Sense of Patterns | { casualdata }

Sense of Patterns is an on-going project, a series of printed data visualizations aiming to depict the behaviors of masses in different public spaces. The visualizations have a focus on the patterns of moving entities in public like commuters, cars and public transportation vehicles as well as the interaction between these entities and physical structures like roads, sidewalks, buildings and parks. The project intends to provide strong visuals on what we all experience in our daily lives in different cities.

The first edition of the project consists of six A1 size prints and a video animation based on the data related to Vienna and its suburbs. Two different datasets provided by AIT: Austrian Institute of Technology sorted with python and visualized by using processing. The first dataset includes taxi trips during the 25th of July, 2011. It has 915.353 single entries (Unique id of the trip, timestamps, longitude and latitude coordinates in WGS84). Second dataset includes coordinates of the locations of four commuters in Vienna region for five weeks. It has 520.331 single entries (Unique id of commuters, timestamps, longitude and latitude coordinates in WGS84).

Exhibitions and Features

9/2011Sensing Place / Placing Sense, AFO, Linz
9/2011Mit dem Taxi vom Datenberg in die Stadt
10/2011Featured on Visual Complexity
10/2011Q&A Session on Visualizing.org

Posters

One Day of Taxis: every taxi trip in Vienna on 25 July 2011 traced in yellow on a dark map, brightest in the centre, with a trail out to the airport

Twenty Four Hours of Taxis: twenty-four small black maps of the day’s taxi trips in Vienna, one for each hour

Length of Taxi Trips (printed with the title Twenty Four Hours of Taxis): rows of short red vertical strokes on white, one stroke for each taxi trip, by its length

Random Trips of Taxis: a grid of small grey maps of Vienna, each with one taxi trip in red and its trip number and time

Four Commuters: the routes of four commuters around Vienna over five weeks, drawn as thick red, pink, green and blue lines

Five Weeks of Four Commuters: a Monday-to-Friday calendar of the commuters’ routes, one small drawing for each day

Animation of the Code

Posters - Full Resolution

The posters were published on visualizing.org, which has since shut down. Archived copies:

Downloads

The six A1 posters, print PDFPDF, 172 MB

Credits & Thanks

Data sorting, python and processing codes, print layout and designs realized by Mahir Yavuz (mahir.yavuz [at] ufg.ac.at).

Datasets provided by AIT. Project is generously supported by AFO and AIT. Many thanks to Dietmar Offenhuber, Katja Schechtner, Markus Ray, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, AFO Architekturforum Oberösterreich, Ars Electronica Festival and MIT Senseable City Lab.

Special thanks to visualization community and processing folks!