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MIT visualization of cellphone data flow during Obama's inauguration (senseable.mit.edu)
15 points by anigbrowl on May 26, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


"Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova..."

I post to draw attention to the visualization technology, rather than the political aspect, by the way.


Agreed -- this is stunning! I've never heard of this lab before, but they apparently place sensors and electronics around cities all over the world to gather and visualize data. Amazing!

http://senseable.mit.edu/




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