Project inspired by the old days Noösphere concept.

Visualization picks the real-time data from public APIs and calculates overall strength of signal (recent network buzz) for two given keywords. Some picked events have geolocation information, so they mapped on the globe in the exact points.

The overall strength visualized around the globe as “noo”-cloud, the size of which reflects event streams and shaped by geotagged data, building light abstract visual structures-snapshots in space for each term.

It explores abstract visual component of generated crowd sourced info streams as the visual connection attaching you to the pulse of planet.

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For now data streamed from following services:

• Twitter,
• New York Times,
• Flickr,
• YouTube,
• Digg,
• Technorati.

Current news illustrated

Mashup screensaver gets last New York Times online news through it’s new Newswire API and illustrates them with current relevant crowd-sourced Flickr photos in real-time.

Thus visualization fetches and compares both edited and community produced media content for latest events/news. Flickr part is more meditative than real-time of course. And, yes, sometimes it’s quite a badass photo editor.

Before going real-time visualization plays time-lapse of previous headlines. It’s possible to track news for a topic you’re interested in or just track current news in real-time. Graphics represents which topics were covered in given time frame and the timeline of their appearance.

Featured in New York Times Developer Network Gallery

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