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
http://landquest.internewskenya.org/
problem
brazil-election
utility
live data, import api and remote
sync
inspiration: space/time
how we think about software
nasa
tom sachs
sara hendren
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
historical lakes, odyssey @cartodb, bl.ocks.org/auremoser
grants: nonprofit + startup
more partnerships: spacetime.nypl.org
more integrations: gdelt
hi-res satellite captures
make human maps
account for flux
respect spacetime
thank you!
@auremoser [email protected]