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The World's Eyes — Process Sketches (2008)
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Using geotagged flickr photos, Fabien Girardin and I mapped tourist dynamics in
coastal Spain. He worked on the data
mining aspects of the project, while I
made visualizations of this data.
This set's images are design process
sketches from the project. Flickr was an
invaluable resource for sharing
progress, as Fabien was in Europe and I
was in NYC & Cambridge during our
collaboration. These sketches follow a
messy, organic trajectory delineated by
mistakes and occasional success.
Modest Maps and Processing were my main tools in this work. I
devoted the bulk of the project to the
development of a software tool for
exploring and studying patterns of
density and flow on a zoomable
slippymap. In the end, we created a
"sexy" 3D motion graphic
(suitable for exhibition) that
visualized these themes yet also
communicated the images inherent to this
data, in the spirit of Kevin Lynch.
The end visualization is on display at
the Design Museum in Barcelona, as part
of the Tourism: Spaces of Fiction
exhibition.
More here and here.
99 photos, 7 videos | 781 views
items are from between 24 Oct 2008 & 27 Nov 2008.