Mapping London Life
Mapping London Life is the title of the talk I gave at […]
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Agile Ethics for Massified Research and Visualization
The advances in online data mining and the rising popularity of online social networking data is posing challenging questions in regards to ethics and privacy. How can academic research provide a comprehensive framework to secure data management and gu…
Continue reading »Second International Conference Young Urban Researchers – SiCyUrB
Today is the second day of the Second International Conference of Young Urban Researchers in Lisbon at ISCTE-IUL. The conference aims to share recent researches on urban contexts from many different areas of social sciences, to discuss current theoreti…
Continue reading »Mapping Academic Tweets
Another day, another Twitter map- this time showing the global distribution of tweets that link to academic journal articles. I am always a bit skeptical of Twitter data (especially with location information) but as an academic seeking to publish in many of the journals that feature in people’s tweets I was prepared to make an …
Continue reading »Trendsmap Paints Twitter Maps
Twitter data is becoming a new rawmaterial for representing cities. Visualisations are being produced frequently. The latest addition comes from Trendsmap the online platform visualising emerging Twitter trends. The guys have produced visualisations fo…
Continue reading »New City Landscape – Singapore – one Island
Singapore is an city state with about 5’076’700 inhabitant according to the 2010 census. The society is very technology interested and electronics make a lot of their business.Digital elements have a strong presence in everyday life, including online s…
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 »#1yeartogo visualisation
London 2012 is only 1 year away! This is an exciting time for London and the UK in general. The new stadiums are nearly complete and most of the tickets for the events have already been sold. Hopefully if you applied for a ticket you got one! Behind the scenes here at BigDataToolKit and at […]
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 »New City Landscape – Calgary
Calgary was established in 1875 as Fort Brisebois by the North-West Mounted Police, located at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in what is now Calgary, Alberta. Today Calgary is the largest city in Alberta and directs an oil and gas empire, m…
Continue reading »New City Landscape – Calgary
Calgary was established in 1875 as Fort Brisebois by the North-West Mounted Police, located at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in what is now Calgary, Alberta. Today Calgary is the largest city in Alberta and directs an oil and gas empire, m…
Continue reading »New City Landscape – Mapping Urban Twitter Usage
I am at CUPUM presenting a paper on the ongoing New City Landscape location based Twitter message mapping project. The paper gives an overview of a whole range of aspects this project is working with. Rangin from data collection, ethical discussion of …
Continue reading »New City Landscape – Mapping Urban Twitter Usage
I am at CUPUM presenting a paper on the ongoing New City Landscape location based Twitter message mapping project. The paper gives an overview of a whole range of aspects this project is working with. Rangin from data collection, ethical discussion of …
Continue reading »Justin Bieber across the Mountains – Twitter Networks
How does the social network link location as people communicate? It would be very interesting to see how communication pattern link to location and context.There is already quite some good stuff on this topic. Only recently John Reads defended successf…
Continue reading »Justin Bieber across the Mountains – Twitter Networks
How does the social network link location as people communicate? It would be very interesting to see how communication pattern link to location and context.There is already quite some good stuff on this topic. Only recently John Reads defended successf…
Continue reading »A Week on Foursquare and Twitter
The news papers are currently not only fueling the data mining trend, they are pushing it themselves. The New York Times is leading the way with the data viz lab, but also the Guardian with the data blog is very active. Now the Wall Street Journal is p…
Continue reading »A Week on Foursquare and Twitter
The news papers are currently not only fueling the data mining trend, they are pushing it themselves. The New York Times is leading the way with the data viz lab, but also the Guardian with the data blog is very active. Now the Wall Street Journal is p…
Continue reading »New City Landscape – Geneva
Geneva is the Swiss city with the most important international connections. In Geneva a lot of international organisations have a headquarter such as UNO, WHO, UNHCR, ILO, WIPO and the Red Cross. But there are also other institution of international si…
Continue reading »London Twitter Map
We have been working hard here at CASA lately, building tools to collect, analyse and visualise different data sets from all over the web. One piece of software that has proven quite popular over the past few months is our internal Twitter Collector. The collector mines Twitter for tweets inside a geographical radius either with […]
Continue reading »4/10 Why Mediate Art? – Twitter Text Network
Milan based Mousse magazine is running a series with the title ‘Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating’. The editor of the series, Jens Hoffmann explains: “it emerged from a desire to trace the coordinates of contemporary curatorial practice, to take s…
Continue reading »4/10 Why Mediate Art? – Twitter Text Network
The Mousse magazine is running a series with the title ‘Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating’. The editor Jens Hoffmann explains: “it emerged from a desire to trace the coordinates of contemporary curatorial practice, to take stock of a profession tha…
Continue reading »Twitter Ecosystem
Not quite sure which app to use to read and write your tweets? Well it is tricky and there are loads of options out there. Actually it has become a whole Twitter Ecosystem with apps growing into from everywhere, all aiming for the best place under the …
Continue reading »Social Interaction on Time
Getting the tweets out on time, actually at the right time, is very easy since the invention of Timely the on time tweet tool discussed earlier in ‘Social Networking on Time’. Now the tool has been refreshed.
Timely allows to schedule a whole list of …
Continue reading »New City Landscape – Seoul
Seoul is the capital and largest city of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is one of the largest cities in the world. Seoul proper is noted for its population density, which is almost twice as concentrated as New York and…
Continue reading »NCL San Francisco – Update
Following the SFO aNCL, an update to the earlier San Francisco map was needed. The slight redesign of the map islands with changed key and added graphs of temporal elements. The exclusive islandification of the area is enforce with a new frame. This pr…
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 »MTV Music Awards 2010 – Visualisation
THe MTV Music Awards are one of the really big yearly music shows and as such a important date in the calendar. Of course this transfers to the social networking sites, with loads of followers chatting about it online. For last years show Stamen has te…
Continue reading »NCL Bogotá – the Cut
The Columbian capital is quite an active spot with tweeters. In general the twitter platform is very popular in South America and Bogota is no exemption. However it is in terms of overall numbers behind fanatic tweeters such as Sao Paulo and Rio, but i…
Continue reading »Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation – Conference
The Institute for Science, Innovation and Society (InSIS) is organising a two-day conference ‘Visualisation in the Age of Computerisation’ on 25-26 March 2011 at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. “The theme of the conference is the permeatio…
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 »A City of Tweets
This is another great map animation from our friends in CASA. It is a year old now (almost to the day) but it remains one of the most engaging Twitter…
Continue reading »Twitter Data – Seeking Spatial Pattern
I will be contributing to the CASA seminar tonight, given by Robin Morphet, Steven Gray and myself. It will be an update on the NCL – New City Landscape data collected from twitter. The collection of monitored urban areas around the world has now grown…
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