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Welcome to the Data Art Blog

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NewsTraces 1.0

NewsTracesNewsTraces explores BBC News headlines from the Americas since 2000. Entering a search displays all the matching news stories chronologically.

This is the first project that uses a new dataset of BBC News archive metadata. The source code and data for the project are available, so do let us know if you make anything new with them, and leave comments here.

To see the visualisation please visit the project page.


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TV Related Content

TV related contentIn this visualisation we have tried to imagine what kind of interfaces will be made possible with web enabled set top boxes like Canvas and Google TV.

To see the visualisation and read about how it was created please visit the project page.

Please let us know what you think of the visualisation using the comment form below.

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Open for business

We had a soft launch of the project at Xmas leading up to this more public launch now. Thanks to everyone involved. Please keep checking back as we will be releasing more material in the months to come leading up to November which is the official 2nd phase of the project.

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Flared Music

Flared Music Flared Music is a simple Flash visualisation which shows relationships between musicians as stored in the BBC Music / Musicbrainz database. It is intended to be both a useful means of graphically exploring this huge dataset, and also an example of how to write a visualisation application in Actionscript 3 using a BBC data API and the Prefuse Flare visualisation library.

To see the visualisation and read about how it was created please visit the project page.

Please let us know what you think of the visualisation using the comment form below.

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3d Documentary Explorer

3d explorerThis visualisation was developed for the Virtual Revolution series on BBC2. It's interesting from a data visualisation perspective for two reasons; it uses a video as it's data source and it uses a 3d interface.

To see the visualisation and read about how it was created please visit the project page.

Please let us know what you think of the visualisation using the comment form below.

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Welcome

Hello and welcome to the data art blog. This is a place where we will talk about our projects and encourage readers to post links to their own work.

We have launched the site with two initial visualisations. Each have their own blog entry and if you have any suggestions/comments regarding these you can find them below.

If you would like to see particular data sources or visualisations coming out of this project please contact us by email.

This blog doesn't require registration to participate but all comments will be moderated by a member of our team.

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Search Web

Search WebThis application shows the user how BBC search results are distributed across different sections of the site, and enables the use of a tree structure to navigate through pages on bbc.co.uk. To see the visualisation and read about how it was created please visit the project page. Please let us know what you think of the visualisation using the comment form below. We'd like to know if you've built something like this, seen anything similar or would like to see any modifications to this application.

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News Globe

Word Search 1We have just launched one of our first visualisations which allows the user to search BBC News stories and see the results plotted on a 3d globe.

To see the visualisation, read about how it was created and watch a video demo please visit the project page.

Please let us know what you think of the visualisation using the comment form below. We'd like to know if you've built something like this, seen anything similar or would like to see any modifications to this application.

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