I’m writing up all my thesis garbage right now, so I’ll have to explain my love of all this at a later date, but for now I wanted to post a bit about some of my favorite projects that really put data in the hands of anyone curious about it:
Cambridge Mobile Urban Sensing (CamMobSens)
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Of course, they’re doing things on phones, and half of my goal is to avoid that, but still. They showed several “google map visualisation showing some of our Carbon Monoxide data collected in Cambridge area (using Nokia mobile phones,each phone connects wirelessly to CO sensor and GPS receiver)” as well as the same tracking audio.
Of course, Intel Research’s Urban Atmospheres Group — Ergo
On-the-Go Air Quality Readings delivered to your mobile device
Part of their larger Participatory Urbanism movement.
And our own ITP favorites, Botanicalls Twitter!
And I just found this one, but I can’t believe how amazing it is:
SFEarthquakes on Twitter!
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