interactive

Visualizing the city/ Nuovi modi di visualizzare la città

(EN) Database City is the title of the workshop held in Madrid last month. It was the second edition of a bigger project called Visualizar an open and participartory research project around theory, tools and strategies of information visualization: “VISUALIZAR 2008 is focused on the city context. Urban environments, which are becoming increasingly dense, complex and diverse, are one of contemporary society’s largest “databases”, daily generating volumes of information that require new methods of analysis and understanding” Inside the workshop, seven proposal have been developed. My favourites are these two: In the air is about making visible the invisible, visualizing gases, particles, pollen, diseases, and other different agents of Madrid’s polluted air. The result is a ghost city surrounded by a multicolored fog changing its shape and hue according to the information feed. Unfortunately the visualization is not online but on display at Medialab-Prado in Madrid through January 11th. City Murmur is about visualizing the urban space through the eyes

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Obesity factors/ I numerosi fattori dell’obesità

(EN) Obesity is spreading all over the world. UK is trying to understand what are the causes of this epidemic, funding a project  that transformed 38 science reviewes in an interactive diagram with 108 variables  to understand the wide range of different factors that influence levels of obesity. “Behind the simple result of people becoming heavier, lies a complex web of often reinforcing causal factors that range from individual psychology and physiology to the culture and economics of food production, food consumption, attitudes toward physical activity, and structure of the built environment.” Explore the project’s results and the map ————– (IT) L’obesità si sta diffondendo in tutto il mondo. In UK stanno cercando di capire come affrontare il problema finanziando un progetto che ha portato alla realizzazione di una mappa interattiva che permette di esplorare i 108 fattori diversi che causano l’obesità individuati da 38 studi scientifici. “Dietro il semplice risultato che vede le persone diventare più pesanti, si nasconde

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Another credit crisis infographic/ Un’altra infografica della crisi finanziaria

(EN) It’s an interactive graphic made at the beginning of last august and in the meanwhile Bush was declaring: “the fundamentals of our economy are strong”. In 2007, though, someone was already sensing the crisis… ———— (IT) E’ una grafica interattiva pubblicata all’inizio di agosto 2008 mentre Bush dichiarava: “I fondamenti della nostra economia sono solidi“. Già l’anno prima però qualcosa si intuiva…