The World's Eyes — Process Sketches (2008)

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.
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99 photos, 7 videos | 781 views

items are from between 24 Oct 2008 & 27 Nov 2008.