Pixelache 110311-Hintikka-Kari-A-Open-data-Network-esthetics

From Open Data to Network Esthetics Pixelache’11 / Pikseliähky’11 11.3.2011 Kari A. Hintikka [email_address]

Shortly about Kari A. Hintikka
Making PhD about the netcrowds in Sociology at University of Jyväskylä, Finland
with Antti Poikola and Petri Kola, a guide book about open data (2010) http://Julkinendata.fi - in the progress to translate in English
Internet researcher, concept and usability designer, senior foresighter
Occasional artist: industrial spaghetti western music http://ubiq.fi
nethunt (a) Twitter

Summary
Some basics and examples about the open data
Layering data: the more complex the more valuable?
Infographics - visualization is replacing text
An example how to easily layer personal network data from Facebook with Gephi

Open data
is a data that has been made both technically and legally available for reuse, like open source, also commercially
often refers to the public subset of government information which, at least the aim is, doesn’t harm privacy of individuals or cause security problems:
USA has been longstanding pioneer with open data
in Finland the government just suggested for forth-coming new parliament to open Finnish publicly produced data
often data which is normally (side) produced for some other purposes and functions and could be recycled
Tilannehuone.fi (Finnish emergency situations real-time on the map)
commercial example: freely usable customer data base of Amazon
crowdsourced open data: OpenStreetMap.org
Web APIs, sensors, trackers, Internet statistics - almost everywhere
Programmableweb.com, national data catalogues

Tilannehuone.fi: real-time emergency on Google Maps

FluTracker: ordinary people tracking H1N1 pandemia

Open data - example use cases
Civil society, transparency and democracy:
Tax Tree
Watchdog.net
MapLight.org - mixing voting and funding of Congress of USA
Daily life:
HAVARIA real-time emergency map for global travellers
public transport and navigation, prices of apartments
Fillarikanava.fi - collaboration of cyclists and Helsinki municipal
Business:
Amazon
Facebook
TouchGraph.com

Tax Tree - Veropuu (Peter Tattersall) in Apps4Dem competition 2009

Digital data as a raw material and a resource to refine
now (digital) data is a raw material, like any other commodities, like wheat, metals, etc.
open data can be freely mashup’ed:
layering, like putting data on the (Google) map, H1N1 observations
remixed, like Watchdog.net, showing public data of politicians
recycled, like
Ilkka Niiniluoto (1987):
data > information > (tieto) > knowledge > wisdom
Infographics and other data visualizations are replacing text articles
Information aesthetics: http://infosthetics.com/ (blog)

One of the best article in 2010 (would need 8-16 pages text to explain in article)

In certain context, raw data might look esthetic or as art:
© 2003 WARNER BROS. - U.S., CANADA, BAHAMAS & BERMUDA.2003 VILLAGE ROADSHOW FILMS (BVI) LTD - ALL OTHER TERRITORIES (ALL RIGHTS via Imdb.com

But normally it looks like this:

So how to recycle and remix open data to more esthetic?

Gephi - open source (social) network visualization tool
OS X, Linux, Windows
visual, easy-to-use graphical interface - a bit like Photoshop
Guidelines for importing personal network data from Facebook:
http://www.slideshare.net/sociomantic/facebook-network-analysis-using-gephi-3996673
Just follow ’em :) No need to understand anything about social network analysis tools

0: Raw data from Facebook: Netvizz App

1. Import Netvizz data set to Gephi
Network relationships in their rawest visual form
>data

2: Mash the mesh (Gephi autofigures and suggests structure)

3: Enhance top-notch nodes e.g. popular persons
More bigger node, more popular
>data>information

4: Enhance the tribes (automatic)
school friends form the past, ex-collagues, sub-cultures, secret guilds, relatives of ex-relationships
>data>information

5: Add the labels (names): who is who >data>information>knowledge

6: Analyzing the wholeness: which network is close which >data>information>knowledge>wisdom ?

Thank you!
kari . hintikka a gmail com
nethunt (a) Twitter

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