Real-time map of what is happening in the city, and includes traffic density, Foursquare check-ins and data from Bicing. Name of piece: BCN Beats Author: Oriol Pastor, Eduard Llorens (Telenoika), Alberto González Paje (Bestiario), Félix Casanellas (Associació per Joves Teb), Rubén Abad, Álex González, Óscar Marín (Outliers), Rocío Má...

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The project is an interactive Data Visualization to explore purchases made by customers of BBVA Bank between 2012 and April 2013, classified by the cus- tomer’s origin. The visualization shows distances of the customer based on its postal code, so we can see which zones have customers from the city itself and which zones have customers coming from outsid...

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Before email, the world of scholarship relied on its own networks, which facili- tated the dissemination and criticism of ideas and the spread of political news, as well as the circulation of people and objects. But what did these networks actually look like? This project develops interactive visualisation tools based on the correspondence between thinker...

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Data Will Help Us is a brief manifesto about the promise and perils of data, commissioned by The New York Times. “Big Data” has become a kind of ubiquitous modern salve that now gets applied to almost any kind of ailment. In fields ranging from education, to government, to healthcare, to advertising, to dating, to science, to war, we’re abandoning ti...

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On 9 June 2013, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras made public the identity of Edward Snowden, an NSA contractor who several days previously had leaked documents on mass surveillance programmes classified as “top secret”. Snowden thus revealed the intromission of the US authorities into people’s private lives and the complicity of the major I...

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