i am the weather :: interestingness by sean salmon » data http://iamtheweather.com interestingness at the intersection of design, art &experience. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:48:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 data to hang on the christmas tree http://iamtheweather.com/2010/01/11/data-to-hang-on-the-christmas-tree/ http://iamtheweather.com/2010/01/11/data-to-hang-on-the-christmas-tree/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:42:54 +0000 sean http://iamtheweather.com/?p=1028 2FDA7E91-410F-4CBD-93B4-B5E08FB44C57.jpg

Personalized custom christmas tree ornaments made by Really Interesting Group for their friends with each friend’s own social network data. Snowman’s head is number is Twitter followers, length of drips from cloud is Dopplr data, horizontal red bars for number of tracks scrobbled monthly on last.fm and the blue one shows the aperatures used on photos posted to flickr. Friends without data on a particular network got a 404.

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Of course Really Interesting Group are the ones behind the excellent Newspaper Club.

More pictures and details over at russell davies: datadecs

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I love how I get a annual report of my, limited, travel. 2009 should have a bit more I hope.

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Above a picture of the sky and stars submitted to the astronomy.net group on flickr. Astrometry.net will analyze the photo and return the below interesting information about the sky you have photographed. Seriously amazing pattern matching.

astrometry.net says:

Hello, this is the blind astrometry solver. Your results are:
(RA, Dec) center:(56.7751, 24.1559) degrees

(RA, Dec) center (H:M:S, D:M:S):(03:47:6.024, +24:09:21.240)
Orientation:95.02 deg E of N

Pixel scale:1.96 arcsec/pixel

Parity:Reverse (“Left-handed”)
Field size :2.12 x 1.41 degrees

Your field contains:
The star Celaeno (16Tau)
The star Electra (17Tau)
The star 18Tau
The star Taygeta (19Tau)
The star Sterope I (21Tau)
The star Merope (23Tau)
The star ηTau
The star Atlas (27Tau)
The star Pleione (28Tau)
NGC 1432 / Maia nebula
NGC 1435 / Merope nebula

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If you would like to have other images solved, please submit them to the astrometry group.

Astrometry.net describes their project like this:

If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not know—or do not trust—then Astrometry.net is for you. Input an image and we’ll give you back astrometric calibration meta-data, plus lists of known objects falling inside the field of view.

The intersection of photography, data and crowdsourcing, with either the photography or the data or both will be an interesting space to watch.

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