Visualising Flux: Storytelling with Time, Space & Torque

VISUALIZING FLUX

Aurelia Moser, CartoDB | @auremoser [email protected]

storytelling with time, space, and torque

the rate of flow of a property per unit area, which has the dimensions[quantity]·[time]−1·[area]−1.[2]

flux

us river map, cartodb, tinyurl.com/river-cdbmap

iceland isomap, cartodb, tinyurl.com/cdb-iceland

indian election map, cartodb, http://tinyurl.com/cdb-indiatweet

math model that combines space and time into a single interwoven continuum;

a manifold consisting of “events” which are described by some type of coordinate system.

spacetime

respect spacetime

problem

utility

product

http://landquest.internewskenya.org/

problem

brazil-election

utility

product

live data, import api and remote

sync

inspiration: space/time

how we think about software

nasa

tom sachs

sara hendren

inspiration: nasa

science, stellar photos, landsat magic

mapping urban sprawl

1984 2011

2013

epecuén: shrinking lakes

1986

~ Todd Schroeder, USDA Forest Service,

2014

“Now that the entire Landsat archive is freely available it has become economically feasible to monitor disturbance over large areas using satellite

time series.”

nasa

tom sachs

sara hendren

inspiration: tom sachs

artist, architect, urban hacker

space program: mars, tom sachs, armory 2012

“our space program is expensive, slow, and

crappy and that’s why it’s magic”

~ Tom Sachs

nasa

tom sachs

sara hendren

inspiration: sara hendren

researcher, designer, Harvard GSD

accessible icon project, sara hendron et al, moma, 2011

“accessible design is universal design”

maps as digital prosthetics: making the city and its data more

accessible

citizen cartography

what can you do with cartodb?

manage + import data

Manage + Import Data

query + customize maps

crisis + crowd-mapping

humanitarian relief and mythic maps

port au prince, haiti, 2010 before/after on OSM

unreliable power

unreliable infrastructure

hostile environments

http://opennews.kzhu.io/map-disputes/

Bhutan, 2014, via Google Maps

apps that change the world

projects we support

ngo aid map, cartodb, http://ngoaidmap.org/

global forest watch, cartodb, http://www.globalforestwatch.org/

illustreets econ report, http://illustreets.co.uk/

fires in the amazon (2012-2014), http://infoamazonia.org/projects/fire/

super-novanew mapping features + coming

soon!

telling stories with torque

las vegas tourist traffic, cartodb, tinyurl.com/cdb-tourist

torque snowplow heatmaps, cartodb, tinyurl.com/snow-cdb

more open data

more projections

Visualising Flux: Storytelling with Time, Space & Torque

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