Tweet City: Building Heights by Number of Tweets Movie (London)
What if London’s buildings grew according to the amount of data they generate? Stephan Hügel (@urschrei) and Flora Roumpani (@en_topia) two of our PhD students from The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, have been working on a system to read in twitter data to CityEngine and link the geo locations to building outlines.
![Twitter Data linked to Building Footprints](http://www.digitalurban.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/mosttwittedbuilding2-1024x448.jpg)
Twitter Data linked to Building Footprints
The video below is the first step in an approach to visualising an urban landscape using the objects that already exist in it; instead of abstract swirling points, bars, and artefacts hovering in the sky, the buildings themselves become the medium by which the data generated in and around them are made visible:
For more info head over to http://en-topia.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/tweetcity-re-populating-london.html and to download source code: http://urschrei.github.io/CityEngine-…