Saturday, September 17, 2011

Visualized: A school day as data

Hi Everyone,
I thought this was pretty cool -
Researchers managed to track social interactions between children in a school in France throughout one day. From the article: "Reconfigured as pulsing network maps and flows of color are the universal experiences of middle school: the between-class rush, playground cliques, snatched hallway conversation and the fifth-graders who are too cool for everyone else."

Enjoy!
YBT

1 comment:

Christopher Tunnard said...

This is great, Yael. I believe that the technology (RFID motion recognition) was developed at the MIT Media Lab, but they may have been part of a consortium. As the article infers, there are numerous potential uses for it.

Thanks for being the first to post.