Locus is a news archive visualisation that maps Guardian articles to places over time.
There are currently two locations available: Locus Afghanistan, and Locus Iraq. Let us know what you think!
NewsCloud is a news archive visualisation showing themes relating to a search term fluctuate over time – a temporal tag cloud.
There are two versions of the project: BBC Science News, and Guardian Open Platform. Let us know what you think!
The World Events Visualiser aims to expose the connections between historical events. Each dot on the map represents a place and the list on the right hand side shows the people and events related to these places.
Let us know what you think!
Graphviz Jungle is an experiment in sketching the BBC site map as static images of its underlying graph structure.
Let us know what you think!
NewsTraces 1.0 explores BBC News headlines from the Americas since 2000. Entering a search displays all the matching news stories chronologically.
This is the first project that uses a new dataset of BBC News archive metadata. The source code and data for the project are available, so do let us know if you make anything new with them, and leave comments here.
Guardian NewsTraces explores the Guardian since 2000 and uses the Guardian Open Platform.
In this visualisation we have tried to imagine what kind of interfaces will be made possible with web enabled set top boxes like Canvas and Google TV.
To see the visualisation and read about how it was created please visit the project page.
Please let us know what you think of the visualisation using the comment form below.
We had a soft launch of the project at Xmas leading up to this more public launch now. Thanks to everyone involved. Please keep checking back as we will be releasing more material in the months to come leading up to November which is the official 2nd phase of the project.
Flared Music is a simple Flash visualisation which shows relationships between musicians as stored in the BBC Music / Musicbrainz database. It is intended to be both a useful means of graphically exploring this huge dataset, and also an example of how to write a visualisation application in Actionscript 3 using a BBC data API and the Prefuse Flare visualisation library.
To see the visualisation and read about how it was created please visit the project page.
Please let us know what you think of the visualisation using the comment form below.
This visualisation was developed for the Virtual Revolution series on BBC2. It’s interesting from a data visualisation perspective for two reasons; it uses a video as it’s data source and it uses a 3d interface.
To see the visualisation and read about how it was created please visit the project page.
Please let us know what you think of the visualisation using the comment form below.
Hello and welcome to the data art blog. This is a place where we will talk about our projects and encourage readers to post links to their own work.
We have launched the site with two initial visualisations. Each have their own blog entry and if you have any suggestions/comments regarding these you can find them below.
This blog doesn’t require registration to participate but all comments will be moderated by a member of our team.
