Title: Invisibles Cities

Category: #visualdata

Author: Christian Marc Schmidt & Liangjie Xia

Year: 2010

Url: http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com/invisiblecities/

Description: is a information mapping project that reveals social networks present within the urban environment. Allows realtime mapping of activity on Twitter and Flickr by displaying intensities and geographical relationships of twitter conversations. Data is displayed by location and hills and valleys are displayed representing areas with high and low densities of data. Invisible Cities maps information from one realm—online social networks—to another: an immersive, three dimensional space. In doing so, the piece creates a parallel experience to the physical urban environment. The interplay between the aggregate and the real-time recreates the kind of dynamics present within the physical world, where the city is both a vessel for and a product of human activity. It is ultimately a parallel city of intersections, discovery, and memory, and a medium for experiencing the physical environment anew.