Category: Information visualization

  • Lisbon’s Blood Vessels: a cartogram and a metaphor

    Lisbon’s Blood Vessels: a cartogram and a metaphor

    In this work the traffic of Lisbon is portrayed exploring metaphors of living organisms with circulatory problems. Rather than being an aesthetic essay or a set of decorative artifacts, my approach focuses on synthesizing and conveying meaning through data portrayal. This portrayal is embodied in the visualization: The Blood Vessels in the traffic of Lisbon.…

  • Data lenses

    Data lenses

    The Data Lenses is a visual exploration tool for several attributes of the same dataset: buses in Singapore. As described in the video, it enables to select various types of data, while speeding up and slowing down the simulation. The data that it reads is not pre-processed and therefore is aggregated on the fly on…

  • Commuters origins

    Commuters origins

    Using swarm simulation for edge bundling.

  • The Morphing City

    The Morphing City

    The Morphing City is a visualization study where a city mutates its shape accordingly with the traffic on its main arteries. Those morphs tend to traduce the actual perceived distances within a city, bypassing the common perception based on its geographical mapping. This visualization model was executed for the city of Lisbon. To attain it,…

  • Visualizing Empires decline – revisited

    Visualizing Empires decline – revisited

    This work refines the latest Visualizing Empires Decline — the decline of the largest maritime empires of the 19 and 20th centuries with a sober approach.

  • Traffic in Lisbon and the visualization of trajectories

    Traffic in Lisbon and the visualization of trajectories

    Several experiments that map 1534 vehicles, during October 2009 in Lisbon, leaving route trails, condensed in one single day.

  • Aaron in Lisbon?

    Aaron in Lisbon?

    Getting back to the Lisbon only dataset, I have 1534 taxis vehicles to map during October 2009. How will it look like using the same production scheme as the last artifact? Eye candy, eye candy. Not much to extract. Also, I’m noticing that I have to go into more complex data filtering and clustering schemes,…

  • Hello… Aaron Koblin!

    Hello… Aaron Koblin!

    When you start in a field, it’s not a bad idea to start imitating some reference work. Aaron Koblin’s Flight Patterns are a reference in information aesthetics. Is this work going to evolve in something closer to Koblin’s Flight Patterns? I plan to differentiate, but I don’t mind to pass through it as natural work…

  • Hello… colorful Portugal!

    Hello… colorful Portugal!

    Continuing to explore. The dataset with more than 3 million entries for two months, “only” reports to 496 unique taxis. Each one is represented by a single random color. I see how much the metropolitan areas are colorful comparing to the rest of the territory. I also notice how certain routes are stuck to one…

  • Hello… Portugal!

    Hello… Portugal!

    Looks like I couldn’t avoid myself in taking a look into traffic data (taxis) for all over Portugal, between November and December 2008. Continuing to explore. The dataset with more than 3 million entries for two months, “only” reports to 496 unique taxis.

  • Hello… Lisbon!

    Hello… Lisbon!

    I started exploring some data relative to taxi traffic in Lisbon. Totaling more than 2 million entries, the data reports to October 2009, and for each information received from a taxi, I draw a point in its location. There is also some data reporting to November and December 2008, of more than 3 million entries. It…

  • Top 10 word posters for Os Lusíadas

    Top 10 word posters for Os Lusíadas

    Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads), is a Portuguese epic poem by Luís Vaz de Camões. Written in Homeric fashion, the poem focuses mainly on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries.