Lift Conference laurenthaug@gmail.com http://videos.liftconference.com/tag/data en-us Visualplatform http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Lift Conference The talks given at the Lift conference in video Lift gathers brilliant minds who share their ideas and insights on how digital technologies reshape society. technology, innovation, digital, internet, web, conference no http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/6401015 <p>Farida Vis is the lead social media researcher on a team that studied 2.6M tweets sent during the UK riots. The project, 'Reading the Riots on Twitter' (led by Professor Rob Procter) is a collaboration with The Guardian newspaper and Twitter. At Lift12 she gave a detailed and documented account of what happened. You will see that the early conclusions governing bodies jumped to are not very accurate...</p> <p>The data visualisation documenting the rumours that circulated on Twitter at the time, built by The Guardian Interactive team (led by Alastair Dant) has recently won a Data Journalism Award for the category data visualisation and storytelling (national/international). The full visualisation can be seen here: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2011/dec/07/london-riots-twitter">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2011/dec/07/london-riots-twitter</a>.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0px;">Have a look at the slides: slidesha.re/RTRTlift12</p><p><a href="http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/6401015"><img src="http://videos.liftconference.com/4959050/6401015/cb7b3438526a72901b739bb13ac60a8d/standard" width="645" height="362"/></a></p> http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/6401015 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:43:39 GMT Reading the riots on Twitter Farida Vis is the lead social media researcher on a team that studied 2.6M tweets sent during the UK riots. The project, 'Reading the Riots on Twitter' (led by Professor Rob Procter) is a collaboration with The Guardian newspaper and Twitter. At Lift12 she gave a detailed and documented account of what happened. You will see that the early conclusions governing bodies jumped to are not very accurate... The data visualisation documenting the rumours that circulated on Twitter at the time, built by The Guardian Interactive team (led by Alastair Dant) has recently won a Data Journalism Award for the category data visualisation and storytelling (national/international). The full visualisation can be seen here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2011/dec/07/london-riots-twitter. Have a look at the slides: slidesha.re/RTRTlift12 Farida Vis is the lead social media researcher on a team that studied 2.6M tweets sent during the UK riots. The project, 'Reading the Riots on Twitter' (led by Professor Rob Procter) is a collaboration with The Guardian newspaper and Twitter. At Lift12 she gave a detailed and documented account of what happened. You will see that the early conclusions governing bodies jumped to are not very accurate... The data visualisation documenting the rumours that circulated on Twitter at the time, built by The Guardian Interactive team (led by Alastair Dant) has recently won a Data Journalism Award for the category data visualisation and storytelling (national/international). The full visualisation can be seen here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2011/dec/07/london-riots-twitter. Have a look at the slides: slidesha.re/RTRTlift12 Lift Conference 24:59 <p>Farida Vis is the lead social media researcher on a team that studied 2.6M tweets sent during the UK riots. The project, 'Reading the Riots on Twitter' (led by Professor Rob Procter) is a collaboration with The Guardian newspaper and Twitter. At Lift12 she gave a detailed and documented account of what happened. You will see that the early conclusions governing bodies jumped to are not very accurate...</p> <p>The data visualisation documenting the rumours that circulated on Twitter at the time, built by The Guardian Interactive team (led by Alastair Dant) has recently won a Data Journalism Award for the category data visualisation and storytelling (national/international). The full visualisation can be seen here: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2011/dec/07/london-riots-twitter">http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2011/dec/07/london-riots-twitter</a>.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0px;">Have a look at the slides: slidesha.re/RTRTlift12</p><p><a href="http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/6401015"><img src="http://videos.liftconference.com/4959050/6401015/cb7b3438526a72901b739bb13ac60a8d/standard" width="645" height="362"/></a></p> data driven ethnography journalism lift12 london media open politics riots social society urban usage http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/4703987 <p>In this presentation about the "Villes Vivantes" project with the City of Geneva, Lift and Interactive Things, Benjamin Widerkehr describes how the huge quantity of data generated by mobile phone usage can be employed to visualize urban flows. Benjamin focuses on how to create meaningful stories based on these data.</p><p><a href="http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/4703987"><img src="http://videos.liftconference.com/4465641/4703987/14bd36df7fbcce15d744c0b49b1c0ae5/standard" width="645" height="362"/></a></p> http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/4703987 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:51:54 GMT Visualizing urban flows with mobile data In this presentation about the "Villes Vivantes" project with the City of Geneva, Lift and Interactive Things, Benjamin Widerkehr describes how the huge quantity of data generated by mobile phone usage can be employed to visualize urban flows. Benjamin focuses on how to create meaningful stories based on these data. In this presentation about the "Villes Vivantes" project with the City of Geneva, Lift and Interactive Things, Benjamin Widerkehr describes how the huge quantity of data generated by mobile phone usage can be employed to visualize urban flows. Benjamin focuses on how to create meaningful stories based on these data. Lift Conference 06:53 <p>In this presentation about the "Villes Vivantes" project with the City of Geneva, Lift and Interactive Things, Benjamin Widerkehr describes how the huge quantity of data generated by mobile phone usage can be employed to visualize urban flows. Benjamin focuses on how to create meaningful stories based on these data.</p><p><a href="http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/4703987"><img src="http://videos.liftconference.com/4465641/4703987/14bd36df7fbcce15d744c0b49b1c0ae5/standard" width="645" height="362"/></a></p> Benjamin City Geneva Interactive Things Widerkehr data lift12 mobile phone urban http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/4699918 <p>Over the past few years, there has an explosive growth in open data with significant uptake in government, research and elsewhere. Open data has the potential to transform society, government and the economy, from how we travel to work to how we decide to vote. But we<br /> have only just begun down this road, and the going, even so far, has not always been easy.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0px;">In his talk, Rufus Pollock introduces the idea of open data, explains how, and why, we are where we are today, and, finally, looks to the future of the rapidly evolving open data ecoystem.</p><p><a href="http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/4699918"><img src="http://videos.liftconference.com/4465687/4699918/a65b6af61af83c03c146260a268a3f78/standard" width="645" height="362"/></a></p> http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/4699918 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:39:02 GMT Open Data: How We Got Here and Where We're Going by Rufus Pollock Over the past few years, there has an explosive growth in open data with significant uptake in government, research and elsewhere. Open data has the potential to transform society, government and the economy, from how we travel to work to how we decide to vote. But we have only just begun down this road, and the going, even so far, has not always been easy. In his talk, Rufus Pollock introduces the idea of open data, explains how, and why, we are where we are today, and, finally, looks to the future of the rapidly evolving open data ecoystem. Over the past few years, there has an explosive growth in open data with significant uptake in government, research and elsewhere. Open data has the potential to transform society, government and the economy, from how we travel to work to how we decide to vote. But we have only just begun down this road, and the going, even so far, has not always been easy. In his talk, Rufus Pollock introduces the idea of open data, explains how, and why, we are where we are today, and, finally, looks to the future of the rapidly evolving open data ecoystem. Lift Conference 24:12 <p>Over the past few years, there has an explosive growth in open data with significant uptake in government, research and elsewhere. Open data has the potential to transform society, government and the economy, from how we travel to work to how we decide to vote. But we<br /> have only just begun down this road, and the going, even so far, has not always been easy.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0px;">In his talk, Rufus Pollock introduces the idea of open data, explains how, and why, we are where we are today, and, finally, looks to the future of the rapidly evolving open data ecoystem.</p><p><a href="http://videos.liftconference.com/photo/4699918"><img src="http://videos.liftconference.com/4465687/4699918/a65b6af61af83c03c146260a268a3f78/standard" width="645" height="362"/></a></p> data lift12 open stories