First Ideas / Basic Concept

The basis of the planned research for this term are big data representations. With focusing on gained knowledge from previous works, such as virtual reality and sound or user experience in immersive museum installations, new ways for presenting and experiencing massive data bases will be created and tested. Research in the large field of big data will be conducted, prototypes created and at a later stage tested through user studies. A detailed Gantt chart will follow.
The type of data used for the application obviously has a vast impact on the actual look and outcome of the final piece. There are plenty of interesting databases and live data sources on the web, that shall be examined  and worked with throughout the research phase. Possible data bases / data streams are:

• Cosm (all kinds of mostly private data live streams, such as weather, etc.)
• World Bank (massive data base of finance, health and population data as excel files)
• Google Public Data (lots of different data bases)
• Gapminder.org Brilliant Project by Hans Rosling
• Stock Market (Stock Market live stream provided by Yahoo!)