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WeAreData - London
- skram 13y agoThis is quite nifty. I'm not usually into games or gorilla marketing but I'm going to keep an eye out for this.
- tikhonj 13y agoGuerilla marketing ;). "Gorilla marketing" certainly conjures up a nice image though. I personally like it more than normal marketing simply for variety: it forces marketers to be more creative and to try new things, which is never a bad thing. Certainly better than their standard approach of shoving their logo into my face enough times to imprint it into my brain.
- smoyer 13y agoWhat a great way to visualize data from many sources at once. (Is it only me or does the number of public toilets seem way too low for the population?)
- mickeyp 13y agoIt's missing a lot of public toilets and, in any event, McDonalds toilets are free and all over the place :-)
- smoyer 13y agoGood point ... perhaps the marked public toilets are those maintained by the government?
- mseebach 13y agoMcDonald's toilets aren't "public", you're supposed to cough up for a cheeseburger. It's just that nobody checks.
- tfinch 13y agoI did once visit a McDonalds in Romania where they required a pin number to enter the toilets, that was given out with purchases. However, standing by the door and waiting for someone to walk out worked quite well too.
- buf 13y agoAmazing visualization. I just checked my area near Shoreditch High Street and I learned things I never knew. The CCTV is especially interesting. It would be great to mix in average rental prices, hashtag clouds, or crimes from the police site as they are happening.
- freyfogle 13y agoHere's an API of UK property rental (and sales) prices as well as actual properties http://www.nestoria.co.uk/help/api http://www.nestoria.co.uk/help/api enjoy
- rob_mccann 13y agoHere's an API for police data http://data.police.uk/docs/ http://data.police.uk/docs/
- justincormack 13y agoHmm, I just get a black screen (Chrome, Ubuntu). Any idea what might be missing?
- Deathmax 13y agoIts running on Flash.
- justincormack 13y agoAh ok, I don't have flash on this machine; usually you get a missing plugin error, but no, nothing.
- zevyoura 13y agoIt is? Does the flash based experience differ from the version I'm seeing on my iPad?
- noiv 13y agoYou have 2 seconds to load 3MB flash...
- sdfjkl 13y agoRequires Local Storage enabled in your Flash preferences (aka flash cookies/LSO).
- cyanbane 13y agoWhat a brilliant marketing method for this game. I don't think it could have been more perfectly timed (in history).
- sk00byd00 13y agoFascinating. I find it especially interesting to see the results of gentrification. As someone who watched a million Nathan Barleys take over Shoreditch in the mid to late 00's until the artists left, it is absolutely amazing to see the average salary of Tower Hamlets is now £3400. Where did all those poor people go?
- sjtgraham 13y agoIt's the average salary, which can skewed by a handful of extreme outliers.
- sk00byd00 13y agoYes I understand that. What I was suggesting is that the poor people in Tower Hamlets haven't all been displaced, just the people in the Shoreditch triangle, which is tiny in population when you compare to say, Bow, just next door. So the amount of money brought in from the Shoreditch gentrification and subsequent business tax breaks leading up to the Olympics was so great in that one concentrated area that the ENTIRE Tower Hamlets looks decent statistically but the reality is very different.
- freyfogle 13y agoShoreditch Triangle is in Hackney, not Tower Hamlets. The divide is midway down Redchurch Street, I know as I used to live there and Tower Hamlets would manage to send us our council tax bill but then provide no services. Fun times.
- kryten 13y agoI left when they turned up as well and I'm no artist. There was a reasonable tech community around there before it went all trendy as most of us found it pretty cheap and convenient whilst raping the corporations around E1/Docklands as hard as we could on contract work (TBH they deserved it :) Poor people are still there, stacked up on top of each other in the estates around the top of City Road and around the focal point of Shoreditch. It's still like Islington (where I was born into abject poverty without even the prospect of an orange lined fluffy anorak or dunlops) in the 1970's around the back of Shoreditch. Total deprivation, but people are getting by somehow, without an iPhone or a power-job. Good luck to them but fuck the hipsters to hell.
- oldmanjoe 13y agoShame about the dark and dingy colour scheme...
- mstrem 13y agoI can imagine a similar thing with a lot more data sources and reliable data to be very impressive and scary at the same time. If you had access also to phone data, with position etc. it would be the ultimate stalking tool...
- waitwhatwhoa 13y agoWould love to see them do Chicago as it's the "setting"[1] for the game and the city has great data sharing[2]. 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPYgXvgS6Ww http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPYgXvgS6Ww 2. https://data.cityofchicago.org/ https://data.cityofchicago.org/