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Invisible Maps is a map of the Barcelona’s invisible assets. Using QR codes, highlights events and places and interact with the land and its history through mobile technology.
Over time and years the city has changed a lot, each new layer hides the above. Citizen participation then takes a new value: the objective is to recover hidden memories in the minds of people, thousands of fragments that are rebuilt and located in the city leaving us better understand the urban environment that surrounds us.
Invisible Maps Barcelona presents a vision of focusing on this participation, highlighting events and places that have profoundly personal experiences. Thus, it creates a map of the city’s invisible assets. QR codes using the opportunity to interact with the land and its history through mobile technology.
Since October 2010 we’ve been collaborating with our friends from Bestiario on their newest project called Impure.
Impure is a visual programming language that simplifies the process of visualizing information. It has a complete set of visualizations, controls, operators and data models with which you can use to make your own space for analyzing almost any kind of data. The information can be gathered from different sources, not only user data, but also from internet feeds like social media, financial data or real time processes. Impure is based on linking visual modules, like PureData or Max/MSP.
Since everything is online, you can use it by just signing up. Once you have created an account, you can start to create your own spaces, store and share them.
Impure has been presented in several data visualization world conferences and festivals to high praise and acclaim. Because it is very easy to use and very fast showing results playing with data, Impure is also a good tool for teaching data visualization. For more info, you can check the Impure Blog.
We would like to congratulate Bestiario and especially Santiago Ortiz, for this fantastic tool and for the countless hours of work behind it. We are very proud to be a part of this project.
I’m sure everyone has been hearing some excited chatter regarding HTML5 and the falling out between Adobe and Apple. A lot of influential folks are putting their bets and hopes in HTML5 in hopes of creating a proper standard for the Web. If all this takes, it is likely that in the near future web development will change dramatically. Take a look at the infographic made by Focus.com for a simple comprehensive overview on what this means for you as an internet user.
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