AMD 411: Data Visualization

A "Boston Coastline: Future Past was a “walking data visualization” in which 30 participants traced a route from the Climate Change prediction of the city’s coastline to its history, as a way of physically understanding the future and past of a city changing at scales that are difficult to see and comprehend." (from artist's website)

In this GPS-based piece, "thematic sound content shifts with the changing elevation contours of the path system suggesting the vertical layers of a metaphoric core sample." (from artist's website)

"In the 1930s the federal government created redlining maps for almost every major American city. Mapping Inequality lets you explore these maps and the history of racial and ethnic discrimination in housing policy." (from website)