by Emina | Mar 2, 2015 | blog
Wondering where to get started? We’ve compiled a few useful lists about easy to use visualization tools and some visualizations we really like that look at data from an interesting perspective. We hope you get inspired and we can’t wait to see all of your projects. Don’t forget, you can be as creative as you wish in your format, and integrate any existing openly available datasets you wish! Submit to our Data Art Challenge by March 20th! Visualization Tools Cartodb is a cloud-based solution for creative mapping of data. Connect live data sources to Infogram’s infographics, charts and visualizations. D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data. Leaflet is an Open-Source JavaScript library for mobile-friendly interactive maps. Inspirations using d3 http://weather.zanarmstrong.com http://halftone.co/portfolio/global-temperatures/ http://bl.ocks.org/syntagmatic/fc62d1de6ada1e06b803 http://windhistory.com/station.html?KEWN http://windhistory.com/map.html#8.00/35.300/-76.083 http://multimedia.scmp.com/china-air-pollution-in-2014/ http://www.maartenlambrechts.be/vis/warm2014/warm2014.html...
by Emina | Feb 25, 2015 | blog
Data Canvas: What are you doing within OpenSense at ETH Zurich? Olga Saukh: OpenSense is a framework of several projects aiming to gain insights about variations of urban air quality, its causes, and how it impacts citizens’ health. Cities attract many people for plentiful job opportunities, better logistics, education, urban lifestyle. One downside of this trend is high traffic and increased pollution. OpenSense consolidates engineers, environmental scientists and health specialists across several leading Swiss research institutions to develop tools, methods and models which would allow every citizen to become aware about the quality of the air he or she breathes, associated health threats and the share of his behaviour and lifestyle in it. As part of OpenSense (http://www.opensense.ethz.ch), my colleagues at ETH Zurich and I are focusing our activities on measuring and modeling urban air quality and understanding what its driving factors at different locations are. Supported by VBZ, Empa, FHNW, Lunge Zurich and the city of Zurich, we have successfully been operating ten air quality measurement stations on top of ten trams in Zurich over the past three years. By now, we gathered a unique urban air quality data set comprising more than 100 million measurements, which we used to construct high-resolution air pollution maps of Zurich (http://goo.gl/H6QSSF). These maps enable applications that were not possible before. For example, using the maps the hRouting smartphone app (http://goo.gl/fz2f8l) analyzes how much urban residents can reduce their exposure to air pollution by taking a healthier route instead of the shortest one. DC: What challenges are you facing while measuring and analyzing air quality and other environmental data today? OS: Advances...
by Emina | Feb 24, 2015 | blog
To help inspire you for Data Canvas: Sense Your City, we are organizing educational meet ups worldwide for you to work on your own project for the Data Art Challenge, get guidance from experts in the field, and participate in tutorial sessions in cutting-edge data visualization tools. On February 22, we invited media artist Taurin Barrera, Beth Schechter and Eric Gelinas from Stamen Design, and Infogr.am‘s founder Mikko Jarvenpaa to share their data visualization knowledge with the Data Canvas community in San Francisco. If you couldn’t make it, check out the videos below and get inspired to submit! ...
