Rick Williams » data visualisation

Aaron Koblin – Radiohead – House Of Cards

Rick — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:09:37 +0000

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Schulze&Webb: Here & There as a video

Rick — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:36:08 +0000

via schulzeandwebb.com

Schulze&Webb created this brilliant visual as a solution to improving the way in which we use maps.

Then they did this:

Data visualisation as a form of MetaData

Rick — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:03:12 +0000

O’Reilly Online interviewed the BBC’s Alia Sheikh at Mashed 08, who’s part of the BBC R&D team. She presented a fantastic Data Visualisation piece based on a radio stream.

2hrs of radio is sampled and displayed as a spiral of varying colours. The colours and their length within the spiral depict the type of audio playing e.g. talk, phone-in, pop song etc.

The most interesting thing about this is mentioned at the end of the presentation when Alia parallels what can be learnt just by looking at the visualisation of the stream in the same way as you’d use metadata.

This ties in nicely with this article from the Times onlne which reports on the announcement by the BBC that they’re prepared to work with commercial rivals in both programme making and digital advances.

Such a tool would massively minimize costs involved in finding archive clips within long form programming very cheaply.