Matt Biddulph from Nokia offers a thoughtful overview of the potential for aggregate data. Mostly it confirms what we already know, the data is dead unless we ask interesting questions. What he shows us however is our growing ability to present data in interesting and engaging ways. What is less clear is how these things add value; are these representations merely pretty pictures or do they say something deep about our cities and behaviour?
Read the questions at the end... 'privacy', 'who benefits', etc.
Also see Oliver O'Brien's
Suprageography blog and pages.
Image credit: screen shot of Oliver O'Brien's London Bike Share Map (2/3/2011)
