https://github.com/Appsterdam/DataViz

CIRCA data visualization project
https://github.com/Appsterdam/DataViz

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CIRCA data visualization project

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Appsterdam/DataViz
• Owner: Appsterdam
• Created: 2012-05-21T11:09:49.000Z (over 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-21T22:44:46.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-09T12:05:37.399Z (7 months ago)
• Language: Ruby
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DataViz

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CIRCA data visualization project

**Project **

InnoViz: Visualizing Stories of App Innovation

**Theme**

Data analysis and data visualization

**Task**

Our goal is to understand the role of technology, the role of technology makers 

in the ecosystem and determine key dimensions of innovation. To gain that understanding 

we are going to collect and index data that will visualize the creativity, diversity and 

internationality of the mobile application cluster and will map the driving forces of the 

App Making Industry. With our findings we want to tackle the lack of empirical data on how 

technology and grassroots initiatives can steer innovation.

We expect that in December 2012, we will have created an inventory of data to showcase the 

dynamics of the Industry and examples of best practices. That kind of knowledge will be beneficial 

for the City, the stakeholders and the communities. 

**Theoretical Framework**

Blogs: 

[What is an app?](http://mur.mu.rs/?p=201)

[CIRCA Blog](http://circa-uva.tumblr.com/uva_aim_appsterdam) (more info

about the project)

Websites:

[Open Innovation Strategy and Policy

Group](https://sites.google.com/site/openinnovationplatform/home)

[Appsterdam](http://appsterdam.rs)

Articles: 

[Open Innovation as structural

capital](http://files.openinnovation-platform.eu/policydocs/unlocking_digital_future_final.pdf)

[A review of Edward Tufte’s “Beautiful

Evidence”](http://yuriweb.com/tufte/)

[Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with

Data](http://vis.stanford.edu/files/2010-Narrative-InfoVis.pdf)

[Data wars: everything explain to

everyone](http://www.denieuwereporter.nl/2010/01/data-wars-alles-uitleggen-aan-iedereen/)

[The database as a narrative form, but how do you tell the

story?](http://www.denieuwereporter.nl/2010/02/de-database-als-vertelvorm-maar-hoe-vertel-je-het-verhaal/)

Video:

[Steve Keil](http://thenextweb.com/conference/amsterdam/2012/talks/video/LOk_BiLfn2E), keynote at Next Web

[Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the EC for the Digital

Agenda](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa3YpIztu-g)

**Inspiration and examples**

Visualizations:

Interactive infographics

[Visualizing information flow in

science](http://well-formed.eigenfactor.org/radial.html)

[Newsmap](http://marumushi.com/projects/newsmap)

[Visual Complexity website](http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/) 

[http://infosthetics.com](http://infosthetics.com)/

[http://www.informationisbeautiful.net](http://www.informationisbeautiful.net)/

[visual complexity](http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/)

[Information is Beautiful](http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/)

[FlowingData](http://flowingdata.com/)

Video:

[Hans Rosling](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo)

[Gapminder.org](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax7yGMuH1iE)

[Chart Wars: the political power of data

visualization](http://infosthetics.com/archives/2010/01/chart_wars_the_political_power_of_data_visualization.html) 

[Interview with Manuel

Lima](http://digup.tv/index.php?rub=videos&item=70)

[Journalism in the Age of

Data](http://datajournalism.stanford.edu/index.html)

[NY Times

Visualization](http://visualjournalism.com/amanda-cox-in-denmark-for-new-media-days/2010/11/18/)

[Netherlands from above

trailer](http://www.vizualism.com/download/vpro/190-trailer-netherlandsfromabove)

**Project Objectives **

The project is developed under the framework of the **Creative

Industries Research Center Amsterdam** (CIRCA), department of

Humanities, **UvA**, coordinated by Prof. J. Simons and Dr. S. Olma. 

CIRCA collaborates with

Appsterdam ([appsterdam.rs](http://appsterdam.rs/)) and AIM for creating

a hard database of the App Industry and use visualization techniques to

provide insights on the data subsets generated. 

The database created will be handed to the MediaLAb students for further

data analysis, research and developing case-studies.

**Project Partners**

UvA

Appsterdam

AIM