30/06/2012Barcelona heat (economic map) | Telefónica I+D
Mobile telephone data segmented by time bands give rise to a new territorial d...
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...
27/02/2012MWC Impact | CARTODB and BBVA
The interactive visualization shows the number of credit card transactions in ...
30/06/2012Barcelona cruise passenger behavior | Telefónica I+D
Every time a cruise ship arrives in Barcelona, a phenomenon of connection to l...
30/06/2006Flightradar24-Live air traffic | Flightradar24
Flight tracking service that provides you with real-time info about thousands ...
10/03/2014Visitors data analytics | Counterest
In numerous contemporary environments from shopping centres and supermarkets t...
20/09/2008Tele-Present Water | David Bowen
This installation shows in real time the physical movement of the surface of t...
08/05/2014The world’s pulse | Interviews
With Adam Greenfield, author of “Against the smart city” (2013) an...
01/01/2014Flux | Pim Pam Pum
Flux shows the flows of financial transactions in Madrid and Barcelona, deter-...
30/06/2004Marine Traffic project | Marine Traffic
This web site is part of an open, community-based project. It provides free re...
04/05/2013Thingful.net | Umbrellium
All over the world, millions of organisations and individuals use connected ob...
04/12/2013_BIG BANG DATA
_BIG BANG DATA is an exhibition about the ‘datafication’ of the world curate...
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.