I was thinking about Hans Rolsings lecture, but instead of using
government data, using accidental data, the forensic, macro, data
that the internet is good at producing, to compute things of interest
to all of us. I know GIS has a much more scientific bent, but such
anecdotal data can lead to new ways of thinking about 'us'. After
all, science was largely discovered by accident.
On 27 Apr 2009, at 23:39, Paul Ramsey wrote:
The original article glances off a defect in the data, with the
mention that, curiously, the Apple Store is one of the most
photographed locales in New York. The full sentence should be "most
photographed by hipster doofuses who upload their photos to Flickr".
There's probably a pretty serious urban/rural bias in this data as
well as a large generational one.
P.
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Paul Harwood <[email protected]> wrote:
This flickr data is valuable though? not just eye candy,
especially if
shared and open. Feeding it into something like the new wolfram
engine along
with say coordinates of power stations, you could compute VERY rough
temporal energy consumption maps pretty quickly I guess amongst a
multitude
of other much better probable uses. (don't shoot me down, probably
the worst
example I could have thought of). Interesting ? :-) Accidental
mapping
could reveal a lot about 'us' when coupled with other bits of
pretty mundane
static data.
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