FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through data visualization. Money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste, and personal information you enter online are all forms of data. How can we understand these data flows? Data visualization lets non-experts make sense of it all.

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CellGuided is a modern version of traditional treasure hunts. Use a mobile phone to receive directions and solve clues. Any mobile phone will work! No need to fiddle with GPS, SMS, installing applications, etc.

With CellGuided you can create routes, share them with your friends or publish them for all to enjoy.

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The concept is pretty simple. Just like MapQuest, Google, Microsoft, and other mapping programs, Ride the City finds the shortest distance between two points. But there are two major differences. First, RTC excludes roads that aren’t meant for biking, like the BQE and the Queens Midtown tunnel. Second, RTC tries to locate routes that maximize the use of bike lanes and greenways.

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The Atlas of Cyberspace illustrates graphically, the shapes, structures and complex forms of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other virtual media. Drawing on five years worth of research, and divided into four key sections – infrastructure and traffic, information navigation, community and communication, artistic visions – the best and most interesting maps of cyberspace have been compiled into this unique atlas for the Internet age.

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I am geography lecturer at the University of Manchester. This blog is a place to post details on research activities and various interests.

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DIYcity was created in October 2008 by John Geraci. The site explores the idea that open, participatory web technologies, applied to city living patterns, infrastructure and services, can radically transform cities as we know them, making them more efficient, more livable and more sustainable.

People all over the world are invited to exchange ideas on how they can reinvent their local areas, offering examples of applications, open source code, and anything else that will help develop a collective approach to building these new DIY cities.

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Who Is Sick was started in 2006 with a mission to provide current and local sickness information to the public – without the hassle of dealing with hospitals or doctors. With a strong belief in the power of people and a faith that user generated content can be extremely valuable, our team set out to create an entirely new system for tracking and monitoring sickness in your area and obtain sickness information. Information retrieved by tracking sickness in my area can also be used to map sickness trends in my region.

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Sekai Camera is the killer iPhone application I was looking for: just point your camera anywhere around you to have instant feedback about whatever is on your screen. Directions, reviews, messages, offers, and any tag you can imagine will appear floating in front of you, adding a graphic overlay to the world.

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magewiki makes it easy to create hyperlinks to anything in the world! Take a picture of anything and add comments, rants & raves. We do image recognition to connect you with other users who saw the same image. Hide notes in real-world objects or tell people about how good that album is, or where that band on the poster is playing or anything you can imagine!

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Time is plastic. Our linear measure is man made for convenience. The oversimplification of minutes, hours, days is functional in a base utilitarian sense, yes, but fails to account for point of entry, context, point of view, the density of what is occurring in time and how it is thus experienced. Time is geometric; it also has the experiential component and this has height, width, variation and forms from point of view and processes differently with each individual. An event in time thus is not only to be measured in its variable detail, but also of its place in time. This is not a time-line.

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