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Here in Aspen Colorado for Aspen Security Forum | Aspen Strategy Group Ready for the next few days of discussion, conversations and debates on…
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Experience & Education
Volunteer Experience
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Processing Workshop at Seattle Design Festival 2014
Design in Public
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Arts and Culture
Taught an advanced data visualization workshop using Processing at the Seattle Public Library, for the 2014 Seattle Design Festival.
Publications
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Invisible Cities: Representing Social Networks in an Urban Context
Parsons Journal for Information Mapping
Cities are comprised of complex social networks. In addition to the physical architecture these networks define our experience of the urban environment. Invisible Cities, a project named after the novel by Italo Calvino, aims to provide insight into the composition of urban social networks by surfacing data from online services, geographically mapped, in order to identify the areas of high and low activity. The visualization thus reveals emerging social themes.
Invisible Cities is a…Cities are comprised of complex social networks. In addition to the physical architecture these networks define our experience of the urban environment. Invisible Cities, a project named after the novel by Italo Calvino, aims to provide insight into the composition of urban social networks by surfacing data from online services, geographically mapped, in order to identify the areas of high and low activity. The visualization thus reveals emerging social themes.
Invisible Cities is a multivariate data visualization presented as a three-dimensional spatial environment. It displays individual Twitter status updates and Flickr photos on a geo-registered surface reflecting aggregate activity over time. As data records are accrued, the surface transforms into hills and valleys representing areas with high and low densities of data. Data points are connected in chronological order by paths representing themes extracted from status updates and image metadata.
The project’s three-dimensional representation enables the simultaneous macro- and micro-reading of information through its perspectival compression within the field of view. The foreground displays detailed information at a local level, while the surrounding context offers the comparison with other data. The outcome is an immersive space the viewer can explore, creating immediate parallels that may respond to or contradict the physical architecture of the city. It also allows for the real-time analysis of overlapping themes present within localized social networks.Other authorsSee publication -
Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design
Routledge
Contributed a chapter on data visualization and Pastiche, an independent project.
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Pastiche — A Collective Composition of New York City
Parsons Journal for Information Mapping
The city is a composite of impressions. Beyond the built environment, it is a constantly changing pastiche of associations and experiences - not just of the people who inhabit it, but of the larger community. New York City, in particular, has two realities: the reality of the physical environment, and the reality of the idea - of what the city and its diverse neighborhoods signify. Inseparably intertwined, these two realities constantly continue to inform each other. Pastiche is a dynamic data…
The city is a composite of impressions. Beyond the built environment, it is a constantly changing pastiche of associations and experiences - not just of the people who inhabit it, but of the larger community. New York City, in particular, has two realities: the reality of the physical environment, and the reality of the idea - of what the city and its diverse neighborhoods signify. Inseparably intertwined, these two realities constantly continue to inform each other. Pastiche is a dynamic data visualization that maps keywords from blog articles to the New York neighborhoods they are written in reference to, geographically positioned in a navigable, spatial view. Keywords are assigned based on relevance, and surround their corresponding neighborhoods. The result is a dynamically changing description of the city, formed around individual experiences and perspectives.
Conceptually, Pastiche is a parallel experience of the city, a map that not only documents, but also suggests action. It is a public counterpart to the private physical architecture of the city. Its source an aggregate of individual blogs, Pastiche is a system that anyone has the ability to contribute to. It defines a new kind of public space, while both proposing an experience and inviting comparison - in the process of relating one's own perspective to a larger collective subjectivity, one situates oneself in relation to an impromptu community, formed around the idea of New York.Other authors -
Honors & Awards
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Webpick of the Day
Communication Arts
The Schema website was featured as a Webpick of the Day on the Communication Arts website.
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20th Annual Interactive Competition
Communication Arts
Winner of the Communication Arts 20th Annual Juried Interactive Competition, for Actively Learn. The project will be featured in the 2014 Interactive Annual and on the Communication Arts website.
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Gold Award
User Experience Awards
Winner of a Gold Award in the 2013 User Experience Awards for Actively Learn.
Languages
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English
Native or bilingual proficiency
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German
Native or bilingual proficiency
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SEGD
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