WeAreData - London

  • 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.

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

  • 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/

  • 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?

  • 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...

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

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

  • 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?)

  • Shame about the dark and dingy colour scheme...