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Earthquake In Japan - In Need For Time
The devastating earthquake that hit Japan on 2011-03-11 was with around 8.9 magnitude the biggest in the recent history. Even though Japan is probably the best prepared country on the world this is a dramatic shock for the nation and the whole...
Mapping Distance on Time - Paris Crunch
As we all know from experience, maps generally focus on the physical quality of the space. They follow the box like idea of pace a a container with objects and chart these features one after the other in metric separations. Creating a mesh of...
Visualising urban Wi-Fi
There are a lot of hidden treasures to be found in the city. Being this some historic relicts, a great view across to a place all of a sudden becoming a landmark or a lovely coffee place. One can also find inspiration, patience or pleasure in many...
Think BIG - Copenhagen
Copenhagen is growing fast and with its 539,542 citizens and about 1.2 million in the metro area its a rather busy place. One of the very famous examples in the Copenhagen planning history is the Finger Plan of 1947. Quite interesting how the formal...
Twitter Data In Cities - Seeking Spatial Patterns
I will be contributing to the CASA seminar tonight, given by Robin Morphet, Steven Gray and myself. It will be an update on the NCL - New City Landscape data collected from twitter. The collection of monitored urban areas around the world has now...
Reimagining Urban Living
Not only since the dawn of the financial crisis are the high street and office spaces under pressure. Flexible working schemes and online shopping also pull revenue out of these traditional markets. As a result, especially with shops, the small and...
Visualising Yourself
The Feltron Annual Reports have become something like an institution. On one hand for the graphics they celebrate but on the other hand also for the content or topic each report focuses on. In the current design climate of hyped data visualisation...
Twitter Usage in America - The Demographics
More and more studies are starting to reveal the anatomy of twitter usage. So far it was more guess work as to who is actually using the social-network-microblogging-news-share-shout platform. Earlier the Twitter Fact sheet gave some information on...
Conducting the public transport network
How does the public transport network sound? What noises could you derive from the different lines and tracks?Probably commuters will have a very individual and specific sound scape in mind, thinking about the journey on the public transport network...
Egypt's Internet Blockage - Tweets
The news that Egypt has gone of the internet last Thursday night, stunned the internet community. The news swooshed around quickly and questions were asked. How is this possible, is there a switch?Over the past years we have learned to appreciate...
Chromaroma - Public Transport Gaming
What could brighten up the daily gray commutes back and forth between nowhere and somewhere? Well I guess a game coud actually, but card games are not a big hit during rush hours and playing on the iphone or DS is about as lonely as it gets. Lets...
Twitter Art Network - the Big Players
Twitter as an information service has developed rapidly since 2009. Most institutions have by now adopted a twitter account to distribute news and stay in touch with their audience. Especially in the art world, museums and galleries started using...
