Christchurch CDB Visualised in Data

Since the Feb 22nd earthquake, the centre of Christchurch has been cordoned off, empty and without power. This image shows the quiescent CDB, visualised using WiFi packets as a proxy for human activity.

Christchurch CBD visualised in WiFi packets

And for comparison, here’s the same area visualised with data from my iPhone WiFi geo-location database, from before Feb 22. The data and the collection methods are different, but you get the idea.


Gource

Gource is a lot of fun.  You point it at a source control repo (git or Mercurial) and it creates an animated visualisation of changes to the source code, over time.  Here’s an example from a web app I did recently. For best viewing, click through to Vimeo and watch the 720p version. Tip’o the hat to Andrew Caudwell.


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