World Population Density 1970-2000
This animation of estimated global population density between 1970-2000 uses data produced by NASA’s SEDAC. For more information see here.
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Half a Million Journeys on the London Underground
This animation from Will Gallia shows over 500,000 indi […]
Continue reading »The Evolution of London’s Streets
This animation shows how the roads in the London area f […]
Continue reading »Cinematic Mapping
I recently posted a great visualisation showing 24 hour […]
Continue reading »Animating French High Speed Rail
The video above by the MIT Senseable City lab is one of […]
Continue reading »Animating Auckland’s Public Transport
This video, produced by Chris McDowall, shows the jour […]
Continue reading »Animating Global Innovation Diffusion- Public Transport
We know that knowledge networks and intensive competition within cities boosts innovation. There are also further scales to this dynamic. The networks and competition between cities at regional and global scales promotes the adoption of new ideas- as cities buy, borrow and adapt ideas from their competitors. It’s this latter global dynamic that we’re exploring … Continue reading →
Mapping Spanish Spending
Access to credit/ debit card data is, quite rightly, he […]
Continue reading »Rendevous – History of the Universe
The Murf by the band Rendevous is the electronic soundtrack to the universe. Not on its own but together with the stunning illustration by Scott Benson. Together it makes a music video of the very inspiring sort. It is inspiring technically and of cour…
Continue reading »London aNCL
London was the first city we collected Twitter data for when we started to create the New City Landscape (NCL) project, monitoring location based Twitter activity in urban areas. This was back in May 2010 and since we have collected data for a lot more…
Continue reading »Barcelona New City Landscape
Barcelona is in terms of twitter activity one of the cities that has a strong central core of high activity. Very similar to for example the London NCL or the Paris NCL maps. The highest point is just over the Placa de Catalonia with a steep slope down…
Continue reading »San Francisco is Busy – aNCL Series
San Francisco is busy tweeting and this new animation of location based tweets in the Bay Area show actually how busy it is. Geo located tweets are shown as yellow circles that fade away by time, and re-tweets are shown as small yellow points moving on…
Continue reading »Stop Motion on the Road
A really nice clip using stop motion to capture the action on the pavement outside the house. The skaters are loose and hit the card bord ramps. It is in the same manner as the earlier stop motion ‘Sorry I’m Late’ also with a rather urban interpretatio…
Continue reading »Twitter Wave in Honolulu
The tsunami wave, generated by the 9.0 magnitude earthquake of the East coast of Japan on the 11 March 2011, spread through out the pacific threatening many coastal sections in different countries. The water fore strongest hit the Japanese coast shortl…
Continue reading »Water Cycle – What Comes Around Goes Around
Talking cycles and repetition, this is probably the most prominent example everybody remembers from primary school, the water cycle. The rain comes down over the mountains filters through the stone, a spring, a creek, a river, a stream into the ocean, …
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