Popular Emotion Cartography

Posted: December 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Following the MIT SENSEable City Lab’s footsteps (RealTime Rome), Orange Labs and Faber Novel developed Urban Mobs, a tool showcasing their “popular emotion cartography” through the analyzes and visualization of citywide cellular network traffic activity. The featured chronotopes include uncovering “visitors” aggregated digital footprints in cellular network activity generated by foreign phones, linking mobile activities with public transport in the cellular network activity in the Paris subway, and revealing aggregated digital traces in the map of handovers generated by the movements of mobile phones during the national music day.

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Visualization of mobile phone calls in Barcelona during the Euro 2008 final

Relation to my thesis: Urban Mobs proves that Real-time Rome work is a pervasive solution that can be replicated to multiple cities and countries to mirror an aspect a city dynamics. Now the goal is to go beyond beautiful visualizations of dynamic urban data and extract their value added information as well as understand their applications and implications.

One Comment on “Popular Emotion Cartography”

  1. 1 Zbigniew said at 3:04 pm on December 17th, 2008:

    Now the goal is to go beyond beautiful visualizations of dynamic urban data and extract their value added information as well as understand their applications and implications.

    j’espère que tu le feras ;-)