Data Visualisation Allows Anyone to Learn on Broadway
Although most people know Broadway is the place to see the best live performances in the country, the majority may have never seen the actual street. Yet, the 13 miles of Broadway are now visible through the assembling of images and data from social network sites in a project entitled
On Broadway
. The project was created by Daniel Goodemeyer, Moritz Stefaner, Dominikus Baur, and Lev Manovich.
The project was inspired by the book,
Every Building on the Sunset Strip
, which unfolds to 25 feet wide, exposing photographs of both sides of a 1.5 mile section of the Sunset Strip. Data for On Broadway was collected for a spine-like shape created from 30 meter intervals that were 100 meters wide.
The data visualisation project took data from 660,000 Instagram photos from 158 days in 2014, Twitter posts with photos, Foursquare check-ins beginning in 2009, taxi destinations and pick ups in 2013, Google street views and economic information from the U. S. Census Bureau’s 2013 data. The data was not transformed into a map or chart but a “vertical stack of image and data layers.” The layers include (top to bottom) landmarks and anecdotes, Google Street view, façade colors, taxi statistics, Google Street view from above, social media statistics, income information, colors from Instagram pics, and a listing of the neighborhoods.
The data visualisation showed correlations across the field for certain areas, highlighting some tourist landmarks along the street. The New York Public Library’s Public Eye exhibition has the data visualisation on display until January 3, 2016 or the application can be opened
online
.
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