Gee-Whiz Stuff 002

June 1, 2009 — architecture, bio-map, BioMapping, built environments, city planning, data visualization, donald appleyard, doodle buzz, doodlebuzz, flickr tagging, flickr tags, smart growth, tag galaxy, taggalaxy, Twitter Charts, Twitter tools, TwitterCharts, urban planning

Things that made me go “sweeeeeeet!” this week:

Twitter Charts

http://www.xefer.com/twitter

Enter a Twitter username and this will map out a scatter chart indexing time of day and day of the week for that person’s twitter postings. It gives you a picture of exactly when a person tends to be using Twitter.

Twitter Charts

BioMapping

http://www.biomapping.net

Map emotional responses to architecture and environments. Volunteers wear a Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) device, which provides an indication of  emotional arousal correlated to exact (GPS) geographical location.

Check out the various maps of cities around the world, each using a different visualization. Very cool. If only Donald Applegate had lived to see this stuff.

People re-explore their local area by walking the neighbourhood with the device and on their return a map is created which visualises points of high and low arousal. By interpreting and annotating this data, communal emotion maps are constructed that are packed full of personal observations which show the areas that people feel strongly about and truly visualise the social space of a community.

BioMapping.net

DoodleBuzz

http://www.doodlebuzz.com

Draw Your News. Enter a search term and start doodling like a 4 year old… let the casual pleasure of doodling influence the way you browse and explore news. Never underestimate the power of combining play and work; creativity and learning.

Doodle Buzz News Viewer

TagGalaxy http://taggalaxy.com

Enter a search term and this site will find all the photographs on Flickr with matching tags, then cluster similar or associated terms, rendering your main search as the biggest planet at the center of a galaxy and the associated terms show up as nearby planets.

Tag Galaxy, search term "Dana Point"

Move the planets around as you want, then click on any planet. It will gather all the photos from Flickr and paste them on the surface of the planet. Spin the planet to browse all the thumbnails. Click on any image to preview.

Tag Galaxy, preview of one picture on planet "Dana Point"

“Sweeeet.”