Interesting concept, in Venturebeat: A means to observe and compare data about major cities. And I hope visualizing related analytics. Sounds akin to work that was done with P&G's Business Sphere.TED co-founder Richard Saul Wurman’s Urban Observatory is now a virtual reality. [ I will look into this deeper and report more here ]
The Urban Observatory is a multi-media interactive exhibit culled from big data that is displayed on screens to let viewers compare and contrast data from the world’s largest cities. Fifty-five of the world’s largest metropolitan cities shared their data to create what Wurman is calling the globe’s first real public observatory.
The observatory is being unveiled today at the Esri User Conference in San Diego. Wurman produced the project with geographic information systems provider Esri. Early next year, in February 2015, the Urban Observatory will make its way to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC, where the exhibit will be permanently housed. .... "
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