Here’s the problem with most news: it isn’t. It’s olds. It happened hours ago, or last night, or yesterday, or last month, or before whenever the deadline was in the news organization’s current “news cycle”. It’s not now. — Doc Searls
At O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology show, in San Diego this week. Check out the Program Schedule, Keynote sessions, Events and Speakers as well as the news coverage. ETech, takes a wide-eyed look at the brand new including:
- Body Hacking, Genomics Hacking. Brain Hacking, Sex Hacking, Food Hacking, and iPhone Hacking.
- DIY Aerial Drones, DIY Talking Things, DIY Spectrum, and DIY Apocalypse Survival.
- Emerging Tech of India, Cuba, and Africa. International Political Dissidents.
- Visualize Data and Crowds. Ambient Data Streaming
- Good Policy. Energy Policy. Defense Policy. Genetic Policy. Corruption.
- Alternate Reality Games, Emotions of Games, and Sensor Games.
Dr. Paul M. Torrens at the School of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University showed off his Geo Simulation which maps WiFi reception on 3D GIS software.
Wi-Fi data traffic is invisible to the eye but clearly seen in 3D space. Pick a parameter. Fly-by
This scheme has been successfully proven in the study of Wi-Fi geography in Salt Lake City, UT. A dense network of Wi-Fi is found to permeate the city’s built environment and the urban area has been blanketed in a fog of Wi-Fi transmissions without any centralized organization.
While commercial penetration of Wi-Fi misses the traditional tourist and retail areas of the city, public Wi-Fi is being used to encapsulate and reinforce civic space in the city.
It illustrates how practical GIS can be in mapping the wireless environment. Any environment, really.
While software packages like these have been available to broadcasters for years, the advent of open source software and inexpensive sensors could revolutionize the gathering and analysis of data.
Even “news”.
One of my favorite data visualization sites is Visual Complexity. Why read a newspaper if News Maps make listening or watching faster and easier.
Additional DailyWireless articles include Visualizing the Future, The Vision Project, iGrid 2005, 3-D Traffic/Weather Maps, Crime Maps, The Semantic Web, Supercomputer Cells, Remote Ocean Viewer, Oceanographic Dead Zone, Earth Simulator, Navizon on Blackberry: GPS Not Required, Virtual Earth Adds Cities, Land Warrior Retires, HumaniNet’s Maps 2.0, 3-D Traffic/Weather Maps, Mapping Goes Live, News Maps and Google Apps on LG Phones.
