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M2 Scenic Drive

Thursday, 15.11.12, 10am Individual Assignment 

Data: Find, analyze and compare the characteristics of at least two different urban networks. Examine their elements and their relations. The networks can be trees, cycles and nets, public, neuronal, private, physical, virtual, social, spatial, hidden…

Visualize the network so as to convey a maximum amount of information. Develop an algorithm to generate a family of related networks and simulate its growth and adaption.

Work in Processing.

Monday 25.11.12 3pm Presentation of the results

 

References

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

http://dataviz.tumblr.com/

http://visualization.geblogs.com/

http://www.freebase.com/ : database of freely available sets of data to be visualized

http://infosthetics.com/

http://www.handsomeatlas.com/

 

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Wright, W., Dr. Wright’s Urban Planning Guide 1989: Nintendo.

Module 2:  Atlas of Networks

This week the class explored visualising, generating and simulating different kind of networks, working in Processing. See below for a preview of the presentations.

Achilleas Xydis: Twitter Network
A “tool” to search, compare, follow, track, spy, interact with people and their tweets from all over the word.

Maria Smigielska: Movie User Network
This map aims to represent relationships between movies and users who rated them, according to their age, occupation and gender, as well as genre, rating and relase date of the movie. Data set consisting of 100,000 ratings from 1000 users on 1700 movies is available here: http://www.grouplens.org/node/73

Evi Xexaki: Flight Network
Flight network visualizes the air connections between cities around the globe. Departures and arrivals are displayed with arcs of a different color, with the thickness of each arc dependent on the number of the weekly routes between two cities.

Yuko Ishizu: Swissgrid
This visualisation of the Swissgrid assumes ownership of the 6,700 kilometre-long Swiss transmission system no later than 1 January 2013, as envisaged by the Electricity Supply Act (StromVG), which entered into force on 1 January 2008. The diagram shows the location of transmission station and ownership of the rote of this system.

Mark Baldin: Australian inter-state migration
This network tracks inter-state migration in Australian between 2001 and 2006. Each state population is represented as a sphere located at the state capital city. Migration paths between all states are indicated as grey dotted arcs, with actual migration simulated by smaller spheres (representing the movement of 100 inhabitants) following the same flight trajectory. State populations are updated progressively as migrants leave and enter the states. The data is derived from Australian census statistics.

Joel Letkemann: Toronto Bicycle Network
This program visualizes the bicycle traffic into and out of Toronto’s downtown core, using data from Toronto’s Open Data platform. The program then uses this data to project the traffic through the downtown network, using such algorithms as ‘degree’ and ‘betweenness’ centrality.

David Schildberger: Spatial organization
This tool simulates a series of spatial arrangements due to different graph relationships.

Tihomir Janjusevic: Connectivity Map
The Connectivity Map calculates the connectivity of terms inside the given textual input. The program attempts to establish an equilibrium between the elements of the map.

Akihiko Tanigaito: Stik Graffiti
Maps the location of graffiti artist Stik in London.

Nicolas Miranda: Fly Away
Every year thousands of migratory birds make their journey through the world. Multiple migration patterns are drawn based on the seasonal movement of a group of 193 birds. Six different bird species are represented and visualised according to a time variable. Brighter areas on the patterns describe flight routes, while darker ones show places of longer stay.


Jessica In: A Flickr Atlas
25 categories; 25,000 images; 92,902 image-category links; 16,777,216 user generated meta tags; 20,540,808 tag matches. A Flickr Atlas visualises data collected by LIACS Medialab and graphs the images according to the dataset’s explicit categories. This Atlas also graphs the images according to user generated meta tags, providing a comparison to the dataset’s (generally) more defined categories. Data set: http://press.liacs.nl/mirflickr/

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