Real-time City Visualization
February 25th, 2010 | Friends | Categories: Data Visualization, Geolocation, Inspiration, Mobile, Social, Technology | Tags: app, data, Data Visualization, Inspiration, maps, Mobile, real-time, Social, Technology | No Comments »
Currentcity, an initiative of Senseable City Lab at MIT is working with mobile operators and data providers to build applications that address city management problems. Using anonymized mobile phone location data they measure the patterns of human activity in urban environments.
Below is a video of real-time visualization of SMS exchanges in Amsterdam. Each dot represents a message sent. There is a huge spike on 12/31/07 during the turn of the new year.
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