WeAreData - London

http://wearedata.watchdogs.com/start.php?locale=en-EN&city=london

by fmavituna • 13 years ago

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smoyer2• 13 years ago

What 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• 13 years ago

It's missing a lot of public toilets and, in any event, McDonalds toilets are free and all over the place :-)

smoyer2• 13 years ago

Good point ... perhaps the marked public toilets are those maintained by the government?

buf• 13 years ago

Amazing 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.

freyfogle2• 13 years ago

Here's an API of UK property rental (and sales) prices as well as actual properties

http://www.nestoria.co.uk/help/api

enjoy

rob_mccann• 13 years ago

Here's an API for police data http://data.police.uk/docs/

justincormack2• 13 years ago

Hmm, I just get a black screen (Chrome, Ubuntu). Any idea what might be missing?

Deathmax• 13 years ago

Its running on Flash.

justincormack2• 13 years ago

Ah ok, I don't have flash on this machine; usually you get a missing plugin error, but no, nothing.

zevyoura• 13 years ago

It is? Does the flash based experience differ from the version I'm seeing on my iPad?

noiv• 13 years ago

You have 2 seconds to load 3MB flash...

sdfjkl• 13 years ago

Requires Local Storage enabled in your Flash preferences (aka flash cookies/LSO).

cyanbane• 13 years ago

What a brilliant marketing method for this game. I don't think it could have been more perfectly timed (in history).

Roritharr• 13 years ago

If only Ubisoft didn't have a major password theft scandal on their hands losing unencrypted passwords.

quaunaut• 13 years ago

Uh, what? They were hashed and salted, from everywhere I've read.

AYBABTME• 13 years ago

Password theft are harmless if you use randomly generated passwords ;)

oldmanjoe• 13 years ago

Shame about the dark and dingy colour scheme...

skram2• 13 years ago

This is quite nifty. I'm not usually into games or gorilla marketing but I'm going to keep an eye out for this.

tikhonj• 13 years ago

Guerilla 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.

skram2• 13 years ago

Haha - whoops!

sk00byd002• 13 years ago

Fascinating. 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• 13 years ago

It's the average salary, which can skewed by a handful of extreme outliers.

sk00byd002• 13 years ago

Yes 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.

kryten• 13 years ago

I 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.

contingencies• 13 years ago

...the hipsters to hell.

Back in ~2009, living on the southern periphery in Whitechapel, we came up with the idea to call 'em ditchies.

There's a decent old-school pub left with some serious artists (aged and incoming) directly opposite the East London Mosque. It's run by an alcoholic former schoolteacher who reckoned it was better public service running a bar (apparently, for artists). Good place.

muyuu• 13 years ago

I live in Tower Hamlets and I have a hard time believing that figure. I guess there are plenty of super-rich in West India Quay, Canary Wharf and Pan Peninsula.

The median salary is probably around 1/3 of that.

mstrem• 13 years ago

I 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• 13 years ago

Would 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 2. https://data.cityofchicago.org/

WeAreData - London

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