Android devices come in all shapes and sizes, with vastly different performance levels and screen sizes. Furthermore, there are many different versions of Android that are concurrently active at any one time, adding another level of fragmentation. What this means is that developing apps that work across the whole range of Android devices can be …
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Twitter and synchrony
We can use billions of public Tweets to detect events and visualize the synchrony they generate at a large scale. Tweets about sunsets spike when there’s a sunset. We can use this pattern of Tweets to visualize how the time when the sun sets differs by season, as well as to compare how these lines …
A Month of Citi Bike
It’s been nearly two months since New York City rolled out its bike-sharing program. To see how it’s faring, we used live data, provided by Citi Bike, to map where people rode for one month. As the month progresses, the circles on the map grow or shrink according to the number of available bikes at …
The geography of Tweets
Give every Twitter user a brush and they will paint you the world — if they geotag their Tweets. Plot all geotagged tweets on a white canvas and you get back a view of the world according to Twitter’s users. Note how on the map above maritime traffic also is shown. The geography of Tweets …
re:publica ’13 Visitor Flow Analysis Using the Conference Wifi
How did the visitors of re:publica 2013 move from one session to the other? By mapping the wireless connections onto the floor plan we can visualize the visitor flow. (Translated the above from German. Lovely word, that Besucherstromanalyse … which translates to visitor flow analysis) re:log – Besucherstromanalyse per re:publica W-LAN →
Drawing Dynamic Visualizations
Chart.js
ViziCities
We’re about to bring cities to life using big data and the power of the web. Inspired by the data visualization from the latest SimCity, ViziCities is located at the intersection of data, art and play. Powered by Three.js and lots of other web technologies. Be sure to read the dev diary, it contains a …