All over the world, millions of organisations and individuals use connected objects that produce data and often transmit them via the Internet. These may range from smart energy monitors, weather stations and pollution sensors to shipping containers and even animals with tracking devices implanted. Thingful is a discoverability engine of the “Internet of ...

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Like in the las few years, OpenStreetMap analysed all the edits and produced a visualisation. This year they wanted to highlight different Project that Open- StreetMap contributors have done, such as: Antarctica coastline imports, com- pletion of the boundary data in France or the relief mapping in the Philippines. So instead of having an uniform rotation...

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Wind Map is the representation, in real time, of the movements of the winds that flow over the United States. The data are extracted from the National Digital Forecast Database and are updated every hour. The work graphically represents this invisible source of energy that surrounds us, that powered the first explorations of the world and that will continu...

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The documentary maker Laura Poitras profiles William Binney, a veteran of the National Security Agency who helped design a top-secret program to collect Americans’ personal data. Binney explains how the program he created turned inward on this country. After resigning and speaking out publicly, he is among a group of N.S.A. whistle-blowers, risking his fr...

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This video compares Usain Bolt, current world record holder in the men’s 100 metres, with medallists in the race from 116 years of Olympic Games. This visualisation compares the podium scores in this race over the course of all the Games, creating an enormous track that brings them all together. The video shows where each runner would be when Bolt finishe...

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