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The New York Times as posted another crowd-sourced opinion visualization, this time about people's sentiments about the current Occupy Wall Street movement.
The concept is similar to their previous opinion visualizations, like those that were polling about the economic outlook, the US debt crisis, or Osama Bin Laden's death. Here, the answers of participants are represented as small dots, which are mapped against 2 axes: whether they agree on the main goals of the movement, and whether they agree on the methods of the protestors. The background color of each cell and of each matrix cells is determined according to additional qualitative questions that question the main contributors to the current problems of the country.
Art. Music. Ideas 11-14th May, Manchester UK. With an Art exhibition featuring Bestario see here http://vism.ag/55, the well known Nicholas Feltron see here http://vism.ag/3e, Mit project called Borderline, BBC Data Art project, Wilderness Downtown by Chris Milk & Aaron Koblin and what intirgues me and is a must to see is A Duet of Blizzards and Hurricanes Noel II by Nathalie Miebach.
Not only is there the art on show of data and mapping, you have the conference. Some intriguuing talks with Linked Data / LInked Stories sounding good as they look at data becoming more accessible everyday. Icononomical Data and Infographics looks good from icononomical founders. The internet of things that no longer exists, looking at the 24/7 of devices continuously connected to the internet in some way. Emotional Computing, Hacking Culture Urban Friction - Interfacing with the city. On the 14th May Saturday a free confrence with open data hack and the manchester creative co-op.
My budget couldnt stretch to all these but they certainly intrigue me. A zine exhibition to see and then the music. I'll be attending.
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Do you have a photograph of a place in Derby? Then upload it to here http://mappingderby.com/, have it geotagged, printed and added to this brilliant, low-fi, photographic map of derby.
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FORMAT needs your help to Map Derby. Throughout FORMAT Festival we will be asking Derby visitors and residents to photograph the city streets under the theme of ‘Right Here, Right Now’. Each photograph will be uploaded and geo-tagged to create a unique map of the city. Give us your thoughts, memories and inspirations of the city.
There will be a growing installation in The Royal Insurance Buildings, 2 The Strand, Derby where a 3D map of the city will grow day by day.' http://mappingderby.com/
Ok, its not completely low fi they use a lovely printer called a poga printer that uses paper that has the ink inside it so no need to replace cartridges, apparently £8.99 for about 70 sheets (I realise I sound like I just discovered apps for the first time). But I love the pins and pictures relating to that area on a lovely a3 enalrging, hockney-joiner, A-to-Z photocopies that arent quite as smooth as google street view but I think adds to its charm and beauty with the handmade approach.
I also love that pins go off the map into unchartered terrains and only the photographs are the evidence of it. It is wierd for an exhibition to be on woodchip wallpaper I must admit and i suppose the only thing I didnt like was that the map had gaps because of the walls, couldnt orientate myself, not that i'm that familiar with Derby, but maybe i'm being picky. They have tried to adapt a space to present this project and the online digital geo-tagged images on a google map are great.
Format Festival was excellent too, with collaborations on projects with Magnum.
http://www.formatfestival.com/
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Comob is a digital arts project that explores the potential for collaborative mapping with GPS technology. Comob was developed as a research tool to explore social and spatial relationships between people in motion.
'The relationships between people and spaces elicits a variety of responses, including intimacy, irritation, and exhilaration. We are interested in an awareness of where other people are and how that affects our experience of place. This workshop will look at how those relationships can be mapped, as live and moving visualisations'
Comob is an application developed for iPhones that explores collaborative mapping with GPS technology. The software allows members of a shared group to see each other’s position and movements in real time on their mobile phones.
You can download a free iPhone app ‘Comob net’ from the app store with more information on the project available at http://www.theportable.tv/contemporarycartographies. Wheres the Android app?
http://www.comob.org.uk/
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Can you picture it! Well google are probably well on their way developing it, but I want to share more doodles and ideas on this blog more.
Won't it be brilliant to use this as an app on your phone, or automatically detect a langauge from a sender then automatically translate it to the language you understand in their reciever. It cant be far away from development.
There is voice to text search app from google on my android htc, i'm sure there is text to voice that I hear students playing with on the mac with it. I can appreciate it probably takes a lot of servers to manage with the global population wanting to converse and communicate in their own lanaguage to other businessmen.
If you take the shannon and weaver communication model diagram of 1949 was... the noise in the middle would be the server translating and detecting idioms (uk an example would be: dog and bone, or up north: put wood in 'oil) and dialects.
Example:
English Voice to English text - server translate text (like at this site on toolbar) - Japanese Text to Japanese Voice
I admit the text to voice convertor might be limited in its translation of tone of the message from intonation of speech and inflection that comes from the rubato of spoken word. Maybe in time it can measure the pace, the raise in volume, the length of pauses, irony, but for now the nearest we can get to word for word meaning would be excellent.
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