Interesting Projects

2012 Presidental Election Social Media Data

This project visualizes the mentions from Twitter, Facebooke and Google+ for the presidental election (duration from 22 Oct - 5 Nov 2012). The data is pretty straight forward, the visualization style is really interesting though.


Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture

This sculture created by Luke Jerram represents a 9 minute data stream recorded from a seismogram from the earthquake of the Tsunami catastrophe in Japan. This is a beautiful example on how to combine data and art and how to make data physical.

"To create the sculpture a seismogram of the earthquake, was rotated using computer aided design and then printed in 3 dimensions using rapid prototyping technology."

- Luke Jerram Website 

The size of the artwork is 30cm x 20 cm.

City Symphonies

This particular very interesting project uses data sonification and traffic data from London. Sounds are created by all cars driving or waiting together at traffic lights. Through that, a constantly changing soundscape is created, representing the London traffic.

References

Lukejerram.com (2011) Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture | Luke Jerram. [online] Available at: http://www.lukejerram.com/projects/t%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake [Accessed: 28 Nov 2012].

Markmckeague.com (n.d.) City Symphonies - Mark McKeague. [online] Available at: http://markmckeague.com/work/city-symphonies/ [Accessed: 28 Nov 2012].

S3.amazonaws.com (2012) 2012 U.S. Presidential Election - Social Media. [online] Available at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/SocialHarvest/aggregate.html [Accessed: 28 Nov 2012].