrote visualcomplexity. The book is called mapping patterns of information.

Especially his thesis project about blogviz is interesting.

Generative Design

  • Official Website of Manuel Lima who wrote visualcomplexity. The book is called mapping patterns of information.

Especially his thesis project about blogviz is interesting.

Visual Storytelling

  • Official Website of Manuel Lima who wrote visualcomplexity. The book is called mapping patterns of information.

Especially his thesis project about blogviz is interesting.

Visual Storytelling

  • Official Website of Manuel Lima who wrote visualcomplexity. The book is called mapping patterns of information.

Especially his thesis project about blogviz is interesting

Thoughts and Ideas

Distortion as a concept

 

Conferences

 

http://datavisualization.ch/events/13-conferences-to-attend-in-2013/