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Dream Deep: Trippy Maps Reenvisioned by Google’s Artificial Neural Network

FaceApp and similar reality-warping applications are especially fun to use in ways their designers never intended. Along similar lines, Google's DeepDream (designed for photo manipulation) ...

Collecting Inspiration: 3 Must-See Data Artists & Designers at Eyeo 2017

Jenny Odell collects and organizes all kinds of things, from meticulously sorting digital finds on Google Maps to tracing the origins of everything she used, wore, ate or bought on one ...

US Megaregions: Algorithm Redefines Boundaries of Metropolitan Areas

A new geographical study of the United States reveals the functional boundaries of megapolises around the country, defining them by usage rather than arbitrary political borders. Unlike ...

Density Sensor: Real-Time Data Shows Which Places are Packed

Online reviews indicate how popular your favorite place is in general, but cannot tell you whether now is a good time to drop by or if you may be stuck in a crowd or waiting in line - this is ...

Sunny Disposition: Computer-Aided Skyscraper Casts No Shadow

With downtown densification usually comes a lack of light in surrounding spaces, leading one architecture firm to develop the world's first algorithm-driven strategy to allow a tower to fully ...

Urban Observatory: TED Co-Founder’s New Civic Data Platform

This new project brings a whole world's worth of metropolitan data to your fingertips via both an online application and an upcoming installation at the Smithsonian Museum, courtesy of TED ...

Ditch Your Car: Get From A to B Using Real-Time Transit Data

What if we could make alternative transportation ultimately faster, cheaper and more convenient than personally-owned cars, the dominant transport devices of the 20th Century? The sharing ...

Virtual & Reality: 15 New York City Data Visualizations

Data is much easier for most of us to process when it's presented in visual form, and these 15 infographics and visualizations give us a (literal) picture of New York City that would be hard to ...

City Evolution: Watch Urban Growth in 3D Visualizations

Watch Manhattan multiply and San Francisco soar into the sky in a series of growth animation videos that show the expansion of cities over more than a century. Created by Calgary-based real ...

Image Hacking: 40+ Glitch Art Photos, Paintings & Videos

Surreal, dreamlike and often haunting, databending creates digital or analog image errors for artistic effect. An art form in which corrupted files are either created or mimicked in photographs, ...

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