30/06/2012Barcelona heat (economic map) | Telefónica I+D
Mobile telephone data segmented by time bands give rise to a new territorial d...
08/05/2014The world’s pulse | Interviews
With Adam Greenfield, author of “Against the smart city” (2013) an...
30/06/2004Marine Traffic project | Marine Traffic
This web site is part of an open, community-based project. It provides free re...
10/03/2014Visitors data analytics | Counterest
In numerous contemporary environments from shopping centres and supermarkets t...
30/06/2012Russian tourism in Catalunya | Telefónica I+D
Roaming data indicate the place of origin of the user. In this case, we can ob...
20/09/2008Tele-Present Water | David Bowen
This installation shows in real time the physical movement of the surface of t...
04/05/2013Thingful.net | Umbrellium
All over the world, millions of organisations and individuals use connected ob...
20/07/2006Flight Patterns | Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin uses data to tell amazing visual stories that reflect on life and...
30/06/2013Barcelona Commercial Footprints | Xavier Giménez
The project is an interactive Data Visualization to explore purchases made by ...
04/12/2013_BIG BANG DATA
_BIG BANG DATA is an exhibition about the ‘datafication’ of the world curate...
08/05/2014Data Falls | Domestic Data Streamers
How can we extract quantative data on the impact of a work of art? This is the...
30/06/2013BCN Beats | Diversos
Real-time map of what is happening in the city, and includes traffic density, ...
Barcelona 9 May - 16 November 2014 | Madrid 12 March – 24 May 2015 | Buenos Aires 2 July – 28 November 2015
The world’s pulse
THE WORLD’S PULSE
What is datafication?The ease of storing large volumes of information at low cost comes hand in hand with another determining factor: ease in producing this information, thanks to the millions of sensors flooding the world. From GPS receivers that monitor goods and passenger transport to those measuring air quality in cities, the traffic on the roads and the functioning of assembly lines, for example.
This infrastructure is now essential for major global systems to work, but it also offers a new narrative, in real time, of urban, social, and economic mechanics.