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## dataCloud (2002)

by Gonzalo Garcia-Perate

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dataCloud is a data visualisation system that displays the weather conditions of all major cities across the globe simultaneously. The information is gathered from airports all over the world and updated several times a day.

It maps the weather conditions onto the city\\'s name. The type size relates to visibility, the color to temperature, the transparency to Humidity. They move with the speed and direction of their wind, the atmospheric pressure is applied as friction to the movement.

Each time dataCloud launches it loads a picture from one of the different locations worldwide. Users around the world submit the pictures.

dataCloud is based on my MA thesis research on interface design for dynamic information systems. It looks at the design of graphical user interfaces as the product of the interaction of a dynamic source of information with a generative system.

Through this process the data defines the design of ...

Tags: design Generative globalization Gonzalo Garcia-Perate information map interface Shockwave space Visual worldwide

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dataCloud is a data visualisation system that displays the weather conditions of all major cities across the globe simultaneously. The information is gathered from airports all over the world and updated several times a day.

It maps the weather conditions onto the city\\'s name. The type size relates to visibility, the color to temperature, the transparency to Humidity. They move with the speed and direction of their wind, the atmospheric pressure is applied as friction to the movement.

Each time dataCloud launches it loads a picture from one of the different locations worldwide. Users around the world submit the pictures.

dataCloud is based on my MA thesis research on interface design for dynamic information systems. It looks at the design of graphical user interfaces as the product of the interaction of a dynamic source of information with a generative system.

Through this process the data defines the design of the interface creating a dynamic \\"on-demand\\" visualisation of the information available. Through this visualisation the information interfaces itself, and the means by which we access it are no longer static nor choreographed but ultimately driven by the information, creating a highly flexible system.

###### Work metadata

- Year Created: 2002
- Submitted to ArtBase: Monday Dec 23rd, 2002
- Original Url: http://www.artificialtourism.com/
- Permalink: http://www.artificialtourism.com/
- Work Credits:
  - Gonzalo Garcia-Perate, creator

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